Previous Furniss Winners

Furniss Award Previous Winners

YearWinnerBook
2022Adam B. LernerFrom the Ashes of History: Collective Trauma and the Making of International Politics (Oxford University Press)
2021Rush DoshiThe Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order (Oxford University Press)
2020Jason Lyall Divided Armies: Inequality and Battlefield Performance in Modern War (Princeton University Press)
2019Dmitry ChernobrovPublic Perception of International Crises: Identity, Ontological Security and Self-Affirmation (Rowman & Littlefield International)
2018Michael Cotey MorganThe Final Act: The Helsinki Accords and the Transformation of the Cold War (Princeton University Press)
2017Aisha AhmadJihad & Co.: Black Markets and Islamist Power (Oxford University Press)
2016Laura MadokoroElusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War (Harvard University Press)
2015Jesse DriscollWarlords and Coalition Politics in Post-Soviet States (Cambridge University Press)
2014Keren Yarhi-MiloKnowing the Adversary: Leaders, Intelligence, and Assessment of Intentions in International Relations (Princeton University Press)
2013Jacob ShapiroThe Terrorist’s Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations (Princeton University Press)
2012Boaz AtziliGood Fences, Bad Neighbors: Border Fixity and International Conflict (University of Chicago Press)
2011Joshua RovnerFixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence (Cornell University Press)
2010Michael HorowitzThe Diffusion of Military Power: Causes and Consequences for International Politics (Princeton University Press)
2009Christine JojarthCrime, War, and Global Trafficking: Designing International Cooperation (Cambridge University Press)
2009Elizabeth StanleyPaths to Peace: Domestic Coalition Shifts, War Termination and the Korean War (Stanford University Press)
2008Lorenz LüthiThe Sino-Soviet Split, 1956-1966: The Cold War in the Communist World (Princeton University Press, 2008),
2007Erin JenneEthnic Bargaining: The Paradox of Minority Empowerment (Cornell University Press)
2006Jacques HymansThe Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation: Identity, Emotions, and Foreign Policy (Cambridge University Press)
2005Victoria Tin-Bor HuiWar and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press)
2004Benjamin ValentinoFinal Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the Twentieth Century (Cornell University Press)
2003Timothy W. CrawfordPivotal Deterrence: Third-Party Statecraft and the Pursuit of Peace (Cornell University Press)
2002Matthew ConnellyA Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria’s Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era (Oxford University Press)
2001Kenneth A. SchultzDemocracy and Coercive Diplomacy (Cambridge University Press)
2000Robert D. EnglishRussia and the Idea of the West: Gorbachev, Intellectuals, and the End of the Cold War (Columbia University Press)
1999Cecelia LynchBeyond Appeasement: Interpreting Interwar Peace Movements in World Politics (Cornell University Press)
1998Lars Erik CedermanEmergent Actors in World Politics: How States and Nations Develop and Dissolve (Princeton University Press)
1998Elizabeth KierImagining War: French and British Military Doctrine between the Wars (Princeton University Press)
1997Jonathan MercerReputation and International Politics (Cornell University Press)
1996Audie KlotzNorms in International Relations: The Struggle Against Apartheid (Cornell University Press)
1995James GoldgeierLeadership Style and Soviet Foreign Policy: Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev (Johns Hopkins University Press)
1994David WelchJustice and the Genesis of War (Cambridge University Press)
1993Michael BrownFlying Blind: The Politics of the U.S. Strategic Bomber Program (Cornell University Press)
1992Stephen Peter RosenWinning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military (Cornell University Press)
1991Lt. Col. Kenneth AllardCommand, Control, and The Common Defense (Yale University Press)
1989Aaron L. FriedbergThe Weary Titan: Britain and the Experience of Relative Decline, 1895-1905 (Princeton University Press)
1988Stephen M. WaltThe Origins of Alliances (Cornell University Press)
1987Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr.The Army and Vietnam (John Hopkins University Press)
1986Bruce G. BlairStrategic Command and Control: Redefining the Nuclear Threat (Brookings Institution Press)
1984Barry R. PosenThe Sources of Military Doctrine: France, Britain, and Germany Between the World Wars (Cornell University Press)
1983John J. MearsheimerConventional Deterrence (Cornell University Press)
1982Harry G. SummersOn Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War (Presidio Press)