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Arthur Ross Book Award: Winners

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Past Winners of the Arthur Ross Book Award

2007 Awards
- Gold Medal
  Kwame Anthony Appiah
  Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (W.W. Norton)
- Silver Medal
  Robert L. Beisner
  Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War (Oxford University Press)
- Honorable Mention
  Thomas Ricks
  Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (The Penguin Press)
2006 Awards
- Gold Medal
  Tony Judt
  Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Penguin Press)
- Silver Medal
  Olivier Roy
  Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah (Columbia University Press)
- Honorable Mention
  George Packer
  The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2005 Awards
- Gold Medal
  Steve Coll
  Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Penguin Press)
- Silver Medal
  Stephen Biddle
  Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle (Princeton University Press)
- Honorable Mention
  James Mann
  Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet (Viking Books)
2004 Awards
- Gold Medal
  Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon
  The Age of Sacred Terror: Radical Islam’s War Against America (Random House)
- Silver Medal
  Robert Cooper
  The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty-First Century (Atlantic Monthly Press)
- Honorable Mention
  Ivo Daalder and James Lindsay
  America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy (Brookings Institution Press)
2003 Awards
- Gold Medal
  Samantha Power
  “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide (Basic Books)
- Silver Medal
  Margaret MacMillan
  Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World (Random House)
- Honorable Mention
  Philip Bobbitt
  The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History (Alfred A. Knopf)
2002 Awards
- Gold Medal
  Robert Skidelsky
  John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Freedom 1937-1946 (Viking)
- Silver Medal
  Lawrence Freedman
  Kennedy’s Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam (Oxford University Press)
- Honorable Mention
  Walter Russell Mead
  Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World (Alfred A. Knopf)
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Judt Wins ARBA

Tony Judt's Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Penguin Press) has won the Council’s fifth annual Arthur Ross Book Award for the best book published in the past two years on international affairs.
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