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The Council publishes books and reports for the interested public, the academic community, and foreign policy experts. Abstracts or full text of most of these books and reports are available on the Council’s website and hard copies can be purchased at local and online bookstores. Papers, op-eds, articles, and congressional testimony, written by Council staff and published elsewhere, are also available on the website. The Council’s flagship publication is Foreign Affairs, the preeminent journal on international affairs and foreign policy.
- Council fellows write books on timely and important policy issues, which may be published by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Press or by other trade and academic publishers. Critical Policy Choices are books designed to foster debate on key international issues by making the best case for each policy alternative in the form of a U.S. presidential speech.
- The Council on Foreign Relations Press publishes a variety of reports each year:
  - Independent Task Force Reports are consensus documents on U.S. foreign policy developed through private and nonpartisan deliberations.
  - Center for Preventive Action Commission Reports are consensus documents that offer recommendations with incentives—“carrots and sticks”—to unite stakeholders and modify the behavior of key local leaders when an armed conflict or a potential conflict arises.
  - Council Special Reports are concise policy briefs, which provide timely responses to developing crises or contributions to current policy dilemmas.
- Council fellows and research staff produce analysis and commentary:
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  - Testimony before Congress on specific U.S. foreign policy issues, often relating to the findings and recommendations of a Council report or paper.
- Foreign Affairs offers numerous resources online, including an archive of articles dating back to 1973. With a circulation of 160,000, the bimonthly journal is available by subscription and at bookstores and newsstands. The Foreign Affairs Academic Resource Program produces customized textbooks and anthologies compiled by the editors of Foreign Affairs for classroom use.
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.
The award consists of a $25,000 first prize, a $10,000 second prize, and a $5,000 honorable mention.

Learn more about the Arthur Ross Book Award
See the list of past winners
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