Book on ’political self-sacrifice’ wins 2014 Sussex International Theory Prize

Book on 'political self-sacrifice' wins 2014 Sussex International Theory Prize. A book on forms of 'political self-sacrifice' - from suicide bombings to civil disobedience - is this year's winner of an annual prize awarded by the University's Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT). Political Self-Sacrifice: Agency, body and emotion in international relations , by Professor K. M. Fierke from the University of St Andrews,examines a range of forms of political self-sacrifice, including hunger strikes, self-burning and non-violent martyrdom. Published byCambridge University Press in 2013, it is the 2014 winner of the Sussex International Theory Prize , which CAIT awards annually for the best piece of innovative theoretical research in international relations published in book form in the previous year. This is the third year of the Prize, which 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.