Date: Sat, May 10, 2008 at 2:57 PM
Subject: Fwd: Treacherous Alliance wins CFR's Arthur Ross Silver Award
To: undisclosed-recipients
Since meeting Trita Parsi a few months ago and establishing correspondence with him, I have become one of his strong admirers. Ray
From: "Trita Parsi"
Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 13:00:01 -0400
Subject: Treacherous Alliance wins CFR's Arthur Ross Silver Award
Friends,
My apologies for this blatantly self-promoting email, but I wanted to share with you some good news:
My book "Treacherous Alliance – The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the US" was just awarded the silver medal in the Council on Foreign Relations' prestigious Arthur Ross Book Award.
The prize is the "the most significant award for a book on international affairs." It honors books "that merit special attention for: bringing forth new information that changes our understanding of events or problems; developing analytical approaches that allow new and different insights into critical issues; or providing new ideas that help resolve foreign policy problems."
According to the jury, "This unique and important book takes a closer look at the complicated triangular relations between Israel, Iran, and the United States that continue to shape the future of the Middle East."
The gold prize went to "The Bottom Billion" by Oxford University Economics Professor Paul Collier. The Bottom Billion explains why the world's poorest fifty countries are failing and why traditional development programs haven't lifted them up.
The not-so-subtle message of this email is: If you haven't bought Treacherous Alliance yet – what are you waiting for? J
You can order it on Amazon today!
PS. The CFR Press release is pasted below.
Sincerely,
Trita Parsi, PhD
www.tritaparsi.com
www.niacouncil.org
News Release
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
58 EAST 68TH STREET · NEW YORK · NEW YORK 10021
Tel 212 434 9888 Fax 212 434 9832 Website www.cfr.org
Paul Collier's Bottom Billion Wins CFR's
2008 Arthur Ross Book Award
Contact: CFR Communications, 212-434-9888, communications@cfr.org
May 9, 2007— The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Oxford University Press), by Paul Collier, professor of economics and director of the Center for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University, has won the Council's seventh annual Arthur Ross Book Award for the best book published on international affairs. Collier will receive $30,000 and be honored at the Council this June.
"Paul Collier explains why the world's poorest fifty countries are failing and why traditional development programs haven't lifted them up. His innovative recommendations make The Bottom Billion an indispensable new tool in alleviating poverty," said Foreign Affairs Editor James F. Hoge, who chaired the selection committee.
The silver medal and a prize of $15,000 have been awarded to National Iranian American Council president Trita Parsi for Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States (Yale University Press). This unique and important book takes a closer look at the complicated triangular relations between Israel, Iran, and the United States that continue to shape the future of the Middle East.
The jury also awarded an honorable mention and $7,500 to historian Robert Dallek for Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power (HarperCollins Publisher). The expertly researched joint portrait of a pair of outsize leaders examines the unlikely partnership that dominated the world stage and changed the course of history.
Additional shortlist nominees included Joshua Kurlantzik for Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power is Transforming the World (Yale University Press), and Melvyn Leffler for For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
CFR's Arthur Ross Book Award is the most significant award for a book on international affairs. It was endowed by the late Arthur Ross in 2001 to honor nonfiction works, in English or translation, that merit special attention for: bringing forth new information that changes our understanding of events or problems; developing analytical approaches that allow new and different insights into critical issues; or providing new ideas that help resolve foreign policy problems.
For more information, visit to www.cfr.org/arba.
***
2008 JURY
Rose Gottemoeller
Director
Carnegie Moscow Center
Stanley Hoffmann
Paul & Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor
Harvard University
James F. Hoge, Jr. (Chairman)
Peter G. Peterson Chair & Editor
Foreign Affairs
Robert W. Kagan
Senior Associate
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Miles Kahler *
Rohr Professor of Pacific International Relations
University of California, San Diego
Michael A. McFaul
Director, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
Stanford University
Daniel K. Tarullo
Professor of Law
Georgetown University Law Center
Stephen M. Walt
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
*on sabbatical for 2008
Founded in 1921, the Council on Foreign Relations is an independent national membership organization and a nonpartisan center for scholars dedicated to producing and disseminating ideas so that members, students, interested citizens, and government officials in the United States and other countries can better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other governments. The Council, a national, nonpartisan membership organization, takes no institutional position on policy issues.
You can order it on Amazon today!
PS. The CFR Press release is pasted below.
Sincerely,
Trita Parsi, PhD
www.tritaparsi.com
www.niacouncil.org
News Release
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
58 EAST 68TH STREET · NEW YORK · NEW YORK 10021
Tel 212 434 9888 Fax 212 434 9832 Website www.cfr.org
Paul Collier's Bottom Billion Wins CFR's
2008 Arthur Ross Book Award
Contact: CFR Communications, 212-434-9888, communications@cfr.org
May 9, 2007— The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Oxford University Press), by Paul Collier, professor of economics and director of the Center for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University, has won the Council's seventh annual Arthur Ross Book Award for the best book published on international affairs. Collier will receive $30,000 and be honored at the Council this June.
"Paul Collier explains why the world's poorest fifty countries are failing and why traditional development programs haven't lifted them up. His innovative recommendations make The Bottom Billion an indispensable new tool in alleviating poverty," said Foreign Affairs Editor James F. Hoge, who chaired the selection committee.
The silver medal and a prize of $15,000 have been awarded to National Iranian American Council president Trita Parsi for Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States (Yale University Press). This unique and important book takes a closer look at the complicated triangular relations between Israel, Iran, and the United States that continue to shape the future of the Middle East.
The jury also awarded an honorable mention and $7,500 to historian Robert Dallek for Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power (HarperCollins Publisher). The expertly researched joint portrait of a pair of outsize leaders examines the unlikely partnership that dominated the world stage and changed the course of history.
Additional shortlist nominees included Joshua Kurlantzik for Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power is Transforming the World (Yale University Press), and Melvyn Leffler for For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
CFR's Arthur Ross Book Award is the most significant award for a book on international affairs. It was endowed by the late Arthur Ross in 2001 to honor nonfiction works, in English or translation, that merit special attention for: bringing forth new information that changes our understanding of events or problems; developing analytical approaches that allow new and different insights into critical issues; or providing new ideas that help resolve foreign policy problems.
For more information, visit to www.cfr.org/arba.
***
2008 JURY
Rose Gottemoeller
Director
Carnegie Moscow Center
Stanley Hoffmann
Paul & Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor
Harvard University
James F. Hoge, Jr. (Chairman)
Peter G. Peterson Chair & Editor
Foreign Affairs
Robert W. Kagan
Senior Associate
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Miles Kahler *
Rohr Professor of Pacific International Relations
University of California, San Diego
Michael A. McFaul
Director, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
Stanford University
Daniel K. Tarullo
Professor of Law
Georgetown University Law Center
Stephen M. Walt
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
*on sabbatical for 2008
Founded in 1921, the Council on Foreign Relations is an independent national membership organization and a nonpartisan center for scholars dedicated to producing and disseminating ideas so that members, students, interested citizens, and government officials in the United States and other countries can better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other governments. The Council, a national, nonpartisan membership organization, takes no institutional position on policy issues.
