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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:

Rules of eligibility

Rules of eligibility for the Shulman book prize competition are as follows:

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)