The annual Arthur Ross Book Award recognizes books that make an outstanding contribution to the understanding of foreign policy or international relations. Gary Bass, the William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War and a professor of politics and international affairs, received the Council on Foreign Relations 2024 Arthur Ross Book Award Gold Medal for “Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia” (Alfred A. Knopf), his massive, definitive history of the Nuremberg trials’ lesser-known Asian counterpart.

“Gary Bass’s Judgment at Tokyo is an extraordinary accomplishment. It brings the lesser-known Pacific theater war trials back to the top of the historical agenda, showing how—flawed as they were—they nevertheless shaped the postwar era,” said Gideon Rose, CFR adjunct senior fellow and chair of the award jury. “With great insight, great writing, and great heart, Bass explores epic questions of war, peace, and morality that remain as crucial today as they were in the 1940s.”