call for nominations for Marshall Shulman Book Prize

[Jolanta M. Davis]

Marshall Shulman Book Prize
2001 COMPETITION

The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), in
conjunction with the Harriman Institute of Columbia University, announces
the 2001 competition for the Marshall Shulman Prize. The prize was
rededicated to the encouragement of high quality studies of the
international behavior of the countries of the former Communist Bloc. It is
awarded 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. Only English-language
books published in the U.S. during the previous year will be considered.

Below is a partial list of past winners. The first Shulman Prize was
awarded in 1987.
2000 -- Matthew Evangelista, Unarmed Forces: The Transnational Movement to
End the Cold War (Cornell University Press)
1999 -- William E. Odom, The Collapse of the 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)

RULES OF ELIGIBILITY:
--The book must have been published in 2000;
--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.

Shulman Prize Committee and Nominating Instructions:

William Odom, Chair
Yale University
Department of Political Science
mailing address:
5112 38th St., NW
Washington, DC 20016

William Taubman
Amherst College
Department of Political Science
mailing address:
43 Hitchcock Road
Amherst, MA 01002

James Goldgeier
George Washington University
Department of Political Science
2201 G St, NW
Washington, DC 20052

Book publishers, journal editors, or authors should send copies of eligible
works to the Chair and to each of the Committee members as soon as possible
for consideration for this year's prize. Nominations must be received no
later than May 11, 2001. Submissions should be clearly marked "Shulman
Prize Nomination." Please enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope for
acknowledgment that your nomination was received.

The Shulman Prize carries a cash award. The 2001 award will be announced in
November at the 33rd AAASS National Convention in Crystal City, Virginia.
Prize-winning books are publicized nationally and internationally by the AAASS.


Jolanta M. Davis
Publications Coordinator and NewsNet Editor
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)
8 Story Street
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
tel.: (617) 495-0679
fax: (617) 495-0680
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/

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