The ISSS Annual Best Book Award recognizes a book on any aspect of security studies that excels in originality, significance, and rigor, published in the prior calendar year.
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Congratulations to the 2022 recipient of the ISSS Book Award, Barbara Elias, for Why Allies Rebel: Defiant Local Partners in Counterinsurgency Wars! See the previous recipients below.
Dara Kay Cohen
Philip Roessler
Rape During Civil War
Ethnice Politics and State Power in Africa
Stuart Kaufamn
Caitlin Talmadge
nastionalist Passions
The Dictator's Army: Battlefield Effectiveness in Authoritarian Regimes
Dara Kay Cohen | ChairHarvard Kennedy School
Bridget Coggins | MemberUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
Rupal Mehta | MemberUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln
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