Finalists for 2017 Lionel Gelber Prize announced

Jury Chair John Stackhouse has announced the five finalists for the 2017 Lionel Gelber Prize:

• Rosa Brooks,  How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon published by Simon & Schuster
• Shadi Hamid, Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World, published by St. Martin's Press
• Arkady Ostrovsky, The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War, published by Viking
• Laura Secor, author of Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran, published by Allen Lane Canada/Penguin Canada, a division of Penguin Random House, and
• Robert F. Worth, A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

All of the authors are from the US with the exception of Ostrovsky. The winner will be announced on February 28.

The Lionel Gelber Prize was founded in 1989. It is awarded annually to the world's best non-fiction book in English (or an English translation) that seeks to deepen public debate on significant global issues. It is worth US$15,000, and presented by the Lionel Gelber Foundation, in partnership with Foreign Policy Magazine and the Munk School of Global Affairs.

Lionel Gelber (1907-1989) himself was an author, scholar, historian, diplomat and a recognised authority on Anglo-American relations. He wrote eight books and was a prolific contributor of articles on foreign relations and politics.

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A list of past winners is available on Wikipedia

The Lionel Gelber Prize Podcast series presents interviews with all five of this year's finalists in conversation with Professor Robert Steiner, founder of the Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.