* * * HEIRS Essay Prize 2006 * * *

The History of European Integration Research Society is launching its
Essay Prize Competition 2006.

This year we especially encourage contributions from all post-graduate
students and young researchers that tie European integration history
to any aspect of the Cold War broadly defined. The winning essay will
be submitted for publication in the journal Cold War History,
published by the Taylor & Francis Group and housed by the LSE Cold War
Studies Centre. The winning paper will be published after having gone
through the peer-review procedure.

Papers will be short-listed by the HEIRS Committee and the best four
papers will be forwarded to a panel of leading historians. For this
year's competition, the judges are: Prof. Gérard Bossuat (Université
de Cergy-Pontoise), Prof. Robert Gildea (University of Oxford), Dr
Piers Ludlow (London School of Economics) and Prof. Wolfgang Schmale
(Universität Wien).

The deadline for submission is Friday, 31 March 2006.

Manuscripts should be submitted in RTF as an email attachment to
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The result will be announced on Monday, 15 May 2006 and publication
will take place in due course.

Format and style
All manuscripts must be written in English or in French. While under
consideration for the HEIRS Essay Prize, papers should not be under
consideration for any other publication. If another version of the
article is under consideration by another publication, or has been, or
will be published elsewhere, authors should clearly indicate this at
the time of submission.

Manuscripts should be between 7,000 and 10,000 words (including
endnotes and references). The articles should begin with an abstract
of around 100 words, which should describe the main arguments and
conclusions.

To facilitate the typesetting process, notes should be grouped
together at the end of the file. A short biographical note of around
50 words (including the author's institutional affiliation and current
and forthcoming projects) should be submitted in a separate file. In
addition, full contact details (including postal address), any
acknowledgements, and a note of the exact length of the article should
be included in that file.

It will be the authors' responsibility to ensure that where copyright
materials are included within an article the permission of the
copyright holder has been obtained. Confirmation of this should be
included with the submission.

For more information: www.intstudies.cam.ac.uk/jmce/heirs.html 
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