Broad impact? Broad scope? Originality? Interdisciplinary Significance? There's one obvious candidate, the only problem being that it's written by an economist: Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion. Compare this to the pseudo-theoretical realist works that keep cropping up in the comments over on Drezner's blog and we might see where the "discipline" of IR is going wrong. (I have to say I like Dan Deudney's book too!)
my brain hurts from reading the polisci job rumors thread. that's a part of my life i'll never get back.
Man, it's both ugly and quite adolescent over at Political Science Job Rumors. Guess that's what happens when everyone posts as "anonymous."
Too low-brow for regular Duck readers, IMO.
Anyone who spends more than about 3 minutes at PSJR is a worse person for it. It's the cesspool of our discipline.
On topic: an "IR book of the decade" seems *so* 90s to me. Why don't we just leave it there.
highly suspicious the previous award was established to recognize Alex Wendt, since he didn't won book of the year prize. If awarded previously the obvious winners are:
1979/80 Kenneth Waltz TIP, 1989/90 Keohane After Hegemony, no book(s) simmering for the whole decade? Ikenberry or Mearsheimer? The obvious themes of this decade are terrorism, Iraq War, climate change, and rise of China. Books speaking to these themes ought win.
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