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)