The RIS Best Article Prize is awarded annually by the editorial board of Review of International Studies (RIS) for the best article to be published in the previous year's volume.

BISA and the editorial team from Review of International Studies, are delighted to announce the winner of the 2022 Review of International Studies Best Article Prize:

Daniel Lambach - Space, scale, and global politics: Towards a critical approach to space in international relations

The prize judges noted that:

‘This is a well-written article that addresses an important conceptual issue relevant to many different areas of IR scholarship. The author engages with and effectively translates relevant work in geography, sociology, and anthropology to present an easily accessible yet sophisticated heuristic model that advances our ability to theorise and analyse spatial questions. The approach expands our spatial vocabulary beyond territory to acknowledge alternative spatial forms (e.g. place, scale, network, body and landscape) and encourages inquiry about how different forms of space emerge, are reinforced, and interact in a given context. Throughout the manuscript, [the author] acknowledges the 'pluralism of contemporary IR' with both explicit and implicit references to many different theoretical perspectives and substantive fields.’

You can watch RIS Editor Martin Coward interview Daniel Lambach here:

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Below is a list of all previous winning articles.

• 2022 (joint) - Militant memocracy in International Relations: Mnemonical status anxiety and memory laws in Eastern Europe - Maria Mälksoo
• 2022 (joint) - The Legon School of International Relations - Thomas Kwasi Tieku
• 2020 - Topological twists in the Syrian conflict: Re-thinking space through bread - José Ciro Martínez
• 2019 - Non-human humanitarians - Benjamin Meiches. You can also watch a video with the winner here
• 2018 - The politics of walls: barriers, flows and the sublime - William A. Callahan
• 2017 - Naming the dead and the politics of the “human” - Moya Lloyd
• 2016 - Community at the border or the boundaries of community? The case of EU field diplomats - Maren Hofius
• 2015 - Governing the world at a distance: the practice of global benchmarking - André Broome & Joel Quirk
• 2014 - Technocratic manager, imperial agent, or diplomatic champion? The IMF in the anarchical society - Christian Brutsch
• 2013 - Reasonable force: the emergence of global policing power - Barry J. Ryan
• 2012 - The Human Right to Health and the Struggle for Recognition - Patrick Hayden
• 2011 (joint) - Religious actors as epistemic communities in conflict transformation: the cases of South Africa and Northern Ireland - Nukhet Ahu Sandal
• 2011 (joint) - What makes terrorism modern? Terrorism, legitimacy and the international system - Ayse Zarakol
• 2010 - Autoethnographic International Relations: exploring the self as a source of knowledge - Morgan Brigg & Roland Bleiker
• 2009 - British irony, global justice: a pragmatic reading of Chris Brown, Banksy and Ricky Gervais - James Brassett
• 2008 - The Responsibilities of victory: Jus Post Bellum and the Just War - Alex Bellamy
• 2007 (joint) - Understanding sovereignty through Kelson/Schmit - Hidemi Suganami 
• 2007 (joint) - War and insecurity: legacies of Northern and Southern state formation - Roland Dannreuther
• 2006 - Africa and international relations: a comment on IR theory, anarchy and statehood - William Brown
• 2005 - When norms clash: international norms, domestic practices, and Japan's internalisation of the GATT/WTO - Andrew P. Cortell & James W. Davis
• 2001 - Human rights and the social construction of sovereignty - Christian Reus-Smit
• 2000 - Contemporary capitalism, globalisation, regionalisation and the persistence of national variation - Colin Hay
• 1999 - Ideology and the cold war - Mark Kramer
• 1998 - Degrees of statehood - Christopher Clapham
• 1995 - Keeping governments out of politics: transnational securities markets, regulatory cooperation, and political legitimacy - Geoffrey R. D. Underhill
• 1994 - Gender issues in international relations: the case of the European Community - Catherine Hoskyns
• 1993 - Neutrality beyond the Cold War - Pertti Joennieme
• 1992 - Reconsidering statehood: examining the sovereignty/intervention boundary - Cynthia Weber
• 1991 - China's entry into international society: beyond the standard of 'civilisation' - Yongjin Zhang
• 1990 - Chicken and Technology: The politics of the European Community's budget for research and development - Hugh Ward & Geoffrey Edwards
• 1986 - Negative sovereignty in sub-Saharan Africa - Robert H. Jackson

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