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Meeting
2025 Arthur Ross Book Award Ceremony and Meeting: "The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq”
Thursday,
January 15, 2026
Join Gideon Rose for the 2025 Arthur Ross Book Award ceremony honoring this year’s medalists: Steve Coll, Jonathan Blitzer, and Sergey Radchenko.
The program will feature the award presentation and a conversation with Steve Coll on the intelligence failures and strategic misjudgments that shaped the origins of America’s invasion of Iraq.
CFR’s 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.