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. |
| 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. |
