The International Political Sociology Section (IPS) of the International Studies Association will institute a yearly award for “best book” in the field of international political sociology. The award will be presented at the section’s business meeting at the International Studies Association Annual Convention. The winner will receive a prize of US$300 and a plaque.
Eligibility
The winner of the award will be selected for its outstanding contribution to international political sociology, whether in the form of theoretical development, empirical analysis, or both. Single- and multi-authored monographs published (i.e., with copyright dates) in the previous two calendar years are eligible for the award. Textbooks, edited collections and memoirs, as well as later editions and translations of previously published works, will not be considered. Books have to be published in an English-language edition to be considered.
Nomination Process
To nominate a book, authors or publishers must send three copies to the chair of the Selection Committee. Books must be received by 15 July of the year preceding the convention; copies will not be returned.
Other nominations of books will also be considered. If a nomination does not come from an author or a publisher, the nominators will contact the publisher and/or author to ask for three copies to be sent to the Chair of the Selection Committee. If the publisher and/or author does not send copies of the book, the book will not be eligible for consideration.
The Selection Committee
External Selection Committee members will serve for two years. The Chair of the Committee and the two members of the Executive Committee part of the Selection Committee will serve for one year.
Works written by, or contributed to, Selection Committee members are ineligible for the award. Any member of the committee, excepting the Chair, may refuse to serve in order to make such a work eligible. The Chair will be responsible for selecting a suitable replacement.
The Chair is responsible for coordinating the deliberations of the committee, keeping records of the deliberations, and awarding the prize at the International Studies Association Meeting.
The Selection Committee should feel free to recommend that no award should be made in a given year. If at all possible, the Selection Committee should choose the winning submission and notable papers by consensus. If the Selection committee is unable to reach a consensus, a majority vote will determine the winning submission and notable papers.
At the time the short list is decided, a Selection Committee member who would then be in a conflict of interest (for example, judging the work of a departmental colleague, an author whose book belongs in a series that a committee member edits, a student in his or her department, a partner or family relative, a book co-author or journal co-editor, a former student or a former supervisor) shall remove himself or herself from the Committee, and the decision to short list a book by someone in a conflict of interest with a Selection Committee member should be made without this Selection Committee member. In the event that two Selection Committee members are in a conflict of interest with a submission, the Selection Committee member without a conflict will appoint an external substitute.
The Chair is responsible for coordinating the deliberations of the committee, keeping records of the deliberations, and awarding the prize at the International Studies Association Meeting.
The Selection Committee should feel free to recommend that no prize be given. If at all possible, the Selection Committee should choose the winning submission and notable books by consensus. If the Selection committee is unable to reach a consensus, a majority vote will determine the winning submission and notable books.
The Chair of the Selection Committee must forward to the Executive Committee a recommendation for the Book Prize Winner, as well as up to three notable books, including a 100 words citation for each book, at least a month before the ISA annual meeting when the prize winner will be announced. These results will be published on the International Political Sociology Section website.
The 2012 IPS Book Award Selection Committee
Chair
Pinar Bilgin Department of International Relations Bilkent University Ankara, 06800 Turkey pbilgin@bilkent.edu.trSelection Committee members:
- Paulo Esteves, IRI-PUC Rio
- Jenny Edkins, Aberystwyth University
- Barry Hindess, Australian National University
- Daniel H. Nexon, Georgetown University
