Ohio State is in the process of revising websites and program materials to accurately reflect compliance with the law. While this work occurs, language referencing protected class status or other activities prohibited by Ohio Senate Bill 1 may still appear in some places. However, all programs and activities are being administered in compliance with federal and state law.

Previous Furniss Winners

 

YearWinnerBook
2023Carly Goodman Dreamland: America’s Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction (University of North Carolina Press, 2023)
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)