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March 8, 2002
Council on Foreign Relations
NEW YORK, March 8, 2002 – The Council on Foreign Relations has announced the short list for the first annual Arthur Ross Book Award. The prize is for a book that has made an outstanding contribution to the understanding of foreign policy or international relations.
The finalists are:
Kennedy’s Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam
(Oxford University Press)
Special Providence: American Foreign Policy
and How It Changed the World
(Knopf)
John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Freedom 1937-1946
(Viking)
The Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award is the largest U.S. award for a book on international affairs. It was endowed by Arthur Ross in 2001 to honor a non-fiction work from any recent year, in English or in translation, which merits special attention for its analysis of important events, its contribution to solving pressing political or economic problems, or its impact in galvanizing new thinking about the way long-standing issues of international concern are viewed.
The winner of the award will receive $10,000.
The jury will meet on April 30 to determine the winner of this year’s award, who will then be honored at a dinner at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York in June.
For further information about the award, please contact Jeffrey Reinke at 212-434-9452 or jreinke@cfr.org, or go to cfr.org.
Arthur Ross Book Award Jury
S. Lael Brainard
Senior Fellow, Economic and Foreign Policy Studies
The Brookings Institution
Joy A. de Menil
Editor
Random House
Leslie H. Gelb
President
Council on Foreign Relations
Rose Gottemoeller
Senior Associate
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Stanley Hoffmann
Paul & Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor
Harvard University
James F. Hoge, Jr.
Peter G. Peterson Chair & Editor
Foreign Affairs
Robert W. Kagan
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Michael Mandelbaum
Christian Herter Professor
The Johns Hopkins University
Arthur Ross(Ex Officio)
Vice Chairman
United Nations Association of the U.S.A.
Stephen M. Walt
Professor of International Affairs
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
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In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.
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