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Announcing the Shortlist for the 2022 Lionel Gelber Prize
"This year's shortlisted books provide deep insights about our recent past with valuable lessons for our collective future. The shortlisted books grapple with pandemics and disasters; explore how violent riots laid the foundation for genocide; detail the complicated history of a decades-long conflict and study the shifting global order from the perspective of an emerging global superpower. We extend our deep thanks to the Lionel Gelber Prize jury for their thoughtful selections for this year's prize," said Judith Gelber , Chair of the Lionel Gelber Prize Board.
This year's shortlist was selected by the 2022 Lionel Gelber Prize Jury: , Jury Chair ( Toronto ), ( New York ), ( Washington ), ( Washington ), and ( Toronto ).
The winner will be announced on . The winning author will take part in an online event hosted by Foreign Policy and the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy on
Beginning Tuesday,
, feature interviews with each of the finalists will be released every Tuesday on the Lionel Gelber Prize website, the Munk School's YouTube channel, and on Apple podcasts.
The Lionel Gelber Prize, a literary award for the world's best non-fiction book in English on foreign affairs, was founded in 1989 by Canadian diplomat
Lionel Gelber . A cash prize of
$15,000 is awarded to the winner. The award is presented annually by
University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, in partnership with Foreign Policy magazine. For further information, please visit:
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(Public Affairs/Hachette Book Group)
"From Washington to Kampala , tells the story of how the Bush administration marshalled support for PEPFAR, an ambitious plan to fight AIDS in Africa . Drawing on the testimonials of advocates, doctors, and policymakers, Bass traces the long road from AIDS activism to the rollout of antiretrovirals. Although PEPFAR wasn't perfect, it provided a massive investment and a roadmap for how to mobilize against AIDS for the long haul. In doing so, it also taught an important lesson that we have not yet learned: responding to a dire public health threat is important wherever it occurs — a pandemic threatens us all."
has spent more than twenty years writing about and working on HIV/AIDS in America and East and Southern Africa . Her writing has appeared in numerous books and publications including Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, The Lancet, Esquire, and n+1, and she has received a notable mention in Best American Essays. A lifelong social justice activist, Bass has served as an external expert for the World Health Organization and a member of the What Would an HIV Doula Do collective. She is the recipient of a Fulbright journalism fellowship and a Martin Duberman Visiting Research Fellowship from the New York Public Library. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.
( Oxford University Press)
"Is the balance of power shifting away from U.S. hegemony to a new global order, where China takes the lead? Drawing on primary Chinese language sources, Rush Doshi traces the evolution of China's approach from U.S. strategic partner to strategic competitor in Doshi outlines China's national strategy since the end of the Cold War, and uncovers Beijing's long game — to become a technological superpower that overtakes the United States . Doshi's book provides a comprehensive plan for a US response, making it essential reading for policymakers in Washington and beyond."
is the founding director of the Brookings China Strategy Initiative and a fellow (on leave) at Yale Law School's Paul Tsai China Center. Previously, he was a member of the
Asia policy working groups for the Biden and Clinton presidential campaigns and a Fulbright Fellow in
China . His research has appeared in , , ,
, and , among other publications. Proficient in Mandarin, Doshi received his PhD from
Harvard University focusing on Chinese foreign policy and his bachelor's from
Princeton University . He is currently serving as Director for
China on the Biden Administration's National Security Council (NSC), but this work was completed before his government service, is based entirely on open sources, and does not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Government or NSC.
(Penguin Random House)
"Why are we so slow to learn from the disasters of the past? In , historian Niall Ferguson examines plagues and catastrophes throughout human history and explores how we can learn from them to anticipate future crises. Ferguson issues a clarion call to improve our governance, especially the middle managers who so often fail to respond to complex challenges, and the bureaucratic dysfunction that impedes adaptability. A must read for leaders and policymakers preparing for the next pandemic."
is a world renowned historian. He is the author of sixteen books, including Civilization, The Great Degeneration, Kissinger, 1923–1968: The Idealist, and The Ascent of Money. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University , and the managing director of Greenmantle LLC. He is also a regular Bloomberg Opinion columnist. His many prizes include the International Emmy for Best Documentary (2009), the Benjamin Franklin Award for Public Service (2010), and the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award (2016).
( Oxford University Press)
After two decades and four presidential administrations, America finally ended its war in Afghanistan . There is little doubt about the outcome: the United States spent twenty years pouring blood, sweat and treasure into a frustrating and complex war — one that it ultimately lost. In , noted historian and former adviser to American military commanders in Afghanistan Carter Malkasian offers an extraordinary view into the dynamics of that led to America's withdrawal and the Taliban's return to power. Deeply researched and beautifully written, Malkasian's account draws on primary sources and takes the reader through the complicated political, military and socio-cultural forces that shaped America's longest war."
was the Special Assistant for Strategy to Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Joseph Dunford from 2015 to 2019. He has extensive experience working in Afghanistan through multiple deployments throughout the country. The highlight of his work is the nearly two years he spent in Garmser district, Helmand province, Afghanistan , as a State Department political officer and the district stabilization team leader. He is the author of ( Oxford ) and ( Oxford ). He has a Ph.D. in history from Oxford and is fluent in Pashto.
(HarperCollins)
"What causes us to change our view of our neighbors of a different religion — transforming them, in only a few years, into invaders, enemies and threats? Twenty years before the Holocaust, more than a hundred thousand Jews were murdered in Ukraine by peasants, townsfolk and soldiers who blamed them for the turmoil of World War I and the Russian Revolution. These pogroms — violent riots that took place between 1918 and 1921 — were front-page news at the time but are largely forgotten today. In his book , Jeffrey Veidlinger provides an impeccably researched account that transforms our understanding of this time, and of the factors that could cause this violent transformation to recur in ours."
, a graduate of McGill University , is a professor of history and Judaic studies and the director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan . His books, which include and , have won a National Jewish Book Award, two Canadian Jewish Book Awards, a J. I. Segal Award and the Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History. Jeffrey Veidlinger lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan .
Lani Krantz , Communications and Media Relations Specialist, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto , (647) 407-4384 (text preferred), lani.krantz@utoronto.ca
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