FACULTY AWARD: Yarhi-Milo honored for book on international relations

By the Office of Communications on March 8, 2016, 11:30 a.m.

Keren Yarhi-Milo, an assistant professor of politics and international affairs, has been awarded the Edgar S. Furniss Book Award by the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at Ohio State University for her book "Knowing the Adversary: Leaders, Intelligence, and Assessment of Intentions in International Relations." The award commemorates the founding director of the Mershon Center and is given annually to an author whose first book makes an exceptional contribution to the study of national and international security.

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