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The Lionel Gelber Prize – The Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
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2017

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A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS
Robert F. Worth
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A Rage for Order tracks the tormented legacy of what was once called the Arab Spring. Combining dramatic storytelling with an original analysis of the Arab world today, Worth captures the psychic and actual civil wars raging throughout the Middle East and explains how the dream of an Arab renaissance gave way to a new…
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The Shortlist

The shortlisted books for this year’s Lionel Gelber Prize are as follows:

  • Rosa Brooks
    How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
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  • Shadi Hamid
    Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World
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  • Arkady Ostrovsky
    The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s War
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  • Laura Secor
    Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran
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Jurors
John Stackhouse
Jury Chair (Toronto, Canada)
Prof. Antje Wiener
Hamburg, Germany
Dr. Astrid S. Tuminez
Singapore
Prof. Allison Stanger
Vermont, USA
Scott Shane
Maryland, USA
Press releases
Robert F. Worth’s Rage for Order Wins the 2017 Lionel Gelber Prize
Shortlist Announced for the 2017 Lionel Gelber Prize
Jury Announced for the 27th Annual Lionel Gelber Prize
Call for Books – 2017
Media coverage
Munk School Meets: Robert Worth
Munk School of Global Affairs, April 17, 2017
From Uprising to ISIS
The Agenda, March 29, 2017
Robert Worth on The Monocle Daily
The Monocle Daily, March 28, 2017
Arkady Ostrovsky: How Putin built his new Russia with KGB tactics and television
National Post, March 8, 2017
American journalist Robert F. Worth wins 2017 Lionel Gelber Prize
Globe and Mail, February 28, 2017
Shadi Hamid: How the scholars and anti-imperialists invented Islamism
National Post, February 24, 2017
Rosa Brooks: How the U.S. military became a Walmart-like one-stop shop for lazy government
National Post, February 24, 2017
Laura Secor: The fish, the stream and the rise of theocratic Iran
National Post, February 23, 2017
Robert F. Worth: How the Islamists won after the miracle at Tahrir Square
National Post, February 22, 2017
2017 Lionel Gelber Book Prize Shortlist: The World As It Actually Is
Huffington Post, February 13, 2017
International shortlist announced for $15K foreign affairs book prize
CBC, February 2, 2017
Munk School of Global Affairs announces 2017 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlist
Quill & Quire, February 1, 2017
Awards: 2017 Lionel Gelber Prize jury announced
Quill & Quire, January 4, 2017
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