The Arthur Ross Book Award is a politics-related literary award. History and administration It was endowed in 2001 by Arthur Ross, an American businessman and philanthropist, for the purpose of recognizing books that make an outstanding contribution to the understanding of foreign policy or international relations. The prize is for nonfiction works from the past two years, in English or translation, and is accompanied by a monetary award. The amount of the prize has varied from year to year but has sometimes consisted of a $30,000 "Gold Medal", a $15,000 "Silver Medal" and a $7,500 "Honorable Mention". The award is administered by the Council on Foreign Relations, an American nonprofit nonpartisan membership organization, publisher and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs. List of winners 2000s 2002 Gold Medal – Robert Skidelsky for John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Freedom 1937–1946 Silver Medal – Lawrence Freedman for Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam Honorable Mention – Walter Russell Mead and Richard C. Leone for Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World 2003 Gold Medal – Samantha Power for A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide Silver Medal – Margaret MacMillan for Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World Honorable Mention – Philip Bobbitt for The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History 2004 Gold Medal – Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon for The Age of Sacred Terror: Radical Islam's War Against America Silver Medal – Robert Cooper for The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty-First Century Honorable Mention – Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay for America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy 2005 Gold Medal – Steve Coll for Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 Silver Medal – Stephen Biddle for Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle Honorable Mention – James Mann for Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet 2006 Gold Medal – Tony Judt for Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 Silver Medal – Olivier Roy for Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah Honorable Mention – George Packer for The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq 2007 Gold Medal – Kwame Anthony Appiah for Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers Silver Medal – Robert L.