This Canadian award is for the best English non-fiction foreign affair novel. The winner will recieve a $15,000 prize. The money is founded in memory of Canadian Diplomat Lionel Gelber. The winner will be announced on February 27th, and the ceremony will be held on March 15 at Munk School of Global Affairs.

Here are the finalists for 2011:

• Amanda Foreman, A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War (Random House)
• Frederick Kempe, Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth (G.P. Putnam’s Sons/Penguin)
• Ezra F. Vogel, Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China (Belknap/Harvard University Press)
• John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American Life (Penguin)
• Henry Kissinger, On China (Penguin)