Previous Winners

2008
Lorenz M. Lüthi, The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World (Princeton University Press)

2007
Erin K. Jenne, Ethnic Bargaining: The Paradox of Minority Empowerment (Cornell University Press).

2006
Jacques E.C. Hymans, The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation: Identity, Emotions, and Foreign Policy (Cambridge University Press).

2005
Victoria Tin-bor Hui, War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press).

2004
Benjamin Valentino, Final Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the Twentieth Century (Cornell University Press).

2003
Timothy W. Crawford, Pivotal Deterrence: Third-Party Statecraft and the Pursuit of Peace (Cornell University Press).

2002
Matthew Connelly, A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria’s Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era (Oxford University Press).

2001
Kenneth A. Schultz, Democracy and Coercive Diplomacy (Cambridge University Press).

2000
Robert D. English, Russia and the Idea of the West: Gorbachev, Intellectuals, and the End of the Cold War (Columbia University Press).

1999
Cecelia Lynch, Beyond Appeasement: Interpreting Interwar Peace Movements in World Politics (Cornell University Press).

1998 (co-winners)
Lars Erik Cederman, Emergent Actors in World Politics: How States and Nations Develop and Dissolve (Princeton University Press).
Elizabeth Kier, Imagining War: French and British Military Doctrine between the Wars (Princeton University Press).

1997
Jonathan Mercer, Reputation and International Politics (Cornell University Press).

1996
Audie Klotz, Norms in International Relations: The Struggle Against Apartheid (Cornell University Press).

1995
James Goldgeier, Leadership Style and Soviet Foreign Policy (Johns Hopkins University Press).

1994
David Welch, Justice and the Genesis of War (Cambridge University Press).

1993
Michael Brown, Flying Blind: The Politics of the U.S. Strategic Bomber Program (Cornell University Press).

1992
Stephen Peter Rosen, Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military (Cornell University Press).

1991
Lt. Col. Kenneth Allard, Command, Control, and The Common Defense (Yale University Press).

1989
Aaron L. Friedberg, The Weary Titan: Britain and the Experience of Relative Decline, 1895-1905 (Princeton University Press).

1988
Stephen M. Walt, The Origins of Alliances (Cornell University Press).

1987
Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr., The Army and Vietnam (John Hopkins University Press).

1986
Bruce G. Blair, Strategic Command and Control (Brookings Institution).

1984
Barry R. Posen, The Sources of Military Doctrine (Cornell University Press).

1983
John J. Mearsheimer, Conventional Deterrence (Cornell University Press).

1982
Harry G. Summers, On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War (Presido Press).