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• Past Winners of the Arthur Ross Book Award

  2009 Awards

  • Gold Medal
    Philip P. Pan
    Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China (Simon & Schuster)
  • Silver Medal
    Ahmed Rashid
    Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia (Penguin Group)
  • Honorable Mention
    Gareth Evans
    The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All (Brookings Institution Press)

  2008 Awards

  • Gold Medal
    Paul Collier
    The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Oxford University Press)
  • Silver Medal
    Trita Parsi
    Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States (Yale University Press)
  • Honorable Mention
    Robert Dallek
    Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power (HarperCollins Publisher)

  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)

  About the Arthur Ross Book Award

• Judt Wins ARBA

  Tony Judt's Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Penguin Press) has won the Council’s fifth annual Arthur Ross Book Award for the best book published in the past two years on international affairs.

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