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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:
The award consists of a $30,000 first prize, a $15,000 second prize, and a $7,500 honorable mention.
See the list of past winners, 2002 through 2007.
The winning books are proposed by a wide-ranging nominating committee and chosen by a jury made up of scholars, practitioners, and businesspeople.
Rose Gottemoeller
Director
Carnegie Moscow Center
Stanley Hoffmann
Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor
Harvard University
James F. Hoge Jr., Chairman
Peter G. Peterson Chair and Editor
Foreign Affairs
Robert W. Kagan
Senior Associate
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Miles Kahler*
Rohr Professor of Pacific International Relations
University of California, San Diego
Michael A. McFaul
Director, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
Stanford University
Daniel K. Tarullo
Professor of Law
Georgetown University
Stephen M. Walt
Professor of International Affairs
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
*on leave for 2008 sabbatical
For information on submissions, please send inquiries to:
Jackie
McKeon
Assistant to the Vice President
NY Meetings Program
Council on Foreign Relations
58 East 68th Street
New York, NY 10065
fax: +1-212-434-9804
email: jmckeon@cfr.org
If you are interested in having a book be considered by the nominating committee for the 2009 Arthur Ross Book Award, please send a one page description to my attention by e-mail no later than November 14, 2008.
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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