Council on Foreign Relations: Arthur Ross Book Award

Council on Foreign Relations: Arthur Ross Book Award

"The annual Arthur Ross Book Award recognizes books that make an outstanding contribution to the understanding of foreign policy or international relations."

2007 Jury

• Rose Gottemoeller - Director, Carnegie Moscow Center
• Stanley Hoffmann - Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor, Harvard University
• James F. Hoge, Jr. - Chairman - Peter G. Peterson Chair and Editor, Foreign Affairs
• Robert W. Kagan - Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Miles Kahler - Rohr Professor of Pacific International Relations, University of California, San Diego
• Michael A. McFaul - Director, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University
• Stephen M. Walt - Professor of International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Awards

2007 Awards

• Gold Medal - Kwame Anthony Appiah - Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (W.W. Norton)
• Silver Medal - Robert L. Beisner - Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War (Oxford University Press)
• Honorable Mention - Thomas Ricks - Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (The Penguin Press)

2006 Awards

• Gold Medal - Tony Judt - Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Penguin Press)
• Silver Medal - Olivier Roy - Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah (Columbia University Press)
• Honorable Mention - George Packer - The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

2005 Awards

• Gold Medal - Steve Coll - Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Penguin Press)
• Silver Medal - Stephen Biddle - Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle (Princeton University Press)
• Honorable Mention - James Mann - Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet (Viking Books)

2004 Awards

• Gold Medal - Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon - The Age of Sacred Terror: Radical Islam’s War Against America (Random House)
• Silver Medal - Robert Cooper - The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty-First Century (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Honorable Mention - Ivo Daalder and James Lindsay - America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy (Brookings Institution Press)

2003 Awards

• Gold Medal - Samantha Power - “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide (Basic Books)
• Silver Medal - Margaret MacMillan - Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World (Random House)
• Honorable Mention - Philip Bobbitt - The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History (Alfred A. Knopf)

2002 Awards

• Gold Medal - Robert Skidelsky - John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Freedom 1937-1946 (Viking)
• Silver Medal - Lawrence Freedman - Kennedy’s Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam (Oxford University Press)
• Honorable Mention - Walter Russell Mead - Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World (Alfred A. Knopf)