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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.

2026 Shortlist

Nominating Procedures

We are no longer accepting nominations for the 2026 award cycle. If you would like to nominate a book published in 2026 for the 2027 award, please email [email protected] with the following in the text of the email:

  • Book title

  • Book author

  • Publication date, including year

  • Publisher name

The deadline for 2027 award nominations is March 26, 2027. For any other inquiries, please email [email protected].

Jury

Gideon Rose (Chair)
Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

Lisa Anderson
Senior Lecturer and Dean Emerita, Columbia University

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

Jose Fernandez
Founder and President, Shelter Island Global Advisors LLC

Sumit Ganguly
Senior Fellow, Director, Huntington Program on Strengthening US-India Relations, Hoover Institution

Michelle D. Gavin
Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy 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

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