Best Book Prize

The UACES best book prize is awarded annually for the book that has made the most substantial and original contribution to knowledge in the area of contemporary European Studies.

Scroll down for competition rules, eligibility and how to enter the 2014 prize.

2012 Winner

Awarded to Mai’a K. Davis Cross, University of Southern California for her book Security Integration in Europe: How Knowledge-based Networks are Transforming the European Union.

Focusing on the unprecedented advances in both external and internal security integration made by the European Union, the book brings together personal interviews and recent government documents across five separate case studies to construct a microsociological account of how EU governance really works and what future role the EU is likely to play internationally.

Mai’a’s book was commended by the judges for its clear articulation of an original hypothesis and its wealth of primary research. As one judge commented it is an ‘exceptionally good read’ that is bound to become a key reference source for European Integration scholars in the future.

Previous Winners

Year	Author	Title	ISBN
2013		Winner to be announced on 3 September 2013
2012	Mai’a K. Davis Cross	Security Integration in Europe: How Knowledge-based Networks Are Transforming the European Union	9780472117895
2011	Kenneth Armstrong	Governing Social Inclusion: Europeanization through Policy Coordination	9780199278374
2010	Robert Schütze	From Dual to Cooperative Federalism: The Changing Structure of European Law	9780199238583
2009	Urfan Khaliq	Ethical Dimensions of the Foreign Policy of the European Union: A Legal Appraisal	9780521870757
2008	Jo Shaw	The Transformation of Citizenship in the European Union: Electoral Rights and the Restructuring of Political Space	9780521677943
2007	Andrew Jordan & Adriaan Schout	The Coordination of the European Union: Exploring the Capacities of Networked Governance	9780199548484
2007	Lynn Dobson	Supranational Citizenship (Europe in Change)	9780719069529
2006	Georg Menz	Varieties of Capitalism and Europeanization: National Response Strategies to the Single European Market	9780199551033
2005	Stefan Auer	Liberal Nationalism in Central Europe	9780415314794

Nominate for 2014 Best Book Prize

The deadline for nominations is 31 January 2014.

To be eligible for the award, the book must:

• have a publication date in 2013;
• be written in English (or translated into English);
• be authored by an Individual or Student member of UACES (the prize is open to single-, dual- or multi-authored books, but NOT edited volumes).

Publishers are invited to nominate books for the prize. They should supply two copies of each nominated book to the UACES office, clearly identifying the books as nominations for the prize.

The prize is 100 GBP and the winning author will be invited to attend our Annual Conference as our guest and to collect the prize.

Competition Rules

• The jury's decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into;
• No responsibility is accepted for ineligible entries;
• UACES does not accept any responsibility for late or lost entries. Proof of sending is not proof of receipt;
• UACES reserves the right to cancel this competition at any stage, if deemed necessary in its opinion;
• Books will not be returned;
• Subsequent requests for book reviews will not be passed on to the jury;
  
• Entrants will be deemed to have accepted these rules and to agree to be bound by them when entering this competition.