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Each year, the International Relations Program awards two senior thesis prizes:
The Norman D. Palmer Prize recognizes the best undergraduate thesis. In making its selection, the prize committee evaluates all aspects of the thesis from the importance of the initial thesis question, the strength of the research design, the quality of the research, to the quality of the writing and presentation.
The Director's Prize for Exceptional Creativity in the Senior Thesis was newly established in 2007 to recognize unusual creativity in the conception, use of theory, empirical approach, analytical insight, and/or presentation. The award is meant to reward prudent risk taking in the senior thesis research.
| 2006 | Neil F. Rudisill | Absorbing Muslim Minorities in Britain and France: A Comparative Study of Integrationist and Assimilation |
| 2005 | Maksim A. Piskunov | Commanding Growth or Your Friendly Developmental Dictatorship: Relating Political Structures, Institutions and Economic Development |
| 2004 | Rachael A. Martin | Coyotes, Pateros, Polleros, Oh My! Migrant Smuggling at the U.S. Mexico Border |
| 2003 | Daniel Erlich Schmerin | The Poor Man's Strategic Weapon: The Rise of Palestinian Suicide Bombings |
| 2002 | Stefanie A. Magner | Actor Preferences, Domestic Politics and Cohabitation: The French Decision to Resume Nuclear Testing in 1995 |
| 2001 | Isabel E. Rioja-Scott | International Organizations and Democratization: NATO's Role in the Spanish Transition to Democracy |
| 2000 | Kristopher A. De Leon | Electronic Commerce: The Evolution in US-Japan Relations |
| 1999 | Martin Hrivnak | The Rich Man's Atom Bomb?: Nuclear States and Biological Warfare |
| 1998 | Aaron Kotok | |
| 1997 | Job Campbell | Interdependence and Decentralization: Dynamics of Center-Local Relations in the People's Republic of China |
| 1996 | Jessica L. Hun | Neo-Authoritarianism & Political Legitimacy: China's Struggle with Economic Reforms |
| 1995 | David Craig Brown | Revolt Against Revolution: A Study on Rebellion Dynamics |
| 1994 | Benjamin M. Cukier | Political Origins of International Bank Regulation |
| 1993 | Joanna Dziubak | The Role of Law in European Integration: Bridging the Gap Between International Relations and Legal Theory |
| 1992 | Gayle D. Meyers | Modeling Peace Conferences: An Application of Game Theory to the Search for Peace in the Middle East |
| 1991 | Randy Karl Rethemeyer | Institutional Bargaining and the Formation of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Council |
| 1990 | Suzanne Maloney | The Linchpin Strategy: How the Soviets Targeted Women as a Revolutionary Class in Afghanistan |
| 2007 | Jesse Schreger | Globalization, the Lebanese Diaspora, and the Funding of Hezbollah |
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Maintained by: Tomoharu Nishino Last Modified: November, 2007 |