2014 Sussex International Theory Prize winner announced

2014 Sussex International Theory Prize winner announced The Centre for Advanced International Theory is pleased to announce that the 2014 Sussex International Theory Prize has been awarded to K. M. Fierke (University of St. Andrews) for her book, Political Self-Sacrifice: Agency, Body and Emotion in International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2013). The Sussex International Theory Prize is awarded annually each autumn for the best piece of innovative theoretical research in International Relations published in book form in the previous year and aims to value outstanding innovative theoretical research in International Relations. This is the third year of the Prize which is organised by the Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) in the Department of International Relations, within the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex The prize is judged by the CAIT Prize Committee and sponsored by Cambridge University Press. The judges said: " At a time when suicide terrorism is widely considered as a new challenge arising out of political Islam, Fierke shows that political self-sacrifice has been a common response to foreign interference across cultures and religions with a much longer historical lineage. As a weapon of the weak, political self-sacrifice uses the body to give voice to the grievances of oppressed populations, and signals their resistance to their diminished or lost 'sovereignty', creating in this way a 'warden's dilemma' for the oppressor.