Lionel Gelber Prize

Given by Lionel Gelber Foundation

129 oeuvres 72,837 Livres 1,418 critiques 4.1

Awarded by the Lionel Gelber Foundation in partnership with the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto and Foreign Policy

The Gelber Prize is a literary award for the

afficher plus world's best non-fiction book in English that seeks to deepen public debate on significant global issues

Lionel Gelber Prize website afficher moins

Stages:
Tous, Winner (33), Shortlist (88), Longlist (8)
Années:
Tous, 2024 (5), 2023 (1), 2022 (5), 2021 (5), 2020 (5), 2019 (5), 2018 (5), 2017 (4), 2016 (5), 2015 (5), 2014 (5), 2013 (12), 2012 (6), 2011 (5), 2010 (5), 2009 (5), 2008 (5), 2007 (5), 2006 (5), 2004 (5), 2003 (4), 2002 (5), 2001 (5), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1)
Annoncé:
Février 8: Sélection finale2024 Récent

Winner 33

ŒuvreAnnée
Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise par Susan L. Shirk2023
The American War in Afghanistan: A History par Carter Malkasian2022
Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace par Matthew C. Klein2021
The Light that Failed: A Reckoning par Ivan Krastev2020
Crashed. Comment une décennie de crise financière a changé le monde par Adam Tooze2019
Famine rouge. La guerre de Staline en Ukraine par Anne Applebaum2018
A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS par Robert F. Worth2016
Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone par Scott Shane2016
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union par Serhii Plokhy2015
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide par Gary J. Bass2014
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else par Chrystia Freeland2013
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China par Ezra F. Vogel2012
Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America par Shelagh D. Grant2011
The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China par Jay Taylor2010
A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East par Lawrence Freedman2009
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It par Paul Collier2008
La guerre cachée : Al-Qaïda et les origines du terrorisme islamiste par Lawrence Wright2007
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves par Adam Hochschild2006
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 par Steve Coll2004
America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy par Ivo H. Daalder2003
Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World par Walter Russell Mead2002
John Maynard Keynes, Vol. 3: Fighting for Freedom, 1937-1946 par Robert Skidelsky2001
A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China par Patrick Tyler2000
Les Fantômes du roi Léopold : Le terreur coloniale dans l'Etat du Congo, 1884-1908 par Adam Hochschild1999
Loosing the Bonds: The United States and South Africa in the Apartheid Years par Robert Kinloch Massie1998
Aftermath: the Remnants of War: From Landmines to Chemical Warfare--The Devastating Effects of Modern Combat par Donovan Webster1997
Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev par Vladislav Zubok1996
The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 par Eric Hobsbawm1995
Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism par Michael Ignatieff1994
Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World par Kanan Makiya1993
Truman par David McCullough1992
Code of peace : ethics and security in the world of the warlord states par Dorothy V. Jones1991
The Search for Modern China par Jonathan D. Spence1990

Shortlist 88

ŒuvreAnnée
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity par Daron Acemoglu2024
Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy par Henry Farrell2024
Homelands: A Personal History of Europe par Timothy Garton Ash2024
Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization par Harold James2024
We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age par Wendy H. Wong2024
To End a Plague: America's Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa par Emily Bass2022
The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy and the Displacement of American Power (Bridging the Gap) par Rush Doshi2022
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe par Niall Ferguson2022
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918–1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust par Jeffrey Veidlinger2022
Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs par Peter Andreas2021
Démocraties en déclin. Réflexions sur la tentation autoritaire par Anne Applebaum2021
Isolationism: A History of America's Efforts to Shield Itself from the World par Charles A. Kupchan2021
War: How Conflict Shaped Us par Margaret MacMillan2021
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty par Daron Acemoglu2020
Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow's Terrorists par Audrey Kurth Cronin2020
The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent par Peter Gatrell2020
L'âge global. L'Europe, de 1950 à nos jours par Ian Kershaw2020
No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria par Rania Abouzeid2019
The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State par Elizabeth C. Economy2019
How Democracies Die par Steven Levitsky2019
La route pour la servitude. Russie, Europe, Amérique par Timothy Snyder2019
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? par Graham Allison2018
The Future of War: A History par Lawrence Freedman2018
The Internationalists and their plan to outlaw war par Oona A. Hathaway2018
Asia's Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century par Richard McGregor2018
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon par Rosa Brooks2017
Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World par Shadi Hamid2017
The Invention of Russia: The Rise of Putin and the Age of Fake News par Arkady Ostrovsky2017
Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran par Laura Secor2017
Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, The Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History par Barry Eichengreen2016
Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist par Niall Ferguson2016
La fin de l'empire des tsars. Vers la Première guerre mondiale et la révolution par Dominic Lieven2016
The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire par Susan Pedersen2016
The Good War: Why We Couldn’t Win the War or the Peace in Afghanistan par Jack Fairweather2015
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China par Evan Osnos2015
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel par Ari Shavit2015
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp par Lawrence Wright2015
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941 par Lynne Olson2014
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety par Eric Schlosser2014
Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present par Brendan Simms2014
The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order par Benn Steil2014
Rideau de fer. L'Europe de l'Est écrasée, 1944-1956 par Anne Applebaum2013
The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics par Paul Bracken2013
Ghosts of Empire: Britain's Legacies in the Modern World par Kwasi Kwarteng2013
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia par Pankaj Mishra2013
A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War par Amanda Foreman2012
George F. Kennan: An American Life par John Lewis Gaddis2012
Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth par Frederick Kempe2012
De la Chine par Henry Kissinger2012
The Hungry World: America's Cold War Battle against Poverty in Asia par Nick Cullather2011
Pourquoi l'Occident domine le monde...pour l'instant par Ian Morris2011
Yalta: The Price of Peace par Serhii Plokhy2011
Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World par Doug Saunders2011
Une révolution sous nos yeux. Comment l'islam va transformer la France et l'Europe. par Christopher Caldwell2010
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy par David E. Hoffman2010
The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget: Murder and Memory in Uganda par Andrew Rice2010
The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006–2008 par Thomas E. Ricks2010
Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape Our Next Decade par Bill Emmott2009
McMafia : Au coeur de la criminalité internationale par Misha Glenny2009
Descent into Chaos: The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia par Ahmed Rashid2009
The Post-American World par Fareed Zakaria2009
Multicultural Odysseys par Will Kymlicka2008
The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism par Erez Manela2008
Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia par Richard J. Samuels2008
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA par Tim Weiner2008
Dangerous Nation par Robert Kagan2007
Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World par Margaret MacMillan2007
The International Struggle Over Iraq par David M. Malone2007
Fiasco : l'aventure américaine en Irak par Thomas E. Ricks2007
The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting it Right par Daniel Benjamin2006
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya par Caroline Elkins2006
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time par Jeffrey D. Sachs2006
Pourquoi le Monde n'aime plus les états-Unis par Stephen M. Walt2006
The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror par Michael Ignatieff2004
The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace par Dennis Ross2004
L'Islam mondialisé par Olivier Roy2004
A New World Order par Anne-Marie Slaughter2004
Les artisans de la paix. Comment Lloyd George, Clemenceau et Wilson ont redessiné la carte du monde par Margaret MacMillan2003
The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland par Karl Ernest Meyer2003
The Future of Freedom par Fareed Zakaria2003
The Chastening: Inside The Crisis That Rocked The Global Financial System And Humbled The Imf par Paul Blustein2002
The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone par Joseph S. Nye Jr.2002
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide par Samantha Power2002
Strangers in the House par Raja Shehadeh2002
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan par Herbert P. Bix2001
Ho Chi Minh par William J. Duiker2001
The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000 par Niall Ferguson2001
Night of Stone par Catherine Merridale2001

Longlist 8

ŒuvreAnnée
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty par Daron Acemoglu2013
The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran par David Crist2013
The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack Obama par Michael R. Gordon2013
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam par Fredrik Logevall2013
Soldats. Combattre, tuer, mourir : procès-verbaux de récits de soldats allemands par Sönke Neitzel2013
The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949 par S. C. M. Paine2013
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy par Andrew Preston2013
The Russian Origins of the First World War par Sean McMeekin2012

Descriptions

Awarded by the Lionel Gelber Foundation in partnership with the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto and Foreign Policy

The Gelber Prize is a literary award for the world's best non-fiction book in English that seeks to deepen public debate on significant global issues

Lionel Gelber Prize website

(English, Member-written)

Began in 1990. There is no award dated 2005 as the 2006 award brought the year of the award into line with the actual year awarded.

(English, Avis technique / d'homonymie)

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