Call for submissions: GLOBALCIT – Rainer Bauböck 2025 Essay Award on the Global State of Citizenship
The Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT), a global research network committed to fact-based and non-partisan analysis of citizenship laws and electoral rights around the world, is soliciting submissions for the second edition of the GLOBALCIT – Rainer Bauböck 2025 Essay Award on the Global State of Citizenship, by early-career researchers (recent graduates with a master or equivalent degree, current doctoral researchers, or those within 3 years after the award of the doctorate).
Each year, the prize committee asks a question that the essays should try to answer. The question for the 2025 competition is: How will geopolitics affect future citizenship laws and policies?
We invite essays of up to 3,000 words. These should include a list of references (not included in the word count and following standard academic citation practices). Essays could explore how the attribution of citizenship can be weaponised against other states, whether the global trend towards toleration of multiple citizenship might be reversed or restricted to nationals of friendly states; how geopolitical concerns will affect extraterritorial citizenship offers to investors, kin minorities or on grounds of emigrant ancestry; and whether the aspirational norms of mutual recognition of citizenship between states and a human right to a nationality are likely to give way to patterns of discrimination between allied and enemy nationals. We welcome other creative, thought-provoking essays that align with the theme of the question.
The selected essay will be published on the GLOBALCIT website and in the Cadmus research repository of the European University Institute. The author of the best essay will receive a prize of 1,000 euros and will be invited to present the essay at a workshop in Florence on 8-9 May, 2025 (online or in person; travel funding cannot be provided).
The essays should be written in English and in a non-technical style that is accessible to a broader public audience. Essays should be submitted via email by 31 March 2025 at 23:59 CEST to globalcit@eui.eu, together with a short CV and photo.
For full details, visit the GLOBALCIT website.