The Carl Beck Award, established in 1980, is presented on an annual basis to a graduate student for his or her paper in the field of International Studies. Carl Beck was aware that the field of international relations faced difficult new challenges. To respond to those challenges it must be adaptive and innovative, open to new ideas, perspectives and approaches. The Committee therefore looks for original papers that deal with traditional concerns in new and interesting ways or with emergent international conditions and problems.
About the Award:- A $500.00 (USD) prize is awarded from the ISA General Account
- The three Member Committee is appointed by the ISA President with the concurrency of the Governing Council; Members serve two-year terms
- The Committee Chair is responsible for notifying the Recipient of the Award and encouraging the Recipient to attend the Annual Convention at which the Award is to be presented so as to receive the Award in person.
- To be eligible for consideration for the Carl Beck Award a paper must be the work of a full-time or part-time graduate student enrolled in a formal degree program at an established college or university. There is no restriction on the location of the institution. Jointly-authored papers are not eligible.
- Dissertations are not eligible for consideration but portions of an appropriate length (up to forty pages, double-spaced) will be accepted.A paper must be placed in nomination by a member of ISA. The letter of nomination shall explain why the member believes the paper has special merit and deserves consideration for the Carl Beck Award. The letter of nomination and the manuscript may be submitted by e-mail to the Chair of the Award Committee. The letter of nomination may be sent in an e-mail or as an attached document and the manuscript as a PDF file attachment.
- Any paper that has been previously published or submitted for publication is ineligible.
- Winners receive a $500 cash award, official plaque, and will have their paper posted on the ISA website, papers should be sent to isa@u.arizona.edu as a Word or PDF file.
- Application Deadline: May 31st.
COMMITTEE:
Renske Doorenspleet
CHAIR, FEB 2009 - APR 2012
Centre for Studies in Democratization
University of Warwick
renske.doorenspleet@warwick.ac.uk
Wolfgang Wagner
MEMBER, MAR 2008 - FEB 2010
Department of Political Science
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
wm.wagner@fsw.vu.nl
Kelly Kadera
MEMBER, MAR 2008 - FEB 2010
Department of Political Science
University of Iowa
kelly-kadera@uiowa.edu
Award Recipients :
2009: Michael Beckley, Columbia University, "Material Preponderance and Military Power"
2008: No award
2007: Shelley L. Hurt, The New School for Social Research, "Patent Law, Biodefense, and the National Security State, 1945-1972" (PDF).
2006: Idean Salehyan, University of California, San Diego, "Transnational Rebels: Neighboring States As Sanctuary for Rebel Groups" (PDF).
2005: Shuhei Kurizaki, UCLA, "Efficient Secrecy: Public Versus Private Threats in Crisis Diplomacy" (PDF)
2004: No award
2003: Kristopher W. Ramsay, University of Rochester, "Crisis Bargaining and Representative Democracy" (PDF)
2002: Carolyn Lloyd, University of Montreal, "Knowledge and the Emerging Global Small Arms Control Regime: Where There Is No Vision, the People Perish"
2001: No award
2000: Nita Rudra, University of Southern California.
1999: No award
1998: No award
1997: Renske Doorenspleet, University of Leiden, "Political Democracy: A Cross National Quantitative Analysis of Modernization and Dependency Theories"
1996: Bear Braumoeller, University of Michigan, "Deadly Doves? Liberalism, Nationalism, Domestic Structure, and the Democratic Peace in Soviet Successor States"
1995: Yukiko Koga, Syracuse University, "In Search of a People’s Space in IR/IPE Theory: Reintroducing Dialectic Ontology and Social Identity"
1994: Erik Gartzke, University of Iowa, "Congress and Back Seat Driving: Modeling the War Powers Resolution with an Information Theory of Delegation"
1993: Robert Latham, New School for Social Research, "Liberal Capitalism as an International System: Europe and the World"
1992: Lizbeth Barnard, Tufts University, "Beyond Mediation: Third Party Consultation in International Conflict Resolution"
1991: No award
1990: Patrick Regan, University of Michigan
1989: Jeffrey William Knopf
1988: No award
1987: Marie Henehen, Rutgers University, "A Quantitative Analysis of Disagreement on Foreign Policy in the U.S. Senate"
1986: Carolyn Rhodes-Jones, Utah State University, "Reciprocity and Cooperation in the GATT Regime"
1985: Lev Gonick, York University, "Constraints of the World Economy on National Political Development: 1948-1973"
1984: No award
1983: T. Clifton Morgan, University of Texas-Austin, "The Effects of War on the Economic Productivity of Nations in the Twentieth Century"
1982: Theodore Koontz, Princeton University, "A Public Policy Case for Permitting Selective Conscientious Objection"
