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Dillon Award Call for Entries Since 1995, the American Academy of Diplomacy has celebrated distinguished writing about U.S. diplomatic efforts and achievements with an annual award. Last year Professor Robert Beisner won the prize for Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War, a superbly crafted appreciation of President Truman’s secretary of state published by the Oxford University Press. The deadline for submission of nominations for the thirteenth year of these awards is Friday, August 15, 2008. A committee of Academy members will 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 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 October 1, 2007 and August 1, 2008. 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. 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 high-level foreign policy responsibilities in Washington. Among them, as honorary members, are all eight of the 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. Five (5) copies of each book to be considered should be sent, no later than Friday, August 15, 2008, to:
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