Antonian wins 2025 Sussex International Theory Prize

Antonian Dr Patrick Quinton-Brown (DPhil International Relations, 2014) has been awarded the 2025 Sussex International Theory Prize for his book Intervention before Interventionism: A Global Genealogy (Oxford University Press, 2024). His book provides a critical examination of interventionism and its position within foreign policy debates since the end of the Second World War. The prize, which is awarded annually by the Centre for Advanced International Theory, recognises excellent research in the field of international relations.

In its statement, the Centre for Advanced International Theory praised Dr Quinton-Brown’s book, commenting that ‘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.’

Dr Quinton-Brown will give a Public Prize Lecture on his research at the University of Sussex in Spring 2026. You can read more about the prize here.

A special review forum on the book was recently published in International Affairs and can be read here.