The Arthur Ross Book Award is a politics-related literary award.
History and administration
It was endowed in 2001 by Arthur Ross, an American businessman and philanthropist, 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 award is administered by the Council on Foreign Relations, an American nonprofit nonpartisan membership organization, publisher and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs.
2002Gold Medal – Robert Skidelsky for John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Freedom 1937–1946Silver Medal – Lawrence Freedman for Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and VietnamHonorable Mention – Walter Russell Mead and Richard C. Leone for Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World2003Gold Medal – Samantha Power for A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of GenocideSilver Medal – Margaret MacMillan for Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the WorldHonorable Mention – Philip Bobbitt for The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History2004Gold Medal – Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon for The Age of Sacred Terror: Radical Islam's War Against AmericaSilver Medal – Robert Cooper for The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty-First CenturyHonorable Mention – Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay for America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy2005Gold Medal – Steve Coll for Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001Silver Medal – Stephen Biddle for Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern BattleHonorable Mention – James Mann for Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet2006Gold Medal – Tony Judt for Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945Silver Medal – Olivier Roy for Globalized Islam: The Search for a New UmmahHonorable Mention – George Packer for The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq2007Gold Medal – Kwame Anthony Appiah for Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of StrangersSilver Medal – Robert L. Beisner for Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold WarHonorable Mention – Thomas E. Ricks for Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 20052008Gold Medal – Paul Collier for The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About ItSilver Medal – Trita Parsi for Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United StatesHonorable Mention – Robert Dallek for Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power2009Gold Medal – Philip P. Pan for Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New ChinaSilver Medal – Ahmed Rashid for Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central AsiaHonorable Mention – Gareth Evans for The Responsibility To Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All2010Gold Medal – Liaquat Ahamed for Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the WorldSilver Medal – Seth Jones for In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in AfghanistanHonorable Mention – Gérard Prunier for Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe2011Gold Medal – Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff for This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial FollySilver Medal – Thomas Hegghammer for Jihad in Saudi Arabia: Violence and Pan-Islamism since 1979Honorable Mention – Charles A. Kupchan for How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace2012Gold Medal – John Lewis Gaddis for George F. Kennan: An American LifeSilver Medal – Jason Stearns for Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of Congo and the Great War of AfricaHonorable Mention – Daniel Yergin for The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World2013Gold Medal - Fredrik Logevall for Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's VietnamSilver Medal - Anne Applebaum for Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956Honorable Mention - Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson for Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty2014Gold Medal - Gary Bass for The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten GenocideSilver Medal - Carter Malkasian for War Comes to Garmser: Thirty Years of Conflict on the Afghan FrontierHonorable Mention - Benn Steil for The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order2015Gold Medal – Thomas Piketty for Capital in the Twenty-First CenturySilver Medal – Stephen Kotkin for Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928Honorable Mention – Evan Osnos for Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China2016Gold Medal – Niall Ferguson for Kissinger: 1923–1968: The IdealistSilver Medal – Thomas J. Christensen for The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising PowerBronze Medal – Charles Moore for Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography—Volume II: Everything She Wants