Defense, Public Security and Democracy

Recipients of Section Awards:

Alfred Stepan Lifetime Achievement Award in Defense, Public Security, and Democracy:

2023: Thomas Bruneau

2022: Bertha Garcia Gallegos

2021: David Mares

2020: José Manuel Ugarte

2019: David Pion-Berlin

2018: Alfred C. Stepan (posthumously)

2016: Rut Diamint

2015: J. Samuel Fitch

Best Article or Edited Volume Chapter by Section Member

2023: Eduardo Moncada (Barnard College, Columbia University), “Resisting Extortion: Victims,
Criminals, and States in Latin America”. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021

2022:  Rafael Martinez and Nicole Jenne for ""Domestic military missions in Latin America: Civil-Military Relations and the perpetuation of democratic deficits," published in the European Journal of International Security"

2021: Annette Idler for The Logic of Illicit Flows in Armed Conflict: Explaining Variation in Violent Non-state Group Interactions in Colombia, World Politics, 72 (3), 2020.

2020: Luis Schenoni for "Was the Malvinas/Falklands a Diversionary War? A Prospect-Theory Reinterpretation of Argentina's Decline" (with Sean Braniff & Jorge Battaglino), Published in 2019.

2018: Enrique Desmond Arias, for "Crime and Plural Orders in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil," Current Sociology, 65, no. 3 (May 2017): 448–465 (with Nicholas Barnes).

2017: Not Awarded

2016: Carlos Solar, for "Governance of Defense and Policy Making in Chile," Latin American Policy 6, no. 2 (December 2015): 205–225.

2015: Rafael Martínez, for "Subtypes of Coups d'état: Recent Transformations of a 17th Century Concept," Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals 108 (2014): 191–212.

2014: Maiah Jaskoski, for "Private Financing of the Military: A Local Political Economy Approach," Studies in Comparative International Development 48, no. 2 (June 2013): 172–195.

Best Paper Presented at LASA by Junior Scholar Section Member

2023: Not Awarded

2022: Not Awarded

2021: Not Awarded

2020: Lindsay Mayka for "The Power of Human Rights Frames in Urban Security: Lessons from Bogotá" at LASA 2019

2019: Eduardo Moncada, for "The Politics of Criminal Victimization: Pursuing and Resisting Power," at LASA 2018.

2018: Not Awarded

2017: Not Awarded

2016: Anjuli Ferreira-Fahlberg, for “When the Police Come to Town: Safety and Order in a Rio de Janeiro Militarized Community,” at LASA 2015.

2015: Not Awarded

2014: Natalia Vargas Palacios, for “The Democratic Insertion of Armed Forces.  The Process of Institutional Reforms in the Defense System; a compared proposal for measuring the quality of the democracy in the defense's partial regime,” at LASA 2013.

Travel Award for Graduate Student Section Member

2023: Sofía Duarte

2022: Pablo Navarro Urquiza

2021: Not Awarded

2020: Pablo Navarro Urquiza and Daniella Lilliu Atance

2019: Laura Iesue

2018: Jennifer Peirce

2013: Magdalena Defort

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