Beisner for Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War Honorable Mention – Thomas E. Ricks for Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005 2008 Gold Medal – Paul Collier for The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It Silver Medal – Trita Parsi for Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States Honorable Mention – Robert Dallek for Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power 2009 Gold Medal – Philip P. Pan for Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China Silver Medal – Ahmed Rashid for Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia Honorable Mention – Gareth Evans for The Responsibility To Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All 2010s 2010 Gold Medal – Liaquat Ahamed for Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World Silver Medal – Seth Jones for In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan Honorable Mention – Gérard Prunier for Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe 2011 Gold Medal – Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff for This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly Silver Medal – Thomas Hegghammer for Jihad in Saudi Arabia: Violence and Pan-Islamism since 1979 Honorable Mention – Charles A. Kupchan for How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace 2012 Gold Medal – John Lewis Gaddis for George F. Kennan: An American Life Silver Medal – Jason Stearns for Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of Congo and the Great War of Africa Honorable Mention – Daniel Yergin for The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World 2013 Gold Medal – Fredrik Logevall for Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam Silver Medal – Anne Applebaum for Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956 Honorable Mention – Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson for Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty 2014 Gold Medal – Gary Bass for The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide Silver Medal – Carter Malkasian for War Comes to Garmser: Thirty Years of Conflict on the Afghan Frontier Honorable Mention – Benn Steil for The Battle of Bretton Woods: John