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 announce call for submissions for the 2010 Dillon Book Award. The deadline for submission of nominations for the fifteenth year of this award is Tuesday, August 31, 2010. The award for the winning entry this year includes a cash prize of $5,000. The award is customarily presented at the Academy’s Annual Awards Luncheon Ceremony in the Benjamin Franklin Room in the Department of State.
Eligibility is limited to books written by American citizens, published in the United States, and scheduled for publication within the period of September 1, 2009 and August 31, 2010. The Academy seeks to honor books, and their authors, dealing with the practice of American diplomacy with emphasis on the way U.S. foreign policy is developed and carried out, rather than international theory, studies of broad foreign policy issues, or analyses of intelligence and security operations. Biographies, autobiographies, and personal memoirs that relate to diplomatic practice and process are welcome. Both official diplomatic relations between governments and non-official “Track –Two” and other activities that supplement government-to-government diplomacy fall within the scope of this competition. We are particularly interested in books that focus on the opportunities diplomacy offers as well as its limitations.
To submit books for consideration for this year’s Douglas Dillon Award, please send five (5) review copies to the American Academy of Diplomacy, whose contact details are provided below. We look forward to receiving your submissions.
Contact: Elizabeth Burrell, American Academy of Diplomacy
1200 18th Street, NW, Suite 902, Washington, D.C. 20036
Telephone: 202-331-3721
Fax: 202-833-4555
Email: eburrell@academyofdiplomacy.org
The 2009 Dillon Book Award was awarded to Ambassador Howard B. Schaffer for his book The Limits of Influence: America's Role in Kashmir, published by Brookings Institution Press.
In The Limits of Influence, veteran diplomat Howard B. Schaffer provides the first comprehensive account of U.S. efforts to forge a settlement between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. Drawing on interviews with senior American officials, archival research, and decades of personal experience in South Asia, he examines three generations of U.S. policy, beginning in 1948 when fighting erupted in Kashmir and India brought the issue to the United Nations.
The Academy presented the Dillon Award to Amb. Schaffer at the Academy's annual awards luncheon on December 3, 2009 at the U.S. Department of State.
Previous
winners of the Dillon Book Awards as well as Recipients of Academy Special
Citations include:
2008 |
Ambassador James F. Dobbins, After the Taliban: Nation-Building in Afghanistan, published by Potomac Books Inc. |
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. |
| 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 |
1995 |
David Mayers, The Ambassadors and America’s Soviet Policy, Oxford University Press. |
