It's a Major Award!

Congratulations to Dr. Patricia Sullivan on receiving the Peace Science Society’s 2006 Walter Isard Dissertation Award for her thesis on “The Utility of Force: War Aims and Asymmetric Outcomes.” Her dissertation was supervised by Scott Gartner, Bob Jackman, and Jo Andrews at the University of California-Davis.

The Walter Isard Award for the Best Dissertation in Peace Science is given every two years. The winner is selected on the basis of the importance and scientific significance of the dissertation with respect to the field of peace science and its contribution to the understanding of international behavior more generally. The previous two recipients of the Isard Award are also on faculty with the Department of International Affairs: Dr. Jaroslav Tir (2002) and Dr. Stephen Shellman (2004).