February 8, 2022
Judith Gelber, Chair of the Lionel Gelber Prize Board, announces the shortlist for the 2022 Lionel Gelber Prize as follows:
- To End a Plague: America’s Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa by Emily Bass (Public Affairs, Hachette Book Group)
- The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order by Rush Doshi (Oxford University Press)
- Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson (Penguin Random House)
- The American War in Afghanistan: A History by Carter Malkasian (Oxford University Press)
- In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918–1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust by Jeffrey Veidlinger (HarperCollins)
“This year’s shortlisted books provide deep insights about our recent past with valuable lessons for our collective future. The shortlisted books grapple with pandemics and disasters; explore how violent riots laid the foundation for genocide; detail the complicated history of a decades-long conflict and study the shifting global order from the perspective of an emerging global superpower. We extend our deep thanks to the Lionel Gelber Prize jury for their thoughtful selections for this year’s prize,” said Judith Gelber, Chair of the Lionel Gelber Prize Board.
This year’s shortlist was selected by the 2022 Lionel Gelber Prize Jury: Janice Gross Stein, Jury Chair (Toronto), Janine di Giovanni (New York), Francis J. Gavin (Washington), James Goldgeier (Washington), and Doug Saunders (Toronto).
Learn more about this year’s jury.
Winner Announcement:
The winner will be announced on April 12, 2022. The winning author will take part in an online event hosted by Foreign Policy and the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy on May 10th, 2022. Beginning Tuesday, March 8, 2022, feature interviews with each of the shortlisted authors finalists will be released every Tuesday on the Lionel Gelber Prize website, the Munk School’s YouTube channel, and on Apple podcasts.