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 2010.


Shortlist Announced for 2011 Arthur Ross Book Award

  • Thomas Hegghammer
    Jihad in Saudi Arabia: Violence and Pan-Islamism since 1979 (Cambridge University Press)
  • Robert Jervis
    Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War (Cornell University Press)
  • Robert D. Kaplan
    Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power (Random House)
  • Charles A. Kupchan
    How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace (Princeton University Press)
  • Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff
    This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (Princeton University Press)

Procedures and Jury

Stanley Hoffmann
Paul & Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor, Harvard University

James F. Hoge Jr. (Chairman)
Counselor, Council on Foreign Relations

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

Miles Kahler
Rohr Professor of Pacific International Relations, University of California, San Diego

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
Associate Director
New York Meetings Program
Council on Foreign Relations
58 East 68th Street
New York, New York 10065
Fax: +1 212-434-9804
Email: mmills@cfr.org

If you are interested in having a book be considered by the nominating committee for the 2012 Arthur Ross Book Award, please send a one page description to my attention by e-mail no later than November 15, 2011.


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