Contemporary Security Policy awards the Bernard Brodie Prize annually to the author(s) of an outstanding article published in the journal the previous year. The award is named after Dr Bernard Brodie (1918-1978), author of The Absolute Weapon (1946), Strategy in the Missile Age (1958) and War and Strategy (1973). Brodie’s ideas remain at the centre of security debates to this day. One of the first analysts to cross between official and academic environments, he pioneered the very model of civilian influence that Contemporary Security Policy represents. Contemporary Security Policy is honoured to acknowledge the permission of Brodie’s son, Dr Bruce R. Brodie, to use his father’s name.
The winner of the 2016 Bernard Brodie Prize is:
John Mitton, ‘Selling Schelling Short: Reputations and American Coercive Diplomacy after Syria’, December 2015.
This article was selected by a jury consisting of six members of the Editorial Board: Uday Bhaskar, Sarah Kreps, Jeffrey Lantis, Maria Mälksoo, Derek McDougall and Edward Rhodes. The jury selected the winner from a shortlist put together by the outgoing editors, Aaron Karp and Regina Karp, and the new editor, Hylke Dijkstra. This shortlist also included:
Seth Baum, ‘Winter-safe Deterrence: The Risk of Nuclear Winter and Its Challenge to Deterrence’, April 2015;
Richard Bitzinger, ‘Defense Industries in Asia and the Technonationalist Impulse’, December 2015;
Niklas Nováky, ‘Why so Soft? The European Union in Ukraine’, August 2015;
Patricia Shamai, ‘Name and Shame: Unravelling the Stigmatization of Weapons of Mass Destruction’, April 2015.
The previous winners of the Bernard Brodie Prize are:
Wyn Bowen and Matthew Moran, ‘Iran’s Nuclear Program: A Case Study in Hedging’, April 2014;
Nick Ritchie, ‘Valuing and Devaluing Nuclear Weapons’, April 2013;
Patrick M. Morgan, ‘The State of Deterrence in International Politics Today’, April 2012;
Sebastian Mayer, ‘Embedded Politics, Growing Informalization? How Nato and the EU Transform Provision of External Security’, August 2011;
Jeffrey Knopf, ‘The Fourth Wave in Deterrence Research’, April 2010;
Diane E. Davis, ‘Non-State Armed Actors, New Imagined Communities, and Shifting Patterns of Sovereignty and Insecurity in the Modern World’, August 2009.