Best Book Prize
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.
The deadline for the 2024 prize is 1 December 2023.
Eligibility and Prize:
The book must:
- have a publication date in 2023;
- 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 2024 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
Year
Year
Author
Author
Book
Book
Year
2023
Author
Mary C. Murphy and Jonathan Evershed
Book
A Troubled Constitutional Future: Northern Ireland after Brexit
Year
2022
Author
Elena Baracani
Book
EU-Turkey Relations - A new Direction for EU Foreign Policy?
Year
2021
Author
Vestert Borger
Book
The Currency of Solidarity: Constitutional Transformation during the Euro Crisis
Year
2020
Author
Simon Bulmer & Willie Patterson
Book
Germany and the European Union: Europe’s reluctant hegemon
Year
2020
Author
Eleni Frantziou
Book
The Horizontal Effect of Fundamental Rights in the European Union
Year
2019
Author
Jan Zielonka
Book
Counter-Revolution: Liberal Europe in Retreat
Year
2018
Author
Thomas Winzen
Book
Constitutional Preferences and Parliamentary Reform - Explaining National Parliaments' Adaptation to European Integration
Year
2017
Author
Michaël Tatham
Book
With, Without, or Against the State? How European regions play the Brussels game
Year
2016
Author
Theresa Kuhn
Book
Experiencing European Integration: Transnational Lives and European Identity
Year
2015
Author
Kenneth Dyson
Book
States, Debt, and Power: Saints and Sinners in European History and Integration
Year
2014
Author
Claudia Schrag Sternberg
Book
The Struggle for EU Legitimacy: Public Contestation 1950-2005
Year
2013
Author
Christopher Bickerton
Book
European Integration: From Nation-States to Member States
Year
2012
Author
Mai’a K. Davis Cross
Book
Security Integration in Europe: How Knowledge-based Networks Are Transforming the European Union
Year
2011
Author
Kenneth Armstrong
Book
Governing Social Inclusion: Europeanization through Policy Coordination
Year
2010
Author
Robert Schütze
Book
From Dual to Cooperative Federalism: The Changing Structure of European Law
Year
2009
Author
Urfan Khaliq
Book
Ethical Dimensions of the Foreign Policy of the European Union: A Legal Appraisal
Year
2008
Author
Jo Shaw
Book
The Transformation of Citizenship in the European Union: Electoral Rights and the Restructuring of Political Space
Year
2007
Author
Andrew Jordan & Adriaan Schout
Book
The Coordination of the European Union: Exploring the Capacities of Networked Governance
Year
2007
Author
Lynn Dobson
Book
Supranational Citizenship (Europe in Change)
Year
2006
Author
Georg Menz
Book
Varieties of Capitalism and Europeanization: National Response Strategies to the Single European Market
Year
2005
Author
Stefan Auer
Book
Liberal Nationalism in Central Europe