Year	Faculty Name	Book Title
2015	Jesse Driscoll	Warlords and Coalition Politics in Post-Soviet States (Cambridge University Press)
2014	Keren Yarhi-Milo	Knowing the Adversary: Leaders, Intelligence, and Assessment of Intentions in International Relations (Princeton University Press)
2013	Jacob Shapiro	The Terrorist’s Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations (Princeton University Press)
2012	Boaz Atzili	Good Fences, Bad Neighbors: Border Fixity and International Conflict (University of Chicago Press)
2011	Joshua Rovner	Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence (Cornell University Press)
2010	Michael Horowitz	The Diffusion of Military Power: Causes and Consequences for International Politics (Princeton University Press)
2009	Christine Jojarth	Crime, War, and Global Trafficking: Designing International Cooperation (Cambridge University Press)
2009	Elizabeth Stanley	Paths to Peace: Domestic Coalition Shifts, War Termination and the Korean War (Stanford University Press)
2008	Lorenz Lüthi	The Sino-Soviet Split, 1956-1966: The Cold War in the Communist World (Princeton University Press, 2008),
2007	Erin Jenne	Ethnic Bargaining: The Paradox of Minority Empowerment (Cornell University Press)
2006	Jacques 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	Lars Erik Cederman	Emergent Actors in World Politics: How States and Nations Develop and Dissolve (Princeton University Press)
1998	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: Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev (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: Redefining the Nuclear Threat (Brookings Institution Press)
1984	Barry R. Posen	The Sources of Military Doctrine: France, Britain, and Germany Between the World Wars (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 (Presidio Press)