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Best Book Prize

Awarded annually for the book that has made the most substantial and original contribution

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.

Deadline 1 Dec 2024

The deadline for the 2025 prize is 1 December 2024.

 

Eligibility and Prize:

The book must:

  • have a publication date in 2024;
  • be a first edition
  • be written in English (or translated into English);
  • be authored by an Individual, Early-Career or PhD Researcher member of UACES (the prize is open to single-, dual- or multi-authored books, but NOT edited volumes). The authors must be members of UACES or join in order to be considered.

 

Nominations for the prize are welcome from individuals or publishers.

To nominate, a PDF copy (or access codes for 2 e-copies) of each nominated book should be sent to admin@uaces.org by the nomination deadline, clearly identifying the book as being nominated for the prize.  If you are an individual nominating your book for the prize, please CC your editor into the email and UACES will coordinate access to the e-copy. 

If your book is published between the deadline and 31 December you can still be considered for the 2025 prize. If this is the case, and you wish to nominate yourself, please contact admin@uaces.org prior to the deadline, stating that you wish to be considered for an extension.

Note: In the interests of equality and diversity publishers should ensure that for every book they nominate by a male author, they nominate a book by a female author as well. This requirement does not apply to self-nominations by authors.

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.

We look forward to receiving your submissions.

Previous Winners

-23
-23

Year
Year

Author
Author

Book
Book

-23
-22

Year

Author

Book

-23
-21

Year
2023

Author
Mary C. Murphy and Jonathan Evershed

Book
A Troubled Constitutional Future: Northern Ireland after Brexit

-23
-20

Year
2022

Author
Elena Baracani

Book
EU-Turkey Relations - A new Direction for EU Foreign Policy?

-23
-19

Year
2021

Author
Vestert Borger

Book
The Currency of Solidarity: Constitutional Transformation during the Euro Crisis

-23
-18

Year
2020

Author
Simon Bulmer & Willie Patterson

Book
Germany and the European Union: Europe’s reluctant hegemon

-23
-17

Year
2020

Author
Eleni Frantziou

Book
The Horizontal Effect of Fundamental Rights in the European Union

-23
-16

Year
2019

Author
Jan Zielonka

Book
Counter-Revolution: Liberal Europe in Retreat

-23
-15

Year
2018

Author
Thomas Winzen

Book
Constitutional Preferences and Parliamentary Reform - Explaining National Parliaments' Adaptation to European Integration

-23
-14

Year
2017

Author
Michaël Tatham

Book
With, Without, or Against the State? How European regions play the Brussels game

-23
-13

Year
2016

Author
Theresa Kuhn

Book
Experiencing European Integration: Transnational Lives and European Identity

-23
-12

Year
2015

Author
Kenneth Dyson

Book
States, Debt, and Power: Saints and Sinners in European History and Integration

-23
-11

Year
2014

Author
Claudia Schrag Sternberg

Book
The Struggle for EU Legitimacy: Public Contestation 1950-2005

-23
-10

Year
2013

Author
Christopher Bickerton

Book
European Integration: From Nation-States to Member States

-23
-9

Year
2012

Author
Mai’a K. Davis Cross

Book
Security Integration in Europe: How Knowledge-based Networks Are Transforming the European Union

-23
-8

Year
2011

Author
Kenneth Armstrong

Book
Governing Social Inclusion: Europeanization through Policy Coordination

-23
-7

Year
2010

Author
Robert Schütze

Book
From Dual to Cooperative Federalism: The Changing Structure of European Law

-23
-6

Year
2009

Author
Urfan Khaliq

Book
Ethical Dimensions of the Foreign Policy of the European Union: A Legal Appraisal

-23
-5

Year
2008

Author
Jo Shaw

Book
The Transformation of Citizenship in the European Union: Electoral Rights and the Restructuring of Political Space

-23
-4

Year
2007

Author
Andrew Jordan & Adriaan Schout

Book
The Coordination of the European Union: Exploring the Capacities of Networked Governance

-23
-3

Year
2007

Author
Lynn Dobson

Book
Supranational Citizenship (Europe in Change)

-23
-2

Year
2006

Author
Georg Menz

Book
Varieties of Capitalism and Europeanization: National Response Strategies to the Single European Market

-23
-1

Year
2005

Author
Stefan Auer

Book
Liberal Nationalism in Central Europe