Journal Description

2017 Best Article Prize

The prize for the best article to appear in the BJPIR has been awarded to Helen Thompson (University of Cambridge) on Inevitability and Contingency : the Political Economy of Brexit.

Congratulations are due to the prize-winner as well as those who were short-listed.


2016 Best Article Prize

The prize for the best article to appear in the BJPIR has been awarded to Douglas Kriner and Graham Wilson (both of Boston University) on The Elasticity of Reality and British Support for the War in Afghanistan. Douglas and/or Graham gave a public lecture at the University of Edinburgh based on their article in autumn 2017.

Short-listed for the best article prize were:

Jinghan Zeng, Constructing a “New Type of Great Power Relations”: the State Debate in China (1998-2014).

James Sloan, Diversity and Voice: the Political Participation of Young People in the European Union

Thomas Quinn, The British Labour Party’s Leadership Election of 2015

Congratulations are due to our prize-winners as well as those who were short-listed.


2015 Best Paper Prize Winner

Watch video interviews with the 2015 winner, Andrew Hindmoor, and shortlisted candidates Nicola J. Smith and Donna Lee here.

On Monday 14^th March, the University of Edinburgh hosted a public lecture to celebrate the award of the prize for the best article published in the BJPIR in 2015 by Stephen Bell and Andrew Hindmoor, 'Masters of the Universe But Slaves to the Market'. Prof Andrew Hindmoor of the University of Sheffield was the featured speaker, with commentary by Dr Iain Hardie and Prof Donald MacKenzie.

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations (BJPIR) is an international journal that publishes innovative, cutting edge contemporary scholarship on international relations, comparative politics, public policy, political theory and (especially) politics and policy in the United Kingdom. It is the world’s premier journal for research into British politics.

BJPIR is a fully refereed journal of the Political Studies Association of the UK. It has always sought to reflect and drive the major currents of debate in political science and international relations, both in the UK and internationally. The journal seeks to reflect and respond to the changing real world of politics, by publishing articles that are of contemporary relevance to both the study and practice of politics.Since its inception in 1999, in response to the growing internationalisation of the political studies community in the UK and beyond, the transnationalisation of the political science profession and the globalisation of politics, the journal has welcomed empirically rigorous and theoretically innovative articles on themes and issues that are of such global and scholarly significance that they matter for all states and countries irrespective of geographical location.