Awards Luncheon
US State Department
December 5, 2007
Event Summary
With the increasingly prevalent global challenges
posed by terrorism, international trade, energy security, climate change,
nuclear proliferation and civil conflict, the Academy is pleased that its 2007 annual awards luncheon focused on how the Academy is intensifying
its work on strengthening American diplomacy and explaining its realities
to the public. The Academy and Patrick
F. Kennedy, Under Secretary of State for Management, hosted the luncheon
on December 5 at the US Department of State in the Benjamin Franklin Room.
Senator Chuck Hagel delivered the
keynote speech, which focused on his thoughts about a new direction for
American foreign policy in the next Administration, and the need to strengthen
the resources and tools that support America's foreign relations.
The Academy announced this year's winner of the Walter
and Leonore Annenberg Award for Excellence in Diplomacy to Ambassador
Christopher Hill. The Arthur
Ross Award for Distinguished Reporting & Analysis of Foreign Affairs
was awarded to Thomas Ricks of the Washington Post, and also to the Latin America Staff of the Miami Hearld .
The Douglas
Dillon Award for a book of distinction on the practice of American
diplomacy was presented to Mr. Robert L. Beisner for his biography of Dean
Acheson, A Life in the Cold War. The American Academy of Diplomacy annually grants these prestigious
awards to recognize major contributions to the field of diplomacy, and
to stimulate further interest in and public understanding of the need
for excellence in the practice of American diplomacy.
>Read
the Press Release
>See Photos from the Annual Awards Luncheon
>Remarks by
Ambassador Ronald Neumann
>Remarks by Ambassador Christopher
Hill
>Listen to Senator Chuck Hagel's Keynote Speech (mp3)
>In the News: "Herald
Honored for Coverage of Latin America" in the Miami Hearld
