| International Relations Awards 1996-2006 | |||
| YEAR | AWARD | NAME | THESIS | 
| 1996 | Best Thesis | Irene Shen '96 | China and the South China Sea Flashpoint: Challenges to Asia's Regional Peace | 
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 | Best Overall | Ann Teranishi '96 | 
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| 1997 | Best Thesis | Valerie Makino '97 | Disclaiming the Conventional Views of Bosnian Peace: The Historical Evolution of Social Conflict and Its Subsequent Distortion in a Contemporary Conflict | 
| 1998 | Best Thesis | Jennifer Rotman '98 | Individual and Organizational Responses to Domestic Violence in Mexican Border Maquiladora Communities | 
| 1999 | Best Thesis | Kristi O'Malley '99 | The Centrifugal Challenges to Russian Federalism: Is Disintegration Inevitable? | 
| 2001 | Best Thesis | Mariana Sousa '01 | Income Inequality as a Bottleneck of Brazil's Future Development | 
| 2002 | Best Thesis | Zeenat Basrai '02 | The Power of Working Women | 
| 2003 | Best Thesis | Jessica Garcia '03 | The Drug War in Colombia: Back to the Basics | 
| 2004 | Best Thesis | Richard Helke '04 | Strange Exchange: The Effects of Nuclear Weapons on Low-Intensity Conflicts | 
| 2005 | Best Thesis | Lauren Weeth '05 | Democracy and Sacredness in Morocco: Preserving a Monarch in Pursuit of Modernization | 
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 | Best Overall | Emily Penner '05 | 
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