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Hedley Bull Prize

Nomination Procedure

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Nominations open: Monday 11 December 2023
Deadline for nominations: Sunday 31 March 2024

Nominations for the 2024 Prize are now open.

Submitting a nomination 

To nominate, please email a formal nomination letter to prizes@ecpr.eu.

Nominations must include, as three separate PDF files:

  • Formal nomination letter including book title and year of publication, and the rationale for nominating this book
  • Book as a PDF file
  • Reviews if available

Publishers will be contacted at the end of the nomination period by ECPR to provide hard copies of the nominated books for our jury.

Eligibility

  • The prize is open to social science scholars.
  • Candidates need not be from an ECPR member institution.
  • Only affiliates of member institutions can nominate, however, the candidate and nominator do not have to be from the same institution.
  • The work must be a published monograph.
  • Entries must be published in the two years before the year of award (i.e. in 2022 and 2023, for the 2024 prize application).

Exclusions

  • Self-nominations are not accepted.
  • Nominations from publishers and agencies are not accepted.
  • Members of the ECPR Executive Committee, ECPR Director, or Editors of any ECPR books, journals or blog are not eligible for this prize.
    • Members of the Executive Committee and the Director become eligible after three buffer years, and editors after one.
    • The requirement that a work have been published in the previous two years may be waived in this case.
  • Edited volumes are not eligible.

Prize Jury

Eligible nominations will be reviewed by a jury comprised of the Convenors of the ECPR Standing Group on International Relations (SGIR), Critical Peace and Conflict Studies, Human Rights and Transitional Justice, International Political Theory, and a member of the Executive Committee of the ECPR as Chair.

The jury for the 2024 Hedley Bull prize will be confirmed.

Prize announcement and delivery

The winner will be announced in autumn 2024

Questions? Email prizes@ecpr.eu