Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni and J.C. Sharman Obtain the 2022 Heinz I. Eulau Award for Views on Politics –

The Heinz I. Eulau Award is introduced yearly by the American Political Science Affiliation (APSA) to honor one of the best article revealed within the APSA journal Views on Politics.

Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni is Professor of Worldwide Relations on the College of Cambridge, the place she is a Fellow of Sidney Sussex Faculty.  Her analysis focuses on worldwide group(s), together with questions of institutional design and alter, worldwide safety, and the rising function of non-state actors in international governance.  Her work has been revealed in main worldwide journals together with European Journal of Worldwide Relations, Worldwide Safety, Worldwide Research Quarterly, Journal of European Public Coverage, Views on Politics, and The Overview of Worldwide Organizations.  Her latest e book, co-authored with Jason Sharman, Vigilantes Past Borders: NGOs as Enforcers of Worldwide Legislation was revealed by Princeton College Press in April 2022.

Jason Sharman is the Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of Worldwide Relations within the Division of Politics and Worldwide Research on the College of Cambridge, in addition to a fellow of King’s Faculty, Cambridge.  He was educated in Australia, Russia and the USA, and earlier held positions on the American College in Bulgaria, the College of Sydney and Griffith College.  Sharman’s analysis is targeted on the worldwide regulation of cash laundering, corruption and offshore monetary centres, in addition to the worldwide relations of the early fashionable world.

Quotation from the Award Committee:

“Enforcers Past Borders” is a superb research of the rise, significance, and implications of NGO enforcement of worldwide legislation. Reconceptualizing first what constitutes “transnational enforcement,” Eilstrup-Sangiovanni and Sharman then argue that the failure of states to implement worldwide legislation, together with the emergence of recent applied sciences and new authorized cures have supplied the area for transnational actors’ forceful motion. In-depth case research of environmental safety and anti-corruption present successfully how NGO enforcement has gained better salience prior to now many years.

The facility of this text lies in its distinct capacity to deal with a query of very clear coverage significance whereas participating in first-rate social science expertise: conceptual evaluation, idea constructing, and case research growth. The implications of better NGO enforcement within the worldwide area increase additional questions in regards to the procedural legitimacy of transnational actors’ habits, in addition to the extent to which NGOs needs to be taking on the enforcement tasks of states. In pushing these difficult questions, Eilstrup-Sangiovanni and Sharman have efficiently opened up vital avenues for analysis for students in fields as various as worldwide legislation and comparative politics.

APSA thanks the committee members for his or her service: Dr. Erik Martinez Kuhonta (chair) of McGill College, Dr. Kristin Marie Bakke of College Faculty London, and Dr. Benjamin I. Web page of Northwestern College.