The Arthur Ross Book Award was endowed in 2001 by Arthur Ross for the purpose of recognizing books that make an outstanding contribution to the understanding of foreign policy or international relations. The prize is for nonfiction works from the past two years, in English or translation, and is accompanied by a monetary award. The amount of the prize has varied from year to year but has sometimes consisted of a $30,000 Gold Medal, a $15,000 Silver Medal, and a $7,500 Honorable Mention . The Arthur Ross Book Award is administered by the Council on Foreign Relations.
Winners of the Arthur Ross Book Award:
- 2009 Gold Medal - Philip P. Pan for Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China
- 2009 Silver Medal - Ahmed Rashid for Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia
- 2009 Honorable Mention - Gareth Evans for The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All
- 2008 Gold Medal – Paul Collier for The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
- 2008 Silver Medal – Trita Parsi for Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States
- 2008 Honorable Mention – Robert Dallek for Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power
- 2007 Gold Medal – Kwame Anthony Appiah for Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
- 2007 Silver Medal – Robert L. Beisner for Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War
- 2007 Honorable Mention – Thomas E. Ricks for Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005
- 2006 Gold Medal – Tony Judt for Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
- 2006 Silver Medal – Olivier Roy for Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah
- 2006 Honorable Mention – George Packer for The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
- 2005 Gold Medal – Steve Coll for Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
- 2005 Silver Medal – Stephen Biddle for Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle
- 2005 Honorable Mention – James Mann for Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet
- 2004 Gold Medal – Daniel Benjamin, Steven Simon for The Age of Sacred Terror: Radical Islam's War Against America
- 2004 Silver Medal – Robert Cooper for The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty-First Century
- 2004 Honorable Mention – Ivo H. Daalder, James M. Lindsay for America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy
- 2003 Gold Medal – Samantha Power for A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
- 2003 Silver Medal – Margaret Macmillan for Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
- 2003 Honorable Mention – Philip Bobbitt for The Shield of Achilles
- 2002 Gold Medal – Robert Skidelsky for John Maynard Keynes: 1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman
- 2002 Silver Medal – Lawrence Freedman for Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam
- 2002 Honorable Mention – Walter Russell Mead, Richard C. Leone for Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World
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