The jury awards the Early Researcher Book Award 2021 to Carolina Milhorance for her book "New Geographies of Global Policy Making: South-South Networks and Rural Development Strategies” (Routledge, 2018). In this monograph, Carolina Milhorance delves into a fascinating case of South-South transnational policy making, that goes far beyond a study of an emerging power strategy. She proposes an in-depth tracing of the internaonalization and transfer of Brazilian rural policy instruments, conducting an impressive analysis of the competing coalitions in this dynamic process out of Brazil, and then balancing the perspective by studying the effects of transfer in the implementation of the tools in recipient countries, especially the case of Mozambique. The jury wishes to highlight the high quality of the extensive fieldwork in 6 countries and 3 continents, as well as the diversity, creavity and subtlety of the approach, originally orchestrating a set of different public policy conceptual instruments. Through the unpacking of this complex case, Carolina Milhorance beautifully addresses a question that is a major one for public policy research today: how global norms emerge, travel and are interpreted. “New geographies in global policy making” is a book that is also about new frontiers in public policy studies, and bring important and innovative contributions for any public policy researcher who has the desire to explore transnational public policies; Global South in policymaking; and the internationalization of domestic coalitions and articulation to international organizations.