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The Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT), a Research Centre based in the Global School at the Â鶹´«Ã½ÉçÇøÈë¿Ú, are pleased to announce the 2025 Sussex International Theory Prize winner and honourable mention. 

The CAIT book award panel selected the following book for the 2025 Sussex International Theory Prize:

Patrick Quinton-Brown -

and the following book earned an honourable mention from the CAIT book award panel:

Rita Abrahamsen, Jean-François Drolet, Michael C. Williams, Srdjan Vucetic, Karin Narita, and Alexandra Gheciu -

A special lecture featuring the winner will take place in the Spring of 2026, with further details to be announced on the CAIT website in due course.

The award panel's statements on the two books are below:

Intervention before Interventionism: A Global Genealogy captures international politics at a critical juncture. It seems that arguments for liberal interventionism that have dominated foreign-policy making debates and academic discourses in International Relations for the last two to three decades are in decline, while debates about state sovereignty, borders, and non-intervention, as well as a sharp distinction about domestic and international politics are on the rise again. In Intervention before Interventionism, Patrick Quinton-Brown not only provides a comprehensive historical account on why interventionism was an intellectual and empirical failed attempt that was clouded in liberal ideology – and therefore could not understand the limits of a post-Second World War international society and the role of the Global South – but it also offers an epistemological reconsideration of questions of intervention and non-intervention. His book achieves the latter through a rich genealogy of intervention since the end of the Second World War. By focusing on non-Western contestations of Western-dominated order, particularly in the Non-Aligned Movement and the Bandung Conference, he illustrates institutional change in and through decolonisation and provides a fresh conceptual roadmap for understanding dilemmas of intervention and non-intervention in the twenty-first century. 

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World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and Global Order provides a timely and important intervention in understanding the global rise of far-right political parties and movements, one of the most daunting political dynamics of the twenty-first century. Providing the first analysis of their rise and global interconnectedness, its authors Rita Abrahamsen, Jean-François Drolet, Michael C. Williams, Srdjan Vucetic, Karin Narita, and Alexandra Gheciu not only trace the intellectual roots of the global radical Right, but they also demonstrate that their global cooperation is not accidental. Rather, their cooperation has to be conceived of as the conscious attempt to launch a counter-hegemonic struggle against globalisation and the liberal world order. Having been inspired by the work of Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau, the authors show in World of the Right that despite ideological and thematic differences, a radical Right has emerged that crosses national boundaries to an extent that it seems to have irrevocable effects on present and future world politics. 

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