Destined for War Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize

February 14, 2018 | News about
• Graham Allison

Jury Chair Janice Stein announces five finalists for the 2018 Lionel Gelber Prize, including Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? By Graham Allison, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

About the Jury: Janice Gross Stein, Jury Chair (Toronto, Canada) is joined by distinguished jurors Ramachandra Guha (Bengaluru, India), Desmond King (Oxford, England), David M. Malone (Tokyo, Japan), and Jeannette Money (California, USA). The Lionel Gelber Prize Podcast Series features all five of this year’s finalists in conversation with Robert Steiner, Founder of the Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs. Special thanks to Funding Media Partner Focus Asset Management for their support of these podcasts, available on iTunes.

The 2018 winner will be announced on March 13 and invited to speak at a free public event at Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs on April 17, 2018.

About the Prize: The Lionel Gelber Prize, a literary award for the world’s best nonfiction book in English on foreign affairs that seeks to deepen public debate on significant international issues, 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 The Lionel Gelber Foundation, in partnership with Foreign Policy magazine and the Munk School of Global Affairs.