Lifetime Achievement Award

The O’Brien Notre Dame International Security Center's (ONDISC) Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of international security affairs, broadly defined. Such contributions can come from a policy-engaged scholar, like our first two awardees, or a current or former practitioner who consistently reflects on his or her experience from a deep historical or a broad conceptual perspective. In April 2019, in celebration of our center’s tenth anniversary, the faculty, fellows, and students of ONDISC were pleased to award Barry Posen, Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director of the Security Studies Program at MIT, with the first ONDISC Lifetime Achievement Award. In December 2023, ONDISC presented its second Lifetime Achievement Award to Robert Art, Christian A. Herter Professor of International Relations at Brandeis University.

• Learn more about ONDISC's inaugural lifetime achievement award winner, Barry Posen.
• Learn more about ONDISC's second lifetime achievement award winner, Robert Art.
• Learn more about ONDISC's third lifetime achievement award winner, Dick Betts.

To nominate future recipients, contact ONDISC Director Michael Desch