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Lionel Gelber Prize

Index Lionel Gelber Prize

The Lionel Gelber Prize was founded in 1989 by Canadian diplomat Lionel Gelber. [1]

39 relations: A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China, Adam Hochschild, Anne Applebaum, Bob Massie (politician), Bury the Chains, Canada, Chrystia Freeland, David McCullough, Donovan Webster, Eric Hobsbawm, Ezra Vogel, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Ghost Wars, Ivo Daalder, James M. Lindsay, Jonathan Spence, Kanan Makiya, King Leopold's Ghost, Lawrence Freedman, Lawrence Wright, Michael Ignatieff, National Post, Patrick Tyler, Paul Collier, Penguin Random House, Robert F. Worth, Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky, Scott Shane, Serhii Plokhii, Steve Coll, The Age of Extremes, The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide, The Bottom Billion, The Economist, The Looming Tower, Truman (book), United Kingdom, United States, Walter Russell Mead.

A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China

A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China: An Investigative History (1999) is a history of international relations written by journalist Patrick Tyler.

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Adam Hochschild

Adam Hochschild (born October 5, 1942) is an American author, journalist, and lecturer.

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Anne Applebaum

Anne Elizabeth Applebaum (born July 25, 1964) is an American-Polish journalist and Pulitzer Prize–winning author who has written extensively about communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe.

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Bob Massie (politician)

Robert Kinloch "Bob" Massie IV (born August 17, 1956) is an American activist and author who works on issues of global leadership and corporate accountability, social justice, and climate change.

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Bury the Chains

Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves is a non-fiction book by Adam Hochschild that was first published by Houghton Mifflin on January 7, 2005.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Chrystia Freeland

Christina Alexandra "Chrystia" Freeland (born August 2, 1968) is a Canadian writer, journalist, and politician.

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David McCullough

David Gaub McCullough (born July 7, 1933) is an American author, narrator, historian, and lecturer.

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Donovan Webster

Donovan Webster (born January 13, 1959) is an American journalist, author, film-maker, and humanitarian.

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Eric Hobsbawm

Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm (9 June 1917 – 1 October 2012) was a British historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism and nationalism.

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Ezra Vogel

Ezra Feivel Vogel (born July 11, 1930) is a Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University and has written on Japan, China, and Asia generally.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus, Jr. and John C. Farrar.

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Ghost Wars

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, abbreviated as Ghost Wars, is a book written by Steve Coll, published in 2004 by Penguin Press, won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.

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Ivo Daalder

Ivo H. Daalder (born March 2, 1960, The Hague, Netherlands), has served as President of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs since July, 2013.

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James M. Lindsay

James M. Lindsay (born November 29, 1959, Winchester, Massachusetts), is the Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and a leading authority on U.S. foreign policy.

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Jonathan Spence

Jonathan Dermot Spence (born 11 August 1936) is a British-born American historian and public intellectual specialising in Chinese history.

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Kanan Makiya

Kanan Makiya (born 1949) is an Iraqi-British academic and a professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University.

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King Leopold's Ghost

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998) is a best-selling popular history book by Adam Hochschild that explores the exploitation of the Congo Free State by King Leopold II of Belgium between 1885 and 1908, as well as the large-scale atrocities committed during that period.

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Lawrence Freedman

Sir Lawrence David Freedman, (born 7 December 1948) is Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King's College London.

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Lawrence Wright

Lawrence Wright (born August 2, 1947) is an American author, screenwriter, staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, and fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law.

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Michael Ignatieff

Michael Grant Ignatieff (born May 12, 1947) is a Canadian author, academic and former politician.

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National Post

The National Post is a conservative Canadian English-language newspaper.

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Patrick Tyler

Patrick E. Tyler is an author and formerly chief correspondent for the New York Times.

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Paul Collier

Sir Paul Collier, (born 23 April 1949) is professor of economics and public policy in the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford.

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Penguin Random House

Penguin Random House (PRH) is an American multinational publishing company formed in 2013 from the merger of Random House (owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann) and Penguin Group (owned by British publishing company Pearson PLC).

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Robert F. Worth

Robert Forsyth Worth is an American journalist and former chief of the New York Times Beirut bureau.

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Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

Robert Jacob Alexander, Baron Skidelsky, FBA (born 25 April 1939) is a British economic historian of Russian origin and the author of a major, award-winning, three-volume biography of British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946).

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Scott Shane

Scott Shane (born May 22, 1954 in Augusta, Georgia) is an American journalist, currently employed by The New York Times, reporting principally about the United States intelligence community.

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Serhii Plokhii

Serhii Plokhii, or Plokhy (Сергій Миколайович Плохій; born 23 May 1957) is an American historian and author specializing in the history of Ukraine, Eastern Europe and Cold War studies.

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Steve Coll

Steve Coll (born October 8, 1958) is an American journalist, academic and executive.

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The Age of Extremes

The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991 is a book by Eric Hobsbawm, published in 1994.

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The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide

The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide is a 2013 book by American journalist and academic Gary J. Bass about The Blood telegram.

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The Bottom Billion

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It is a 2007 book by Paul Collier, Professor of Economics at Oxford University, exploring the reasons why impoverished countries fail to progress despite international aid and support.

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The Economist

The Economist is an English-language weekly magazine-format newspaper owned by the Economist Group and edited at offices in London.

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The Looming Tower

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 is a 2006 non-fiction book by Lawrence Wright.

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Truman (book)

Truman is a 1992 biography of the 33rd President of the United States Harry S. Truman written by popular historian David McCullough.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Walter Russell Mead

Walter Russell Mead (born June 12, 1952) is an American academic.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Gelber_Prize

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