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 center 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 honored to acknowledge the permission of Brodie's son, Dr Bruce R. Brodie, to use his father's name.
The winner of the 2017 Bernard Brodie Prize is:
Trine Flockhart, “The coming multi-order world,” April 2016.
This article was selected by a jury consisting of five members of the Editorial Board: Uday Bhaskar, David Haglund, Aaron Karp, Derek McDougall, and Edward Rhodes. The jury selected the winner from a shortlist put together by the Editor-in-Chief Hylke Dijkstra. This shortlist also included:
Florian Böller & Sebastian Werle, “Fencing the bear? Explaining US foreign policy towards Russian interventions,” December 2016;
Stephen F. Burgess, “Rising bipolarity in the South China Sea: the American rebalance to Asia and China’s expansion,” April 2016;
Ogen S. Goldman & Uriel Abulof, “Democracy for the rescue-of dictators? The role of regime type in civil war interventions,” December 2016;
Eric Sangar, “The pitfalls of learning from historical experience: the British Army’s debate on useful lessons for the war in Afghanistan,” August 2016.
The previous winners of the Bernard Brodie Prize are:
John Mitton, “Selling Schelling Short: Reputations and American Coercive Diplomacy after Syria,” December 2015;
Wyn Bowen & 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.