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Douglas Dillon Book Award Winners

Diplomats at War: Friendship and Betrayal on the Brink of the Vietnam Conflict

Charles Trueheart

2024

Winning and Losing the Nuclear Peace: The Rise, Demise and Revival of Arms Control

Michael Krepon

2022

The Ambassadors: America’s Diplomats on the Front Lines

Paul Richter

2020

The Back Channel

William Burns

2019

The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War

Benn Steil

2018

Jimmy Carter in Africa

Nancy Mitchell

2016

The Limits of Partnership

Professor Angela Stent

2014

China Hand: An Autobiography

John Paton Davies

2012

High Value Target: Countering Al Qaeda in Yemen

Ambassador Edmund J. Hull

2011

Honorable Survivor: Mao's China, McCarthy's America and the
Persecution of John S. Service

Lynne Joiner

2010

The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and
How America Helped Rebuild Europe

Greg Behrman

2008 Special Citation

Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War

Robert L. Beisner

2007

Plunging Into Haiti: Clinton, Aristide, and the Defeat of Diplomacy

Ralph Pezzullo

2006

Going Critical: The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis

Joel S. Wit, Daniel Poneman and Robert L. Galucci

2005

Ellsworth Bunker: Global Troubleshooter, Vietnam Hawk

Howard B. Schaffer

2004 Special Citation

Vietnam and Beyond: A Diplomat’s Cold War
Education

Robert Hopkins Miller

2003 Special Citation

Partner to History: The US Role
In South Africa’s Transition to Democracy

Princeton Lyman

2002 Special Citation

The United States and Pakistan, 1947-2000: Disenchanted Allies

Dennis Kux

2001 Special Citation

Massive Entanglement, Marginal Influence: Carter and Korea in Crisis

William J. Gleysteen Jr.

2000 Winner

Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World

James Chace

1999

Origins of a Catastrophe: Yugoslavia and its Destroyers

Warren Zimmermann

1997

Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union

Jack F. Matlock

1996

Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor

Steve Kemper

2023

Negotiating the New START Treaty

Rose Gottemoeller

2021

The Dissent Channel: American Diplomacy in a Dishonest Age

Elizabeth Shackelford

2020

The Kremlinologist: Llewellyn E Thompson, America’s Man in Cold War Moscow

Jenny and Sherry Thompson

2018 Special Certificate

Foreign Service

James F. Dobbins

2017

Back Channel to Cuba

William M. Leogrande and Peter Kornbluh

2015

All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

John Taliaferro

2013

Eisenhower 1956: The President’s Year of Crisis — Suez and the Brink of War

David Nichols

2011 Special Citation

Yalta, 1945: Europe and America at the Crossroads

Fraser J. Harbutt

2010 Special Citation

Limits of Influence: America’s Role in Kashmir

Howard Schaffer

2009

After The Taliban: Nation-Building in Afghanistan

James Dobbins

2008

Mr. Ambassador: Warrior for Peace

Edward J. Perkins with Connie Cronley

2006 Special Citation

Toussaint’s Clause: The Founding Fathers and the
Haitian Revolution

Gordon Brown

2005 Special Citation

The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for
Middle East Peace

Dennis B. Ross

2004 Special Mention

Uncle Sam in Barbary: A Diplomatic History

Richard B. Parker

2004

America's First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their
Country a World Power

Warren Zimmerman

2003

Cursed is the Peacemaker: The American Diplomat vs. the Israeli General,
Beirut, 1982

John Boykin

2002

John Adams

David McCullough

2001

Intervening in Africa: Superpower Peacemaking in a Troubled Continent

Herman J. Cohen

2000

Disarming Strangers: Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea

Leon Sigal

1998

Germany Unified and Europe Transformed

Condoleeza Rice and Philip Zelikow

1996 Winner

The Ambassadors and America’s Soviet Policy

David Mayers

1995

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