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

 


In 2007, this prize was presented to Robert L. Beisner for the book Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War published by the Oxford University Press.

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.


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.
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


1995

Jack F. Matlock, Autopsy of an Empire, Random House
Condoleeza Rice and Philip Zelikow, Germany Unified and Europe Transformed, Harvard University Press .

David Mayers, The Ambassadors and America’s Soviet Policy, Oxford University Press.

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