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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 the late Arthur Ross in 2001, is for nonfiction works from the past year, in English or translation, that merit special attention for:

  • bringing forth new information that changes the understanding of events or problems;
  • developing analytical approaches that offer insights into critical issues; or
  • introducing ideas that help resolve foreign policy problems.

2024 Medalists

Gold Medal
Steve Coll
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq

Silver Medal
Jonathan Blitzer
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and The Making of a Crisis

Bronze Medal
Sergey Radchenko
To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power

Arthur Ross Book Award Events

You can view past Arthur Ross Book Award events and read the transcripts here.

Past Winners

Here is the list of past winners of the Arthur Ross Book Award, 2005 through 2024.

Procedures

We are no longer accepting nominations for the 2024 award cycle. If you would like to nominate a book published in 2025 for the 2026 award, please email [email protected] with the following in the text of the email:

  • Book title
  • Book author
  • Publication date, including year
  • Publisher name

For any other inquiries, please email [email protected].

Jury

Gideon Rose (Chair)
Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

Lisa Anderson
Senior Lecturer and Dean Emerita, Columbia University

Kwame Anthony Appiah
Professor, Philosophy and Law, New York University

Sumit Ganguly
Senior Fellow, Director, Huntington Program on Strengthening US-India Relations, Hoover Institution

Michelle D. Gavin
Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Former U.S. Ambassador to Botswana

Paul D. Golob
President and Executive Editor, Deadline Management LLC

Calvin G. Sims
Executive Vice President of Standards and Practices, CNN

Andrew Ross Sorkin
Columnist and Assistant Business Editor, New York Times

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