The Richard A. Clarke National Scholarly Monograph Competitions were held in 2011, 2012 and 2013, and were financed by the A-Mark Foundation of Santa Monica, California, run by The Center for First Amendment Studies at California State University, Long Beach, in conjunction with the A-Mark Foundation website www.911plus.org. The .pdf files of the winning essays may be found by clicking on the titles below.
2011 Winning Essays
- Lessons Learned and Unlearned: The Tenth Anniversary of September 11, 2001
Sara Bjerg Moller—First Place Winner - Failure of American Strategic Thought and 911
Dimitar Georgiev—Second Prize Winner - The Patriot Act and the Public Library: An Unanticipated Threat to National Security
Jennifer L. Freer—Third Prize Winner
2012 Winning Essays
- Killing Them With Kindness: A Softer Approach to Preventing Violent Extremism and Countering Radicalization in the War on Terrorism
Melissa Jane Kronfeld—First Place Winner - Local Solutions and Community-Oriented Policing
Jiayi Zhou—Second Prize Winner - Counterterrorism: Seeking Successful Policies at the International Frontier
Tamara Zaman—Third Prize Winner
2013 Winning Essays
- Not Whether Machines Think, But Whether Men Do
Jane Stack—First Place Winner - Challenging the Legality of the U.S. Targeted Killing Program
Samia Hossain—Second Prize Winner