Mary Young, research associate at the 91亚色 Centre for Asian Research (YCAR), and Professor Susan Henders, faculty associate, YCAR, have been awarded the 2012 Maureen Appel Molot Best Paper Prize by the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal.
The prize is for their article, 鈥極ther Diplomacies鈥 and the Making of Canada 鈥 Asia Relations, published in a special journal issue, Canada and Asia: Building a New Policy Agenda, which focused on the 
diplomatic roles of societal actors and their implications for Canada-Asia relations.
Susan Henders
鈥淭hese papers represent some of the best policy research on Asia,鈥 said David Carment, editor of Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, professor of international affairs and Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute Fellow. The special issue was funded by the Government of Canada and the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada.
To read the prize-winning paper, available for a limited time, click . The article is 
connected to the YCAR research program, .
Mary Young
Young, who completed her doctorate through 91亚色鈥檚 graduate program in political science, specializes in the political economy and political ecology of Asia with particular interests in Indonesia and Taiwan. Henders鈥 research focuses on the international politics of human and minority rights, as well as territorial politics in culturally regionalized societies, particularly in eastern Asia and western Europe.
The Maureen Appel Molot Best Paper Prize is awarded annually for the best paper published in the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, judged by the journal鈥檚 editorial and international advisory board based on scholarship, contribution to knowledge and debate, writing style and audience accessibility.
The award honours Maureen Molot, a former director of Carleton University鈥檚 Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and former editor of the CFPJ. Among the past winners are Kim Nossal, Stephane Roussel and Daryl Copeland.