Lionel Gelber Prize winners
Awarded each year since 1990 to the best nonfiction book on world affairs.
35 winners, 1990 to 2025, newest first.
- To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Powe
2025To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global PowerSergey Radchenko - Homelands: A Personal History of Europe
2024Homelands: A Personal History of EuropeTimothy Garton Ash - Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise2023Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful RiseSusan L. Shirk
- The American War in Afghanistan: A History2022The American War in Afghanistan: A HistoryCarter Malkasian
- Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts th
2021Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International PeaceMatthew C. Klein - The Light that Failed: A Reckoning2020The Light that Failed: A ReckoningIvan Krastev
- Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
2019Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the WorldAdam Tooze - Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
2018Red Famine: Stalin's War on UkraineAnne Applebaum - A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Sq2017A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISISRobert F. Worth
- Objective Troy: A Terrorist, A President, and the Rise of th
2016Objective Troy: A Terrorist, A President, and the Rise of the DroneScott Shane - The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union
2015The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet UnionSerhii Plokhy - The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genoci
2014The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten GenocideGary J. Bass - Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fa
2013Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone ElseChrystia Freeland - Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
2012Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of ChinaEzra F. Vogel - Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North A
2011Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North AmericaShelagh Grant - The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Mode
2010The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern ChinaJay Taylor - A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East
2009A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle EastLawrence Freedman - The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing an
2008The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About ItPaul Collier - The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
2007The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11Lawrence Wright - Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an
2006Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's SlavesAdam Hochschild - Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and 2004Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001Steve Coll
- America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy
2003America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign PolicyIvo H. Daalder - Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Chang
2002Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the WorldWalter Russell Mead - John Maynard Keynes, Fighting for Britain 1937-19462001John Maynard Keynes, Fighting for Britain 1937-1946Robert Skidelsky
- A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China: An Investigative His
2000A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China: An Investigative HistoryPatrick Tyler - King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism I
1999King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism In Colonial AfricaAdam Hochschild - Loosing the Bonds: The United States and South Africa In the1998Loosing the Bonds: The United States and South Africa In the Apartheid YearsRobert Kinloch Massie
- Aftermath: The Remnants of War
1997Aftermath: The Remnants of WarDonovan Webster - Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev
1996Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to KhrushchevVladislav Zubok - The Age of Extremes: The Short 20th Century, 1914–1991
1995The Age of Extremes: The Short 20th Century, 1914–1991Eric Hobsbawm - Blood and Belonging: Journeys Into the New Nationalism
1994Blood and Belonging: Journeys Into the New NationalismMichael Ignatieff - Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising and the Arab Wor
1993Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising and the Arab WorldKanan Makiya - Truman
1992TrumanDavid McCullough - Code of Peace: Ethics and Security in the World of Warlord S
1991Code of Peace: Ethics and Security in the World of Warlord StatesDorothy V. Jones - The Search for Modern China
1990The Search for Modern ChinaJonathan D. Spence
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