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Douglas
Dillon Award
for Distinguished Writing on American Diplomacy
In 1995, the Academy
began to award an annual prize for a book of distinction on the practice
of American diplomacy. The Academy hopes that this prize will stimulate
further academic research on the way American diplomacy is exercised and
will also deepen public understanding of the critical need for excellence
in our diplomacy.
2006
Call for Entries >>>
| In
2005, this prize was presented to Joel Wit, Daniel Poneman, and
Robert Gallucci for the book Going Critical: The First North
Korean Nuclear Crisis published by Brookings Institution Press,
Washington, DC, 2005.
The award recipient
is selected by a committee of Academy members, Chaired by Samuel
W. Lewis, former Ambassador to Israel. |
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Previous
winners of the Dillon Book Awards as well as Recipients of Academy Special
Citations include:
| 2004 |
Richard
B. Parker, Uncle
Sam in Barbary: A Diplomatic History, University
Press of Florida. |
2003
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Warren
Zimmerman, America's First Great Triumph: How Five Americans
Made Their Country a World Power, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Citation to Robert Miller, Vietnam and Beyond: A Diplomat’s
Cold War Education. |
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John
Boykin, Cursed
is the Peacemaker: The American Diplomat vs. the Israeli General,
Beirut, 1982,
Applegate
Press. Special Citation to Princeton Lyman, Partner to History:
The US Role in South Africa’s Transition to Democracy. |
| 2001 |
David
McCullough, John Adams, Simon & Schuster. Special Citation
to Dennis Kux,
The United States and Pakistan 1947-2000; Disenchanted Allies. |
| 2000 |
Herman
J. Cohen, Intervening in Africa: Superpower Peacemaking in a Troubled
Continent, MacMillan/St. Martin’s Press.
William J. Gleysteen, Jr., Massive Entanglement, Marginal Influence:
Carter and Korea in Crisis, Brookings Institution Press. |
| 1999 |
James
Chace, Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American
World, Simon & Schuster. |
| 1998 |
Dr.
Leon Sigal, Disarming Strangers: Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea,
Princeton University Press. |
| 1997 |
Warren
Zimmermann, Origins of a Catastrophe: Yugoslavia and its Destroyers,
Times Books/Random House. |
| 1996 |
Jack
F. Matlock, Autopsy of an Empire, Random House
Condoleeza Rice and Philip Zelikow, Germany Unified and Europe
Transformed, Harvard University Press . |
| 1995 |
David
Mayers, The Ambassadors and America’s Soviet Policy, Oxford
University Press. |
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