World Society Foundation Award
The World Society Foundation Award honours outstanding contributions of research papers on world society addressing a specific topic announced by the WSF in its international conferences program.
- The WSF Award has been established in 2007 on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the World Society Foundation.
- The prize money of the Award is US$ 10.000 (First Prize) and US$ 5.000 (Second Prize).
The candidates are invited to an international conference, where the award is presented.
The Foundation's Board of Members acts as the jury for the evaluation.
Recipients of the WSF Award for Research Papers
| Year | First Prize | Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Veda Vaidyanathan | “How do Chinese and Other Asian Immigrants Fare in the South African Labor Market? An Examination of Inequalities in Employment Using Data from South Africa” |
| 2019 | Kevin J.A. Thomas | “Reimagining Engagement and Realigning Priorities: How India and China are Informing the African Growth Story” |
| 2013 | Scott Albrecht and Patricio Korzeniewicz | “Global Wages and World Inequality: The Impact of the Great Recession” |
| 2013 | Carl Nordlund | “Preceding and Governing Measurements: An Emmanuelian Conceptualization of Ecological Unequal Exchange” |
| 2013 | Robert MacPherson | “Syndicalist Coalitional Activity in World-Historical Perspective” |
| 2010 | Ho-fung Hung | “Global Crisis, China, and the Strange Death of the East Asian Model ” |
| 2008 | Daniela Rohrbach | “Sector Bias and Sector Dualism: The Knowledge Society and Inequality” |
| 2007 | Hagai Katz | “Global Civil Society Networks and Counter-Hegemony” |
| 2007 | Rafael Reuveny and William R. Thompson | “The Limits of Economic Globalization: Still Another North South Cleavage?“ |