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The Lionel Gelber Prize – The Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
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  • About the Prize
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    • Press Room
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  • Multimedia

2009

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A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East
Sir Lawrence Freedman
Published by Doubleday Canada
Lionel Gelber Prize Lecture and Award Ceremony | 2009
The Shortlist

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

  • Misha Glenny
    McMafia: Crime Without Frontiers
  • Zakaria Fareed
    The Post-American World
  • Ahmed Rashid
    Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central America
  • Bill Emmott
    Rivals: How the Power Struggle between China, India and Japan will Shape Our Next Decade
Jurors
George Russell
Jury Chair (New York City, USA)
William Drozdiak
USA
Amity Shlaes
USA
Walter Russell Mead
USA
David M. Malone
Tokyo, Japan
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Lawrence Freedman’s A Choice of Enemies Wins 2009 Lionel Gelber Prize
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