Arthur Ross Book Award 2015-2023

27 books

The annual Arthur Ross Book Award recognizes books that make an outstanding contribution to the understanding of foreign policy or international relations.

Chip War

The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller, 2022

Silver Medal

Overreach

How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise

Susan L. Shirk, 2022

Bronze Medal

Spin Dictators

The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century

Daniel Treisman, Sergei Guriev, 2023

2022

Gold Medal

The American War in Afghanistan

A History

Carter Malkasian, 2021

Silver Medal

Not One Inch

America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate

M. E. Sarotte, 2021

Bronze Medal

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends

Winner of the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2021

Nicole Perlroth, 2021

2021

Gold Medal

The Price of Peace

Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes

Zachary D. Carter, 2021

Silver Medal

The Man Who Ran Washington

The Life and Times of James A. Baker III

Peter Baker, Susan Glasser, 2021

Bronze Medal

The Upswing

How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again

Robert D. Putnam, 2020

2020

Gold Medal

Say Nothing

A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Patrick Radden Keefe, 2019

Silver Medal

Our Man

Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century

George Packer, 2019

Bronze Medal

The Anarchy

The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

William Dalrymple, 2019

2019

Gold Medal

These Truths

A History of the United States

Jill Lepore, 2019

Silver Medal

Churchill

Walking with Destiny

Andrew Roberts, 2018

Bronze Medal

Vietnam

An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975

Max Hastings, 2018

2018

Gold Medal

Stalin

Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941

Stephen Kotkin, 2017

Silver Medal

By More Than Providence

Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783

Michael J. Green, 2017

Bronze Medal

The Future is History

How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

Masha Gessen, 2017

2017

Gold Medal

The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom

America and China, 1776 to the Present

John Pomfret, 2016

Silver Medal

A Rage for Order

The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS

Robert F. Worth, 2016

Bronze Medal

Secondhand Time

The Last of the Soviets

Svetlana Alexievich, 2016

2016

Gold Medal

Kissinger

1923-1968: The Idealist

Niall Ferguson, 2015

Silver Medal

The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power

Thomas J. Christensen, 2015

Bronze Medal

Margaret Thatcher

The Authorized Biography, Volume Two: Everything She Wants

Charles Moore, 2015

2015

Gold Medal

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Thomas Piketty, 2017

Silver Medal

Stalin, Vol. I

Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

Stephen Kotkin, 2014

Honorable Mention

Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

Evan Osnos, 2014