Lionel Gelber Prize

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Awarded by the Lionel Gelber Foundation in partnership with the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto and Foreign Policy

The Gelber Prize is a literary award for the

visa mer world's best non-fiction book in English that seeks to deepen public debate on significant global issues

Lionel Gelber Prize website visa färre

Stadier:
Alla, Winner (33), Shortlist (88), Longlist (8)
År:
Alla, 2024 (5), 2023 (1), 2022 (5), 2021 (5), 2020 (5), 2019 (5), 2018 (5), 2017 (4), 2016 (5), 2015 (5), 2014 (5), 2013 (12), 2012 (6), 2011 (5), 2010 (5), 2009 (5), 2008 (5), 2007 (5), 2006 (5), 2004 (5), 2003 (4), 2002 (5), 2001 (5), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1)
Utannonseras:
februari 8: Finalister2024 Nyliga

Winner 33

VerkÅr
Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise av Susan L. Shirk2023
The American War in Afghanistan: A History av Carter Malkasian2022
Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace av Matthew C. Klein2021
The Light that Failed: A Reckoning av Ivan Krastev2020
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World av Adam Tooze2019
Röd hungersnöd : Stalins krig mot Ukraina av Anne Applebaum2018
A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS av Robert F. Worth2016
Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone av Scott Shane2016
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union av Serhii Plokhy2015
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide av Gary J. Bass2014
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else av Chrystia Freeland2013
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China av Ezra F. Vogel2012
Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America av Shelagh D. Grant2011
The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China av Jay Taylor2010
A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East av Lawrence Freedman2009
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It av Paul Collier2008
al-Qaida och vägen till 11 september av Lawrence Wright2007
Spräng bojorna : kampen mot slavhandeln av Adam Hochschild2006
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 av Steve Coll2004
America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy av Ivo H. Daalder2003
Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World av Walter Russell Mead2002
John Maynard Keynes, Vol. 3: Fighting for Freedom, 1937-1946 av Robert Skidelsky2001
A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China av Patrick Tyler2000
Kung Leopolds vålnad av Adam Hochschild1999
Loosing the Bonds: The United States and South Africa in the Apartheid Years av Robert Kinloch Massie1998
Aftermath: the Remnants of War: From Landmines to Chemical Warfare--The Devastating Effects of Modern Combat av Donovan Webster1997
Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev av Vladislav Zubok1996
The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 av Eric Hobsbawm1995
Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism av Michael Ignatieff1994
Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World av Kanan Makiya1993
Truman av David McCullough1992
Code of peace : ethics and security in the world of the warlord states av Dorothy V. Jones1991
The Search for Modern China av Jonathan D. Spence1990

Shortlist 88

VerkÅr
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity av Daron Acemoglu2024
Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy av Henry Farrell2024
Europa : en personlig historia av Timothy Garton Ash2024
Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization av Harold James2024
We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age av Wendy H. Wong2024
To End a Plague: America's Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa av Emily Bass2022
The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy and the Displacement of American Power (Bridging the Gap) av Rush Doshi2022
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe av Niall Ferguson2022
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918–1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust av Jeffrey Veidlinger2022
Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs av Peter Andreas2021
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism av Anne Applebaum2021
Isolationism: A History of America's Efforts to Shield Itself from the World av Charles A. Kupchan2021
War: How Conflict Shaped Us av Margaret MacMillan2021
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty av Daron Acemoglu2020
Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow's Terrorists av Audrey Kurth Cronin2020
The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent av Peter Gatrell2020
Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017 av Ian Kershaw2020
No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria av Rania Abouzeid2019
The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State av Elizabeth C. Economy2019
How Democracies Die av Steven Levitsky2019
Vägen till ofrihet av Timothy Snyder2019
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? av Graham Allison2018
The Future of War: A History av Lawrence Freedman2018
The Internationalists and their plan to outlaw war av Oona A. Hathaway2018
Asia's Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century av Richard McGregor2018
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon av Rosa Brooks2017
Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World av Shadi Hamid2017
The Invention of Russia: The Rise of Putin and the Age of Fake News av Arkady Ostrovsky2017
Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran av Laura Secor2017
Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, The Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History av Barry Eichengreen2016
Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist av Niall Ferguson2016
The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution av Dominic Lieven2016
The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire av Susan Pedersen2016
The Good War: Why We Couldn’t Win the War or the Peace in Afghanistan av Jack Fairweather2015
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China av Evan Osnos2015
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel av Ari Shavit2015
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp av Lawrence Wright2015
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941 av Lynne Olson2014
Bomben : ett knapptryck från kärnvapenkrig av Eric Schlosser2014
Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present av Brendan Simms2014
The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order av Benn Steil2014
Järnridån : [det kommunistiska maktövertagandet i Östeuropa 1945--1956] av Anne Applebaum2013
The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics av Paul Bracken2013
Ghosts of Empire: Britain's Legacies in the Modern World av Kwasi Kwarteng2013
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia av Pankaj Mishra2013
A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War av Amanda Foreman2012
George F. Kennan: An American Life av John Lewis Gaddis2012
Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth av Frederick Kempe2012
On China av Henry Kissinger2012
The Hungry World: America's Cold War Battle against Poverty in Asia av Nick Cullather2011
Why the West Rules—For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future av Ian Morris2011
Yalta: The Price of Peace av Serhii Plokhy2011
Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World av Doug Saunders2011
Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West av Christopher Caldwell2010
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy av David E. Hoffman2010
The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget: Murder and Memory in Uganda av Andrew Rice2010
The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006–2008 av Thomas E. Ricks2010
Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape Our Next Decade av Bill Emmott2009
McMaffia : brottslighet utan gränser av Misha Glenny2009
Descent into Chaos: The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia av Ahmed Rashid2009
The Post-American World av Fareed Zakaria2009
Multicultural Odysseys av Will Kymlicka2008
The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism av Erez Manela2008
Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia av Richard J. Samuels2008
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA av Tim Weiner2008
Dangerous Nation av Robert Kagan2007
Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World av Margaret MacMillan2007
The International Struggle Over Iraq av David M. Malone2007
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq av Thomas E. Ricks2007
The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting it Right av Daniel Benjamin2006
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya av Caroline Elkins2006
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time av Jeffrey D. Sachs2006
Taming American Power av Stephen M. Walt2006
The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror av Michael Ignatieff2004
The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace av Dennis Ross2004
Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah av Olivier Roy2004
A New World Order av Anne-Marie Slaughter2004
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World av Margaret MacMillan2003
The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland av Karl Ernest Meyer2003
Frihetens framtid : oliberal demokrati i USA och övriga världen av Fareed Zakaria2003
The Chastening: Inside The Crisis That Rocked The Global Financial System And Humbled The Imf av Paul Blustein2002
The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone av Joseph S. Nye Jr.2002
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide av Samantha Power2002
Strangers in the House av Raja Shehadeh2002
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan av Herbert P. Bix2001
Ho Chi Minh av William J. Duiker2001
The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000 av Niall Ferguson2001
Night of Stone av Catherine Merridale2001

Longlist 8

VerkÅr
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty av Daron Acemoglu2013
The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran av David Crist2013
The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack Obama av Michael R. Gordon2013
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam av Fredrik Logevall2013
Soldater : om kamp, dödande och död av Sönke Neitzel2013
The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949 av S. C. M. Paine2013
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy av Andrew Preston2013
The Russian Origins of the First World War av Sean McMeekin2012

Beskrivningar

Awarded by the Lionel Gelber Foundation in partnership with the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto and Foreign Policy

The Gelber Prize is a literary award for the world's best non-fiction book in English that seeks to deepen public debate on significant global issues

Lionel Gelber Prize website

(English, Medlemsbidrag)

Began in 1990. There is no award dated 2005 as the 2006 award brought the year of the award into line with the actual year awarded.

(English, Teknisk/särskiljnings- kommentar)

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