Award | 27/11/2024
Political scientist Dr. Hana Attia receives this year’s Leibniz “Humanities and Social Sciences” PhD prize for her research on international sanctions. The award ceremony took place on 27 November 2024 during the annual meeting of the Leibniz Association in Berlin. The GIGA congratulates Hana on this award.
In her dissertation “Biased Coercion: The Imposition, Management, and Termination of US Sanctions,” Dr. Hana Attia examines the foreign policy instrument of international sanctions and sheds light on the conditions under which respective US presidents impose, manage, and lift these punitive measures.
As a member of the GIGA Doctoral Programme and part of the Institute’s Research Programme “Peace and Security” under the direction of Prof. Dr. Christian von Soest, since 2018 Attia has continued to generate key findings via her work. Together with Dr. Julia Grauvogel, Attia also conducted research in the course of the DFG-funded project “Sanctions Termination in Times of Crises: Unpacking the Role of External Shocks”.Alongside the overall praise it received for its handling of these matters, Attia’s dissertation is also characterised by its interdisciplinarity and real-world relevance according to the reasons listed for its selection for the Leibniz PhD Prize. The latter considers, accordingly, her dissertation to stand above all those emerging from the Association’s member institutes this year.
The Leibniz PhD Prize is awarded annually for the best doctoral theses from Leibniz institutes – almost 800 strong in 2023 – in the categories “Humanities and Social Sciences” and “Natural and Technical Sciences,” respectively. The winner in each category receives an endowment of 5,000 euros.
