Karl Deutsch Award

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The Karl Deutsch Award is awarded by the International Political Science Association (IPSA) each year an IPSA World Congress of Political Science is held. [1] The recipient of the award presents the Karl Deutsch Lecture or leads a special session at the World Congress. [2] The purpose of the award is to honour a prominent scholar engaged in cross-disciplinary research. [3] [4] It was named after the prominent political scientist Karl Deutsch. [2] According to a reputation survey conducted in 2013 and 2014, it is the third most prestigious international academic award in political science, after the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science and the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research. [5] [6]

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The award should not be confused with the "Karl Deutsch Award" awarded by the International Studies Association. The latter award bears the same name but is only awarded to outstanding scholars under 40 in the field of international relations. [7]

History

The award was first awarded at the 1997 World Congress, in memory of Karl Deutsch, a leading political scientist and the president of IPSA from 1976 to 1979, who died in November 1992. [2] The purpose of the Karl Deutsch Award is to honour a prominent scholar engaged in the cross-disciplinary research of which Karl Deutsch was a master. [2] [3]

Nomination and award

Nominations are received through the IPSA national and regional associations, and a decision is made on the recommendation of the Committee on Awards of the Association. The recipient is awarded 1,000 U.S. dollars, which is supported by the Karl Deutsch fund. [2]

Recipients

The Karl Deutsch Award has been awarded to: [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Official homepage of IPSA introducing the Award
  3. 1 2 Batten, Jack (1998). Awards, Honors & Prizes: International and Foreign 1998 (Awards, Honors, and Prizes Volume 2: International and Foreign). Gale Group. p. 398. ISBN   978-0787613495.
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  5. IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence. IREG List of International Academic Awards (PDF). Brussels: IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 March 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  6. Zheng, Juntao; Liu, Niancai (2015). "Mapping of important international academic awards". Scientometrics. 104 (3): 763–791. doi:10.1007/s11192-015-1613-7. S2CID   25088286.
  7. Karl Deutsch Award of ISA
  8. "Awards - Karl Deutsch Award". ipsa.org. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
  9. Academia Europaea
  10. Unspecified (2008), "Historical Social Research, Vol. 33 — 2008 — No. 4, 358-368 In Memoriam – Charles Tilly: 1929-2008" (PDF), Historical Social Research, 3 (4): 360, archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-09-27, retrieved 2013-09-26
  11. The above reference is a memorial article written after the death of Tilly in the journal Historical Social Research. But the journal does not mark who the author is, which can be seen at its achieve page Archived 2013-09-27 at the Wayback Machine .
  12. "John Coakley Named as the Recipient of the 2023 Karl Deutsch Award". International Political Science Association. Retrieved 17 July 2023.