The International Studies Annual Best Book Award is conferred for the best book in the field of international studies with a copyright dated the year before the nomination.
About the Award
- Eligibility: The Annual International Studies Best Book Award is conferred for the best book in the field of international studies in the previous year.
- Nominations: Individuals, authors, departments, and publishers may submit a nomination. A brief supporting statement is required of each nomination. The nomination with supporting statement should be addressed to the committee chair. Only email nominations will be considered. Nominators are limited to one submission. It is the nominator's responsibility to contact the publisher and request that copies of the nominated title be sent to each of the committee members at the addresses listed below, along with one copy to ISA headquarters.
- Prize: The recipient of the Best Book Award will receive $500 along with an award plaque and will be automatically nominated for the ISA Book of the Decade Award.
- Notification: The Committee Chair is responsible for notifying the recipient of the award and encouraging the recipient to attend the ISA Annual Convention at which the award is to be presented. Recipients will be notified in December.
- Committee Terms: Book Award Committee members serve a term of one year and are appointed by the incumbent ISA President. Member terms officially begin with the ISA Governing Council meeting of the first year listed and end with the closing of the ISA Governing Council meeting of the final year listed.
- Deadline: July 1st
- Note: This award is not presented in years in which the Book of the Decade is presented; there will be no award nominations accepted in 2009. Books published in 2008 & 2009 will be considered for the annual award competition to be nominated in 2010 and presented at the 2011 ISA Annual Convention.
CHAIR
Professor John R. Oneal
FEB 2010 - MAR 2011
Department of Political Science
The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0213
USA
E-Mail: joneal@bama.ua.edu
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Professor Stephen M. Saideman
FEB 2010 - MAR 2011
Department of Political Science
McGill University
855 Sherbrooke St West
Montreal, QC H3A 2T7
Canada
Professor John Ravenhill
FEB 2010 - MAR 2011
Department of International Relations
School of International, Political and Strategic Studies
College of Asia and the Pacific
Hedley Bull Centre #130
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
Australia
AWARD RECIPIENTS
2009 Andrew Hurrell, On Global Order: Power, Values, and the Constitution of International Society (Oxford University Press, 2007).
2008 The winners of the 2008 International Studies
Best Book Award are:
2007 The Marketing of Rebellion: Insurgents, Media, and International Activism, Clifford Bob, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
