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The Lionel Gelber Prize – The Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
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  • About the Prize
    • Rules for Eligibility
    • Submission Process
    • Sponsor
    • Press Room
  • Lionel Gelber Biography
  • 2025 Lionel Gelber Prize
  • Prize by Years
  • Multimedia

2025

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To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power
Sergey Radchenko
Published by Cambridge University Press
What would it feel like To Run the World? The Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. In this panoramic new history of the conflict that defined the postwar era, Sergey Radchenko provides an unprecedented deep dive into the psychology of the Kremlin’s decision-making. He reveals how the Soviet struggle with the…
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The Shortlist
  • Steve Coll
    The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq
  • Benjamin Nathans
    To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
    Author article
  • Mary Bridges
    Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower
    Author article
  • Tim Cook
    The Good Allies: How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism during the Second World War
    Author article
Jurors
Janice Gross Stein
Jury Chair (Toronto, CA)
John Bew
London, UK
Nina Srinivasan Rathbun
Toronto, CA
Iain Martin
London, UK
Francis J. Gavin
Washington, DC
Press releases
2025 Lionel Gelber Prize awarded to Sergey Radchenko for To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power
2025 Gelber Prize Shortlist Press Release
Expert international jury announced for the 2025 Lionel Gelber Prize
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