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.

The Academy is pleased to issue the Call for Submissions for the 2009 Douglas Dillon Book Award. The deadline for submissions is Monday, August 31, 2009, and eligibility is limited to books written by American citizens, published in the United States, and scheduled for publication within the period of September 1, 2008 and August 31, 2009.
>Access the guidelines and full 2009 Call for Submissions.

In 2008, the Academy presented the Douglas Dillon Book Award to Ambassador James Dobbins for his book After the Taliban: Nation- Building in Afghanistan,published by Potomac Books Inc.

In After the Taliban, Dobbins gives an inside account of nation-building efforts in Afghanistan. He explores the relationship between the Afghanistan and Iraq missions, and analyzes the administration's new role as nation-builder. Dobbins, who is one of America's most experienced diplomatic troubleshooters, lucidly illuminates how diplomacy is actually conducted and addresses the limitations of the United States' financial and military power. 

The Academy presented the Dillon Award to Amb. Dobbins at the Academy's annual awards luncheon, which was held on December 3, 2008 at the U.S. Department of State. Amb. Dobbins delivered the keynote speech at the luncheon, addressing the current situation in Afghanistan and his thoughts on the country's future. Read his remarks at the luncheon.


Previous winners of the Dillon Book Awards as well as Recipients of Academy Special Citations include:

2007
Robert L. Beisner, Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War, published by the Oxford University Press.

2006

Ralph Pezzullo , Plunging Into Haiti: Clinton, Aristide, and the Defeat of Diplomacy published by the University Press of Mississippi.
Special recognition was given to Amb. Edward J. Perkins and Connie Cronley for Mr. Ambassador: Warrior for Peace published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

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

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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