Abstract
With the ambition of acknowledging fully the often overlooked work of reviewers, the editors of Cooperation and Conflict have decided to award a Best Review Prize of €1000 for the second time. It was awarded for the first time in 2017 and will continue to be awarded annually for the best review of an article, or set of articles, published in the previous year’s volume of the journal.
In connection with the special issue of Everyday IR, we are proud to announce that Professor Brent Steele receives 2018’s Best Review Prize for having gone far beyond the expectations that editors might have when it comes to colleagues taking on the responsibility of reviewing original submissions and following up on manuscripts later in the process. As a reviewer, Brent has proved to be knowledgeable of the themes and topics at hand and able to provide encouraging and constructive yet critical comments to guide the authors and to help them situate their contributions within the broad field of IR scholarship. As per the specified criteria for the Best Review Prize, his efforts as a reviewer have enhanced and refined the theoretical originality and arguments, improved the methodological rigour and helped extract the empirical richness of the reviewed manuscripts. In addition to helping submitting authors to improve their work significantly, his comments encouraged discussions among the editors concerning the interplay of the micro and macro politics of IR. Thus, Brent has successfully acted as a critical and constructive reviewer in relation to individual submissions and as a scholar able both to make broader connections and to introduce novel reflections regarding the future of the field of IR. In light of this, it is our great pleasure to give Cooperation and Conflict’s Best Review Prize 2018 to Professor Brent Steele. The review of the articles in the special issue of Everyday IR is published in this issue. 1
On behalf of Cooperation and Conflict,
Professor Annika Björkdahl, Editor in Chief
Assistant Professor Martin Hall, Editor
Assistant Professor Ted Svensson, Editor