The prize recognizes and supports the crucial role of theory and theoretical pluralism in and for International Relations in Europe. It is awarded to theoretically innovative articles that elaborate a novel idea, make a significant contribution to existing debates, provide a rigorous analysis and impetus for new research.
Eligibility
all articles published online in EJIR in the previous calendar year
Prize
the prize will be announced on the EJIR website
a presentation of the award at the annual EISA conference
an invitation to the Section Chairs’ Dinner at the EISA conference
free conference registration
a year’s free membership in EISA
We will announce the award winner Mid-June 2025.
Articles published in the 2024 volume of the journal in 2024.
If you have any queries about this award, please contact EISA Office at info@eisa-net.org.
Deepak Nair: “Saving face in diplomacy: A political sociology of face-to-face interactions in ASEAN”
Ida Danewid: “The fire this time: Grenfell, racial capitalism and the urbanisation of empire”
2019
Joanne Yao: “Conquest from barbarism’: The Danube Commission, international order and the control of nature as a Standard of Civilization”
2018
Ted Hopf: “Change in international practices”
2017
Jason Ralph and Jess Gifkins: “The purpose of United Nations Security Council practice: Contesting competence claims in the normative context created by the Responsibility to Protect”
2016
Lisel Hintz: ‘”Take It Outside´ National Identity Contestation in the Foreign Policy Arena”
2015
Rebecca Adler-Nissen and Vincent Pouliot: “Power in Practice: Negotiating the international intervention in Libya”
2013
Martin Shaw: “From Comparative to International Genocide Studies: The International Production of Genocide in 20th Century Europe”
