Historical International Relations (HIST) Section of @isanet. Follow us for news, conference information, new publications and more. Tweets by @Jan_Eijking
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In case you hadn't heard the exciting news yet: the ISA Nordic Caucus are organizing a 2027 mid-year ISA conference held June 23-25th in Reykjavik! Co-sponsored by the HIST section. Submit your proposals by October 23rd – all details below 👇 #NordicISA
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👉 All our most up-to-date info, including our fabulous award winners as well as the latest nomination details for next year's awards, on our section website!
histsectionisa.weebly.com
After the ISA is before the ISA! 🤓
The call for next year's @isanet annual convention in Atlanta 🏙️ is now up on the website.
🗓️ Deadline for proposals is June 1st – all further information below 👇
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Thanks everyone for joining us at ISA 2026 in Columbus this week, including at our reception, where we had a chance to announce and celebrate our award winners – both in attendance and in absentia. 🎉
Get ready for the 2026 @isanet Convention in Columbus! To help you navigate the programme, here's an overview of our exciting HIST events and panels!
🗓️ First of all, the HIST section reception: Monday 23rd, 8pm – Taft A, Hyatt Regency Columbus
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Get ready for the 2026 @isanet Convention in Columbus! To help you navigate the programme, here's an overview of our exciting HIST events and panels!
🗓️ First of all, the HIST section reception: Monday 23rd, 8pm – Taft A, Hyatt Regency Columbus
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"Objects of Memory and Symbolism in International Politics" SA055: Sunday 8:15 AM - 10:00 AM
👉 check the convention programme for all up-to-date details: isanet.org/Conferences/ISA20…
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🏅 Barbara W. Tuchman Prize: Best Paper in Hist. IR by a Graduate Student
Committee: Jelena Subotic (Chair), Or Rosenboim, Thomas Müller
Goes to 🥁
Hermann Derwanz, “The contested origins of the GATT: Imperialism, Anti-Imperialism, and the making of multilateral free trade”
🏅 Merze Tate Prize for Best Article in Historical IR
Committee: Justin Rosenberg (Chair), Jaakko Heiskanen, Andrea Paras
The award goes to ... 🥁
Haro Karkour & Felix Rösch (2024) "Towards IR’s “Fifth Debate”: Racial Justice and the National Interest in Classical Realism"
According to the committee, a "valuable contribution" that "deserves to be read not only by historical IR scholars, but also by IR scholars interested in classical realism or race and racism more generally".
Congratulations! 🎉
Read the article here: academic.oup.com/isr/article…
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🏅 Joseph Fletcher Prize for Best Edited Book in Historical International Relations
Committee: Jelena Subotic (Chair), Or Rosenboim, Thomas Müller
This year's award goes to ... 🥁
Richard Ned Lebow and Ludvig Norman for "Weimar’s Long Shadow" (Cambridge University Press)
🏅 The Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations
Committee: Hendrik Spruyt (Chair), Mlada Bukovansky, Maïa Pal
This year's award goes to ... 🥁
Patricia Owens for "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (Princeton)
🗓️ Less than two weeks until the 2026 @isanet Convention in Columbus, Ohio! Over the coming days, we will be announcing the winners of our 2026 prizes, and point you to all HIST panels at the ISA. Stay tuned!
🚨 The 2025 Joseph Fletcher Prize Forum on the "Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations" is now out in the Cambridge Review of International Affairs. Have a look at the introduction, individual reviews, & editors' response below 👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
#HistIR postdoc opportunity at ANU in Canberra
Postdoctoral Fellow in International Relations on the Australian Research Council project “Humane Exclusion: How States Justify Excluding Refugees” with Prof Luke Glanville
DL March 15th – details 👇jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc…
New @EuroJournIR special issue on "History and Theory in International Relations" 🔽
Congrats to all contributors and the editorial team!
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This new IO special issue looks fascinating 👇
NEW ISSUE from @IntOrgJournal -
The Future of Global Governance and World Order - cup.org/481uNo5
International Organization - Volume 79 - Issue S1 - December 2025
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⏰ Reminder!
Don't forget to submit your nominations for our 2025 prizes – deadline is **tomorrow** ⬇️
All details below & on our website:
🚨 2025 HIST prize details
Have a look at this thread for all up-to-date information about our prizes (also on our website, histsectionisa.weebly.com) & spread the word! 🙏👇
*All nominations* are due August 1st and should be sent (by email) to the respective committee chair. 🧵
🚨 2025 HIST prize details
Have a look at this thread for all up-to-date information about our prizes (also on our website, histsectionisa.weebly.com) & spread the word! 🙏👇
*All nominations* are due August 1st and should be sent (by email) to the respective committee chair. 🧵
Did you publish a book or edited volume related to historical IR in 2023 or 2024? If so, you have until August 15 to submit a nomination for our Francesco Guicciardini Prize (book) or Joseph F. Fletcher Prize (edited volume)!
See instructions here: histsectionisa.weebly.com/aw…
Did you publish an article on historical IR between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024? If so, you have less than one week to submit a nomination for our Merze Tate Prize! Deadline is August 15.
See instructions here (self nominations encouraged!): histsectionisa.weebly.com/aw…
We are excited to announce the winners of this year's prizes in Historical International Relations. Congratulations to all!👏
The Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations is awarded to Claire Vergerio @PolSciLeiden for "War, States, and International Order: Alberico Gentili and the Foundational Myth of the Laws of War" (Cambridge 2022)!
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🏆Our historical international relations prizes are open for nominations!
We have awards for Best Article, Best Book, and Best Edited Book. See details/deadlines in the thread.
All prizes are open to both third-party nominations and self-nominations.
histsectionisa.weebly.com/aw…
First, the Merze Tate Prize for best article in historical IR. Open to papers by @isanet members first published between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023. Nominations due by August 1.
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