The Bernard Brodie Prize
Bernard Brodie lecturing, by Walter Sanders for Life Magazine, September 1946
Contemporary Security Policy is honored to announce the winner of the annual Bernard Brodie Prize, given for the outstanding article appearing in the journal the previous year. The Brodie Prize for the best article of 2012 goes to:
Patrick Morgan, The State of Deterrence in International Politics Today, April 2012. He is Tierney Chair of Peace and Conflict at the University of California, Irvine.
The award is named for 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 model of civilian influence that CSP represents.
The other nominees for the 2012 prize were:
- Alan Bloomfield, Time to Move On: Reconceptualizing the Strategic Culture Debate, December 2012
- Stuart Croft, Constructing Ontological Insecurity: The Insecuritzation of Britain's Muslims, August 2012
- Sean Kay, Ontological Security and Peace-Building in Northern Ireland, August 2012
- Ritu Mathur, Practices of Legalization in Arms Control and Disarmament: The ICRC, CCW and Landmines, December 2012
This is the fourth Bernard Brodie prize. Previous awards went to Sebastian Mayer of the University of Bremen for "Embedded politics, growing informalization? How Nato and the EU transform provision of external security", August 2011, Jeffrey W. Knopf of the Monterey Institute of International Studies for "The Fourth Wave in Deterrence Research", April 2010, and Diane E. Davis of MIT for her article, "Non-State Armed Actors, New Imagined Communities, and Shifting Patterns of Sovereignty and Insecurity in the Modern World", August 2009.