Paulina Bren’s The Greengrocer and His TV: The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring is the winner of the 2012 Center for Austrian Studies Book Prize

Joshua Rovner’s Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence is winner of the International Security Studies Book Award given by the International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association

Alexander Thompson’s Channels of Power: The UN Security Council and U.S. Statecraft in Iraq is the winner of the J. David Singer Best Book Award given by the Midwest International Studies Association

Barbara Alpern Engel’s Breaking the Ties That Bound: The Politics of Marital Strife in Late Imperial Russia has received Honorable Mention for the Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History given by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Kristin Roth-Ey’s Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire That Lost the Cultural Cold War has received Honorable Mention for the Bruce Lincoln Book Prize given by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies