Arthur Ross Book Award

Logo of the 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. The prize, endowed by Arthur Ross in 2001, is for nonfiction works (including biography) from the past two years, in English or translation, that merit special attention for:

  • bringing forth new information that can change our understanding of events or problems;
  • developing analytical approaches that allow new and different insights into a key issue;
  • or providing new ideas to help resolve foreign-policy problems.

See the list of past winners, 2002 through 2011.


2012 Awards

Gold Medal
John Lewis Gaddis
George F. Kennan: An American Life (The Penguin Press)

Silver Medal
Jason Stearns
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of Congo and the Great War of Africa (PublicAffairs)

Honorable Mention
Daniel Yergin
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World (The Penguin Press)

Procedures and Jury

Stanley Hoffmann
Paul & Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor, Harvard University

Robert W. Kagan
Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution

Gideon Rose (Chairman)
Peter G. Peterson Chair and Editor, Foreign Affairs

Mary Elise Sarotte
Professor of International Relations, University of Southern California

Stephen M. Walt
Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University


For information on submissions, please send inquiries to:

Meaghan Mills Fulco
Deputy Director
New York Meetings
Council on Foreign Relations
58 East 68th Street
New York, New York 10065
Fax: +1 212-434-9804
Email: mfulco@cfr.org

If you are interested in having a book be considered by the nominating committee for the 2013 Arthur Ross Book Award, please send a one page description to my attention by e-mail no later than January 15, 2013.


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