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 diplomatic relations.
Access the 2008 Call for Entries for the Douglas Dillon Award
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A prodigiously researched
and superbly crafted biography that offers a keen appreciation of
this complex and fascinating man, the way he operated at home and
abroad, and the policies he devised when he was present at the creation
of a new era in America’s relations with the world. |
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Previous winners of the Dillon Book Awards as well as Recipients of Academy Special Citations include:
| 2006 |
Ralph
Pezzullo , Plunging Into Haiti: Clinton, Aristide, and the
Defeat of Diplomacy published by the University Press of Mississippi. |
| 2005 |
Joel Wit, Daniel Poneman, and Robert Gallucci, Going Critical: The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis, Brookings Institution Press |
2004 |
Richard B. Parker, Uncle Sam in Barbary: A Diplomatic History, University Press of Florida. |
| 2003 |
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. |
| 2002 |
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
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Jack
F. Matlock, Autopsy of an Empire, Random House |
