Best Article: European Journal of International Relations
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 2026.
Articles published in the 2025 volume of the journal in 2025.
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”
