Each year, the International Ethics Section will award one prize of $200 for the best book published in the field of international ethics. The award recognizes a book that excels in originality, significance and rigor in the broadly defined field of international ethics. The subject matter of the book can be, but is not limited to, international descriptive ethics, international normative ethics, metaethics, comparative ethics, international religious ethics, international political theory, and international legal theory.

Award Details

For a listing of previous awardees, please see the Past Award Recipients page.

Submission/Nomination

• Eligibility: Eligible books can be either single or multi-authored. Edited collections will not be eligible. Textbooks, translations and memoirs are not eligible. Books not clearly falling into one of the above categories may be considered if all three members of the Selection Committee agree that it is worthy of consideration.
• Nominations: Authors can self nominate if they so wish. To be considered for the award, one copy of each nominated book should be sent to each of the three members of the Selection Committee.
• Books nominated will not be returned. Books to be considered must be published within a two year period preceding the year of the competition: For instance, to be considered for the 2013 prize, books must be published in either 2011 or 2012. ‘Published’ means that the year listed in the book itself must be one of these two.
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• Books nominated for the 2013 Book Award should be submitted to all members of the Selection Committee by September 1, 2012.

Selection

• The winner will be announced at the International Ethics business meeting held during each ISA Annual Convention.

Prize

• A $200.00 (USD) cash prize is awarded to the recipient.

Award Committee

The Committee Chair is responsible for sending award information to the ISA Award Coordinator and for notifying the recipient of the award and encouraging the recipient to attend the Annual Convention at which the award is to be presented so as to receive the award in person.

Neta C. Crawford CHAIR, 2012-2013 Department of Political Science Boston University 232 Bay State Road Boston, MA 02215 USA nccrawford@earthlink.net
James Bohman MEMBER, 2012-2013 Department of Philosophy Saint Louis University 3800 Lindell Blvd. Humanities Room 130 St. Louis, MO 63156 USA bohmanjf@slu.edu	Eric Heinze MEMBER, 2012-2013 Department of International and Area Studies University of Oklahoma Norman, OK 73019 USA eheinze@ou.edu