Press Release
from Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Paul Staniland has been selected as the third annual winner of the Peter Katzenstein Book Prize for Outstanding First Book in International Relations, Comparative Politics, or Political Economy for Networks of Rebellion: Explaining Insurgent Cohesion and Collapse (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2014). The book is based on his doctoral dissertation, upon which he worked during his fellowship year with the International Security Program and Intrastate Conflict Program at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs in 2008–2009.
Staniland, who received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he co-directs the Program on International Security Policy. He is the co-founder of the Program on Political Violence.
The award was established in honor of Professor Peter Katzenstein of Cornell University by his colleagues, friends, and former students.