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.

Details

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Recipient Criteria

Recipients must be current members of ISA.
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.
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.

Prize

The award will be presented at the section’s business meeting at the ISA Annual Convention.
The winner will receive a prize of $300 and a plaque.

Selection Process

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.
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.
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 External Selection Committee member 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. 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.

Nomination/Application Instructions

To nominate a book, hard copies must be sent to all members of the committee (see right). Due to the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and consequent lack of access to our institutional addresses, hard copies need to be sent to committee members' home addresses.
Please email the award chair Nicole Sunday Grove if you would like to nominate or self-nominate a book to receive a list with committee members' addresses. 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.
Books must be received by September 1 of the year preceding the convention; copies will not be returned.

Recipients

Congratulations to the 2021 recipient of the IPS Book Award, Rahul Rao, for the book Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality! See the previous recipients below.

Past Recipients

Year	Recipient	Title
2021	Rahul Rao	Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality
2020	Emma McCluskey	From Righteousness to Far Right
2019	Diana Fu	Mobilizing without the Masses. Control and Contention in China
2018	Debbie Lisle	Holidays in the Danger Zone: Entanglements of War and Tourism
2017	Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu	How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism
2016	Deborah Cowen	The Deadly Life of Logistics. Mapping Violence in Global Trade
2014	Rebecca Adler-Nissen	Opting Out of the European Union: Diplomacy, Sovereignty and European Integration
2014	Lisa Stampnitzky	Disciplining Terror. How Experts Invented Terrorism
2013	Laleh Khalili	Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies
2013	Marieke de Goede	Speculative Security: The Politics of Pursuing Terrorist Monies
2012	Iver B. Neumann and Ole Jacob Sending (co-authors)	TBD

Committee Members

Nicole Sunday Grove | Chair
University of Hawaii at Manoa

Doerthe Rosenow | Member
Oxford Brookes University

Jessica Auchter | Member
University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

Award Chairs, please review dates to ensure deadlines are met.

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