The PIPC Graduate Paper Student Paper Award
The PIPC organizers of the Pacific International Politics Conference are pleased to announce the PIPC Graduate Student Paper Award. All graduate students presenting a paper or poster at the 2025 PIPC are eligible. However, if your co-author is a faculty member, you are not eligible. Regardless of whether you will present a poster or a paper, you must provide a full paper (up to 10,000 words) to be considered.
Winners
2025: Arthur Shin (Graduate Student at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore), "Diversified Balancing: How External Security Threats Drive Arms Supplier Diversification."
The PSS(I) Award
The PIPC organizers are pleased to announce the Peace Science Society (International) Award. Professor Glenn Palmer, the executive director of the PSS(I), generously agreed to support an award for the best graduate student paper, the award winner will receive an up to $2000 travel grant to attend the 2019 Peace Science meeting, to be held November 7-9 in Manhattan, Kansas. All graduate students presenting a paper or poster at PIPC are eligible. However, if your co-author is a faculty member, you are not eligible. Regardless of whether you will present a poster or a paper, you must provide a full paper (up to 10,000 words) to be considered. You are required to write an e-mail to notify us your application after submitting your paper through Dropbox. The paper was deadline is June 13, 2019 (Japan Time) and is now closed, please check back for future updates.
Winners
2017: Marina Pavlova, (Ph.D. candidate at Hertie School of Governance, Berlin). "Financial Crises and Political Turnover in Autocracies."
2018: Lachlan McNamee, (Ph.D. candidate at Department of Political Science, Stanford University). "Demographic Engineering and International
Conflict: Evidence from China and the Former USSR."
2018: Nicole Wu, (Ph.D. cadidate at Department of Political Science, University of Michigan). "Misattributed Blame? Attitudes Towards Globalization in the Age of Automation."
2019: Michael Masterson, (Ph.D. candidate at Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison). "Humiliation and International Conflict."