| Douglas
Dillon Award
for Distinguished Writing on American Diplomacy
Call for Entries, March 2007
Since 1995, the American Academy of Diplomacy has celebrated distinguished
writing in the field of American Diplomacy with an annual award. Last
year Ralph Pezzullo won the prize for Plunging into Haiti, a detailed
account of the international diplomatic effort to resolve the political
crisis in Haiti during the early 1990’s; published in 2006 by The
University Press of Mississippi.
The deadline for submission of nominations for the thirteenth year of
these awards is October 19th, 2007. A committee of Academy members will
again review nominated books and determine the winners, with concurrence
by the Academy’s Board of Directors. The award for the winning entry
this year includes a cash prize of $5,000. The awards are presented at
the Academy’s Annual Awards Luncheon Ceremony in the Benjamin Franklin
Room at the Department of State.
Eligibility is limited to books written by an American citizen, published
in the United States and scheduled for publication within the period of
October 1, 2006 and September 30, 2007. 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 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.
The American Academy of Diplomacy is a limited membership honor society
whose members while in government service, held senior policy positions
related to the conduct of U.S. foreign relations. They are men and women,
both career and non-career, who held major ambassadorial posts abroad
and foreign policy responsibilities in Washington. Among them, as honorary
members, are all eight living former Secretaries of State, as well as
other senior cabinet officials connected with foreign policy. The Academy
works to encourage the highest standards of qualification for, and performance
in, the conduct of American diplomacy, and to enhance public understanding
of and appreciation for the contributions of diplomacy to our national
interest.
Contact: Yvonne Siu, American Academy of Diplomacy
Telephone: 202/331-3722
Fax: 202/833-4555
Email: academy@academyofdiplomacy.org
Six (6) copies of each book to be considered should be sent to:
The American Academy of Diplomacy
Re: 2006 Book Award
1800 K Street NW, Suite 1014
Washington, DC 20006
Previous winners of the Douglas Dillon Award
2006 Ralph Pezzullo. Plunging into Haiti:
Clinton, Aristide and the Defeat of Diplomacy University Press of Mississippi/Jackson.
2005 Joel S. Wit, Daniel B. Poneman, and
Robert Galucci, Going Critical,
Brookings Institution Press.
2004 Richard B. Parker, Uncle Sam in Barbary:
A Diplomatic History,
University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
2003 Warren Zimmermann, America’s First
Great Triumph: How Five
Americans Made Their Country a World Power, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux.
2002 John Boykin, Cursed is the Peacemaker:
The American Diplomat vs. the
Israeli General, Beirut, 1982, Applegate Press.
2001 David McCullough, John Adams, Simon
& Schuster.
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 Dimplomacy 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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