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.

2022 Shortlist

Meenakshi Ahamed
A Matter of Trust: India-U.S. Relations from Truman to Trump 

Rush Doshi
The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order

Fiona Hill
There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century

Colin Kahl and Thomas Wright
Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order

Carter Malkasian
The American War in Afghanistan: A History

Nicole Perlroth
This is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

Walter Pincus
Blown to Hell: America’s Deadly Betrayal of the Marshall Islanders

Mary Elise Sarotte
Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of a Post-Cold War Stalemate

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 2020.

Procedures

We are no longer accepting nominations for the 2021 award cycle. The deadline to submit nominations for the 2022 Arthur Ross Book Award was Monday, February 28, 2022. If you would like to nominate a book published in 2022 for the 2023 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)
Distinguished Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

Lisa Anderson
President Emerita, American University in Cairo

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

Sumit Ganguly
Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, Indiana University at Bloomington

Michelle D. Gavin
Senior Fellow for Africa 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

Sue Mi Terry
Senior Fellow, Korea Chair, Center for Strategic & International Studies

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