"That which unites also divides and the first object of statecraft is to stop things from getting out of hand.”
--Lionel Gelber (Preface to Crisis in the West, 1975)
Rules (Revised July 2011)
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1. All entries must be written in English and published between 1 January 2011 and 31 December 2011. Entries which have been originally published in another language between 1 January 2011 and 31 December 2011 and have been translated into English and published in English between 1 January 2011 and 31 December 2011 will be eligible.
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Deadline for submission is 31 October 2011. Books published between 31 October 2011 and 31 December 2011 may be submitted in galley form.
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A $50.00 per-entry handling fee is required. This amount should be made payable to the University of Toronto by cheque or money order.
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Each submission should deal with significant issues in foreign relations. Priority is given to books that provide information to the general audience through new perspectives and analysis.
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A collection of essays by one author is considered eligible if the essays are on a single theme. The work must not have been substantially reproduced elsewhere.
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Biographies, autobiographies and historical works are appropriate entries, if the majority of the text provides new awareness of, or insights into, the field of international relations.
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Posthumously published works are not eligible.
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A work by co-authors, if there are no more than two, is acceptable provided the whole work is integrated and coherent.
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The rules for eligibility shall be interpreted and may be revised from time to time at the discretion of the Board of Directors of The Lionel Gelber Prize Board.
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Any subsequent printing of the prize winning book in hard or soft cover must identify the book and the author as the 2011 Lionel Gelber Prize Winner.
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The author of the winning book will deliver two public lectures, one in Toronto and one at Foreign Policy Magazine in Washington D.C. within two weeks following the Toronto date..
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