Adam B. Lerner, a PhD candidate at the Centre of Development Studies, was awarded the 2018 Northedge Prize from Millennium: Journal of International Studies for his essay 'The Uses and Abuses of Victimhood Nationalism in International Politics.' The essay establishes a theoretical framework for comparative analyses of invocations of victimhood in international politics. It then applies this framework to a comparative case study analysis of victimhood nationalist narratives employed by former Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević and former Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion.
Established in 1986 to commemorate the invaluable contribution of the late Professor F.S. Northedge to the creation of Millennium, the annual Northedge Essay Competition furthers a Millennium tradition of promoting exceptional student scholarship in a leading IR journal. Since its founding, Millennium has been a pivotal forum for innovative critical IR scholarship and has been run entirely by graduate students at the London School of Economics (LSE).