Announcing AWC Article Prize Winners

We are proud to announce our winners of the AWC Article Prizes for the best research articles and policy papers:
 
Winners of the Best Research Article on U.S. Foreign Policy and Grand Strategy are Andrea Gilli and Mauro Gilli for their paper, “Why China Has not Caught Up Yet: Military-Technological Superiority and the Limits of Limitation, Reverse Engineering, and Cyber Espionage,” which appeared in International Security.
 
Andrea Gilli is a Researcher in Military Affairs at the NATO Defense College in Rome, Italy. He has a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute in Fielose, Italy, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University, at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, and at the Center for Security Studies of Metropolitan University Prague.
 
Mauro Gilli is a Senior Researcher in Military Technology and International Security at the Center for Security Studies of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. He has a PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Dickey Center for International Understanding of Dartmouth College. 
 
Runner-up for the Best Research Article on U.S. Foreign Policy and Grand Strategy is Rachel Myrick for her article, “Why So Secretive? Unpacking Public Attitudes toward Secrecy and Success in US Foreign Policy” appearing in the Journal of Politics, nominated by Ala’ Alrababa’h.
 
Rachel Myrick is an assistant research professor at the Department of Political Science at Duke University and a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. Her research explores how partisan polarization affects foreign policy making in democratic states, with an emphasis on its implications for US national security policy. 
 
Winner of the Best Policy Article on U.S. Foreign Policy and Grand Strategy is Oriana Mastro for her article, “The Stealth Superpower: How China Hid Its Global Ambitions” appearing in Foreign Affairs.
 
Oriana Skylar Mastro is a Center Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University where her research focuses on Chinese military and security policy, Asia-Pacific security issues, war termination, and coercive diplomacy. She is also Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and continues to serve in the United States Air Force Reserve for which she works as a Strategic planner at INDOPACOM J5.