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 2018 Bernard Brodie Prize is exceptionally awarded to two winners:
Betcy Jose, “Not completely the new normal: How Human Rights Watch tried to suppress the targeted killing norm,” August 2017;
Martin Senn and Jodok Troy, “The transformation of targeted killing and international order,” August 2017.
These articles were selected by a jury consisting of six members of the Editorial Board: Stephanie Hofmann, Aaron Karp, Maria Mälksoo, Derek McDougall, Rajesh Rajagopalan, and Edward Rhodes. The jury selected the winner from a shortlist put together by the Editor-in-Chief Hylke Dijkstra. This shortlist included:
Stephan Frühling and Andrew O’Neil, “Nuclear weapons, the United States and alliances in Europe and Asia: Toward an institutional perspective,” April 2017;
Betcy Jose, “Not completely the new normal: How Human Rights Watch tried to suppress the targeted killing norm,” August 2017;
Daniel J. Milton, “Dangerous work: Terrorism against U.S. diplomats,” December 2017;
Jaganath Sankaran and Bryan L. Fearey, “Missile defense and strategic stability: Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) in South Korea,” December 2017;
Martin Senn and Jodok Troy, “The transformation of targeted killing and international order,” August 2017.
The Previous Winners of the Bernard Brodie Prize were:
Trine Flockhart, “The coming multi-order world,” April 2016;
John Mitton, “Selling Schelling Short: Reputations and American Coercive Diplomacy after Syria,” December 2015;
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.