Douglas Dillon Award
for Distinguished Writing on American Diplomacy

High Value TargetWe are pleased to announce the 2011 Douglas Dillon Book Award winner, Ambassador Edmund J. Hull, for his book High Value Target: Countering Al-Qaeda in Yemen (Potomac Books, April 2011).

In this book Amb. Hull shares his experiences as chief of mission in Yemen in the early 2000s. It is a skillfull depiction of how a well-led embassy can play a crucial role in dealing with critical problems in U.S. foreign and security policy.

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.

 


 

2012 Submission Information:

Eligibility is limited to books written by American citizens, published in the United States, and scheduled for publication within the period of September 1, 2011 and August 31, 2012. The deadline for submission is Friday, September 7, 2012.

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.

Please send FIVE copies of the book to Elizabeth Burrell, the Academy's Program Director, at 1200 18th Street NW, Suite 902, Washington, DC 20036. If you have any questions, please contact academy@academyofdiplomacy.org.

 


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

2010
Lynne Joiner, Honorable Survivor: Mao's China, McCarthy's America and the Persecution of John S. Service
2009
Ambassador Howard B. Schaffer, The Limits of Influence: America's Role in Kashmir, published by Brookings Institute Press.
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.
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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