Arthur Ross Book Award

The Arthur Ross Book Award is a politics-related literary award.

Arthur Ross Book Award
Awarded forLiterature (politics-related)
CountryUnited States
Presented by • Arthur Ross (endowment in 2001)
 • Council on Foreign Relations (administration)
Reward(s)Varies
First awarded2002
Websitewww.cfr.org/arthur-ross-book-award

History and administration

It was endowed in 2001 by Arthur Ross, an American businessman and philanthropist,[1] for the purpose of recognizing books that make an outstanding contribution to the understanding of foreign policy or international relations. The prize is for nonfiction works from the past two years, in English or translation, and is accompanied by a monetary award. The amount of the prize has varied from year to year but has sometimes consisted of a $30,000 "Gold Medal", a $15,000 "Silver Medal" and a $7,500 "Honorable Mention".

The award is administered by the Council on Foreign Relations, an American nonprofit nonpartisan membership organization, publisher and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs.

List of winners

2000s
2002
  • Gold Medal – Robert Skidelsky for John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Freedom 1937–1946
  • Silver Medal – Lawrence Freedman for Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam
  • Honorable Mention – Walter Russell Mead and Richard C. Leone for Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World
2003
2004
  • Gold Medal – Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon for The Age of Sacred Terror: Radical Islam's War Against America
  • Silver Medal – Robert Cooper for The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty-First Century
  • Honorable Mention – Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay for America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy
2005
  • Gold Medal – Steve Coll for Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
  • Silver Medal – Stephen Biddle for Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle
  • Honorable Mention – James Mann for Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet
2006
2007
2008
2009
  • Gold Medal – Philip P. Pan for Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China
  • Silver Medal – Ahmed Rashid for Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia
  • Honorable Mention – Gareth Evans for The Responsibility To Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All

2010s
2010
  • Gold Medal – Liaquat Ahamed for Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
  • Silver Medal – Seth Jones for In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan
  • Honorable Mention – Gérard Prunier for Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe
2011
  • Gold Medal – Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff for This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
  • Silver Medal – Thomas Hegghammer for Jihad in Saudi Arabia: Violence and Pan-Islamism since 1979
  • Honorable Mention – Charles A. Kupchan for How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace
2012
2013[2]
2014[3]
2015
2016
  • Gold Medal – Niall Ferguson for Kissinger: 1923–1968: The Idealist
  • Silver Medal – Thomas J. Christensen for The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power
  • Bronze Medal – Charles Moore for Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography—Volume II: Everything She Wants
2017[4]
  • Gold Medal – John Pomfret for The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present
  • Silver Medal – Robert F. Worth for A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, From Tahrir Square to ISIS
  • Bronze Medal – Svetlana Alexievich for Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
2018
  • Gold Medal – Stephen Kotkin for Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941
  • Silver Medal – Michael Green (political_expert) for By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783
  • Bronze Medal – Masha Gessen for The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
2019
  • Gold Medal – Jill Lepore for These Truths: A History of the United States
  • Silver Medal – Andrew Roberts for Churchill: Walking with Destiny
  • Bronze Medal – Max Hastings for Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975

See also

References
  1. Martin, Douglas (September 11, 2007). "Arthur Ross, Investor and Philanthropist Who Left Mark on the Park, Dies at 96". The New York Times. Retrieved February 23, 2012.
  2. "Fredrik Logevall Wins CFR's 2013 Arthur Ross Book Award for "Embers of War"". Council on Foreign Relations. December 16, 2013. Retrieved August 29, 2014.
  3. "The Blood Telegram by Gary Bass Wins CFR's 2014 Arthur Ross Book Award". Council on Foreign Relations. November 25, 2014. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
  4. "John Pomfret's "The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom" Wins 2017 CFR Arthur Ross Book Award". Council on Foreign Relations. November 15, 2017. Retrieved December 23, 2017.
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