Cederman was twice granted the Heinz Eulau Award for the best article in the American Political Science Review in 2011 for the co-authored article “Horizontal Inequalities and Ethno-Nationalist Civil War: A Global Comparison”, and in 2001 for the article “Back to Kant: Reinterpreting the Democratic Peace as a Collective Learning Process.”
Außerdem wurde Cederman zweimal der Heinz Eulau Award für den besten Artikel in der American Political Science Review verliehen: 2011 für den Artikel Horizontal Inequalities and Ethno-Nationalist Civil War: A Global Comparison und 2001 für den Artikel Back to Kant: Reinterpreting the Democratic Peace as a Collective Learning Process.