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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.
2009 Marshall Shulman Book Prize Committee
The winner of the 2009 AAASS Shulman Book Prize will be chosen by the following scholars:
- Theodore Hopf, Ohio State University; Committee Chair, 2008-2010
(mailing address):
Theodore Hopf
Ohio State University
The Mershon Center
1501 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43201 - Hope Harrison, George Washington University; 2008-2010
(mailing address):
Hope M. Harrison
Director, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
Associate Professor of History and International Affairs
1957 E. St., N.W., Suite 412
Elliott School of International Affairs
George Washington University
Washington, D.C. 20052 - Yoshiko Herrera, University of Wisconsin-Madison; 2007-2009
(mailing address):
Yoshiko Herrera
Associate Professor
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Department of Political Science
North Hall, Room 110
1050 Bascom Mall
Madison, WI 53706
Rules of eligibility
Rules of eligibility for the Shulman book prize competition are as follows:
- The copyright date inside the book must list previous calendar year as the date of publication, and the book must have been published in the United States
- The book must be a monograph, preferably by a single author, or by no more than two authors
- Authors must be American scholars or residents of the U.S.
- Works must be about international behavior of the countries of the former Communist Bloc
- Textbooks, collections, translations, bibliographies, and reference works are ineligible
Nominating Instructions
Send one copy of eligible monograph to each Committee member (see addresses above) AND to the AAASS main office (address in the footnote). Nominations must be received no later than May 8, 2009.
Submissions should be clearly marked “Marshall Shulman Book Prize Nomination.” If you would like to receive an acknowledgment that your nomination was received please enclose with the copy mailed to the AAASS main office a note with your e-mail address or a self-addressed stamped envelope or a postcard.
2008 Marshall Shulman Book Prize Winner
The 2008 Marshall Shulman Book Prize was presented to Vladislav Zubok for A Failed Empire: The Soviet in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev, published by the University of North Carolina Press in The New Cold War History Series.
(Please click on the name of the winner to see the citation for the award, to connect to the publisher's web page with more information about the book, please click on the title)
Previous winners of the AAASS Shulman Book Prize
The following scholars received the AAASS Shulman Book Prize in the past:
(to read the citation for the award, please click on the winner's name; to go to the publisher's web page with more information about te book, please click on the title)
- 2007 - Charles Gati received the award for Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt (co-published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Stanford University Press in the Cold War International History Project Series)
- 2006 - co-winners: Alexander Cooley received the award for Logics of Hierarchy: The Organization of Empires, States, and Military Occupations, (Cornell University Press); Milada Anna Vachudova received the award for Europe Undivided: Democracy, Leverage & Integration After Communism, (Oxford University Press)
- 2005 - Stanley G. Payne, The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism (Yale University Press); honorable mention: Wade Jacoby, The Enlargement of the European Union and NATO: Ordering from the Menu in Central Europe (Cambridge University Press);
- 2004 - Hope M. Harrison, Driving the Soviets up the Wall: Soviet-East German Relations, 1953-1961 (Princeton Unviersity Press)
- 2003 - co-winners: Ted Hopf, Social Construction of International Politics: Identities & Foreign Policies, Moscow, 1955 & 1999 (Cornell University Press); Bertrand M. Patenaude, The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921 (Stanford University Press)
- 2002 - Rawi Abdelal, National Purpose in the World Economy: Post-Soviet States in Comparative Perspective (Cornell University Press)
- 2001 - co-winners: Robert English, Russia and the Idea of the West: Gorbachev, Intellectuals, and the End of the Cold War (Columbia University Press); David R. Stone, Hammer and Rifle: The Militarization of the Soviet Union, 1926-1933 (University Press of Kansas)
- 2000 - Matthew Evangelista, Unarmed Forces: The Transnational Movement to End the Cold War (Cornell University Press)
- 1999 - co-winners: William E. Odom, The Collapse of Soviet Military (Yale University Press), Ilya Prizel, National Identity and Foreign Policy: Nationalism and Leadership in Poland, Russia and Ukraine (Cambridge University Press)
- 1998 - Paul Josephson, New Atlantis Revisited: Akademgorodok, the Siberian City of Science (Princeton University Press)
- 1997 - Jane I. Dawson, Eco-Nationalism: Anti-Nuclear Activism and National Identity in Russia, Lithuania, and Ukraine (Duke University Press)
- 1996 - Jack F. Matlock, Jr., Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union (Random House)
- 1995 - David Holloway, Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-56 (Yale U Press)
- 1994 - Kimberly Marten Zisk, Engaging the Enemy: Organization Theory and Soviet Military Innovation, 1955-1991 (Princeton U Press)
- 1993 - Jan S. Adams, A Foreign Policy in Transition: Moscow's Retreat from Central America and the Caribbean, 1985-1992 (Duke U Press)
- 1992 - Oles M. Smolansky, with Betty M. Smolansky, The USSR and Iraq: The Soviet Quest for Influence (Duke U Press)
- 1991 - Michael J. Sodaro, Moscow, Germany and the West from Khrushchev to Gorbachev (Cornell U Press)
- 1990 - Thane Gustafson, Crisis Amid Plenty: The Politics of Soviet Energy under Brezhnev and Gorbachev (Princeton U Press)
- 1989 - Alvin Z. Rubinstein, Moscow's Third World Strategy (Princeton U Press)
- 1988 - Allen Lynch, The Soviet Study of International Relations (Cambridge U Press)
- 1987 - Charles Gati, Hungary and the Soviet Bloc (Duke U Press)
