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Stein Rokkan Prize (2006)

The XIIth Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research (2006) was awarded to Milada Anna Vachudova (USA) at a ceremony held in Paris, on 9 November 2007, during the ISSC Executive Committee’s 106th Session. The Prize was funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Knowledge. Professor Vachudova was awarded the prize for her book Europe undivided: democracy, leverage & integration after communism, published in 2005 by Oxford University Press. In judging this work, the Stein Rokkan Jury recognised that sound methodology, a rich and broad empirical basis, as well as analytical precision characterise Professor Vachudova’s research. Her book makes an important and original theoretical contribution to our understanding of the transition of the countries of the former Communist Bloc and speaks to several debates currently taken on by comparative politics, international relations and European studies.

Professor Vachudova is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. For her work on Europe Undivided, she is also the co-winner of the Marshall Shulman Book Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.

Europe undivided: Book Description

Europe Undivided analyzes how an enlarging EU has facilitated a convergence toward liberal democracy among credible future members of the EU in Central and Eastern Europe. It reveals how variations in domestic competition put democratizing states on different political trajectories after 1989, and how the EU's leverage eventually influenced domestic politics in liberal and particularly illiberal democracies. In doing so, Europe Undivided illuminates the changing dynamics of the relationship between the EU and candidate states from 1989 to 2004, and challenges policymakers to manage and improve EU leverage to support democracy, ethnic tolerance, and economic reform in other candidates and proto-candidates such as the Western Balkan states, Turkey, and Ukraine. Albeit not by design, the most powerful and successful tool of EU foreign policy has turned out to be EU enlargement - and this book helps us understand why, and how, it works.

See Oxford Scholarship Online for an abstract and further details of this book.

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