2006 Marshall Shulman Book Prize Winners
The AAASS Marshall Shulman Prize, sponsored by the Harriman Institute of Columbia University, is awarded annually for an outstanding monograph dealing with the international relations, foreign policy, or foreign-policy decision-making of any of the states of the former Soviet Union or Eastern Europe. The prize is dedicated to the encouragement of high quality studies of the international behavior of the countries of the former Communist Bloc.
Milada Anna Vachudova
The 2006 Marshall Shulman Book was awarded to two scholars:
Alexander Cooley, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, and Faculty member of Columbia University's Harriman Institute, for Logics of Hierarchy: The Organization of Empires, States, and Military Occupations, published by Cornell University Press.
and
Milada Anna Vachudova, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, for Europe Undivided: Democracy, Leverage & Integration After Communism, published by Oxford University Press.
In Europe Undivided, Milada Vachudova provides the most convincing account to date of the relationship between the European Union and the international politics of central and eastern Europe. In distinguishing between the European Union’s purposeful attempts to shape the politics of its eastern neighbors and the influence that derived simply from its norms, Vachudova provides a sophisticated analysis of the varied effects of European practices and policies on the domestic politics in prospective members. Vachudova thus matches her theoretical sophistication with erudite, nuanced empirical scholarship. Furthermore, by linking the process of democratization with patterns of international relations, Vachudova succeeds in connecting scholarly literatures that are too often separated.