| 2025 | Winner | The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq | Steve Coll | Penguin Press |
| 2025 | Finalist | Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America and the Making of a Crisis | Jonathan Blitzer | Penguin Press |
| 2025 | Finalist | To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power | Sergey Radchenko | Cambridge University Press |
| 2024 | Winner | Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia | Gary J. Bass | Knopf |
| 2024 | Finalist | The Absolutely Indispensable Man: Ralph Bunche, The United Nations, and the Fight to End Empire | Kal Raustiala | Unknown |
| 2024 | Finalist | Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy | Henry Farrell, Abraham L. Newman | Unknown |
| 2023 | Winner | Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology | Christopher R. Miller | Unknown |
| 2023 | Finalist | Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise | Susan L. Shirk | Oxford University Press |
| 2023 | Finalist | Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century | Sergei Guriev, Daniel Treisman | Unknown |
| 2022 | Winner | The American War in Afghanistan: A History | Carter Malkasian | Oxford University Press |
| 2022 | Finalist | Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of a Post-Cold War Stalemate | Mary Elise Sarotte | Unknown |
| 2022 | Finalist | This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race | Nicole Perlroth | Bloomsbury |
| 2021 | Winner | The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes | Zachary D. Carter | Random House |
| 2021 | Finalist | The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III | Peter Baker, Susan Glasser | Doubleday |
| 2021 | Finalist | The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again | Robert Putnam, Shaylyn Romney Garrett | Unknown |
| 2020 | Winner | Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland | Patrick Radden Keefe | William Collins |
| 2020 | Finalist | Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century | George Packer | Knopf |
| 2020 | Finalist | The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire | William Dalrymple | Bloomsbury Press |
| 2019 | Winner | These Truths: A History of the United States | Jill Lepore | W. W. Norton |
| 2019 | Finalist | Churchill: Walking with Destiny | Andrew Roberts | Penguin Books |
| 2019 | Finalist | Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945–1975 | Max Hastings | William Collins |
| 2018 | Winner | Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941 | Stephen Kotkin | Penguin Press |
| 2018 | Finalist | By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783 | Michael Green | Unknown |
| 2018 | Finalist | The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia | Masha Gessen | Riverhead Books |
| 2017 | Winner | The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present | John Pomfret | Henry Holt and Company |
| 2017 | Finalist | A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, From Tahrir Square to ISIS | Robert F. Worth | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| 2017 | Finalist | Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets | Svetlana Alexievich | Random House |
| 2016 | Winner | Kissinger 1923–1968: The Idealist | Niall Ferguson | Penguin Books |
| 2016 | Finalist | The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power | Thomas J. Christensen | Unknown |
| 2016 | Finalist | Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography—Volume II: Everything She Wants | Charles Moore | Vintage Books |
| 2015 | Winner | Capital in the Twenty-First Century | Thomas Piketty | Harvard University Press |
| 2015 | Finalist | Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928 | Stephen Kotkin | Penguin Press |
| 2015 | Honorable mention | Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China | Evan Osnos | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| 2014 | Winner | The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide | Gary J. Bass | Knopf |
| 2014 | Finalist | War Comes to Garmser: Thirty Years of Conflict on the Afghan Frontier | Carter Malkasian | Oxford University Press |
| 2014 | Honorable mention | The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order | Benn Steil | Unknown |
| 2013 | Winner | Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam | Fredrik Logevall | Random House |
| 2013 | Finalist | Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 | Anne Applebaum | Doubleday |
| 2013 | Honorable mention | Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty | Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson | Profile Books |
| 2012 | Winner | George F. Kennan: An American Life | John Lewis Gaddis | W. W. Norton |
| 2012 | Finalist | Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa | Jason Stearns | Unknown |
| 2012 | Honorable mention | The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World | Daniel Yergin | Penguin Press |
| 2011 | Winner | This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly | Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff | Unknown |
| 2011 | Finalist | Jihad in Saudi Arabia: Violence and Pan-Islamism since 1979 | Thomas Hegghammer | Cambridge University Press |
| 2011 | Honorable mention | How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace | Charles A. Kupchan | Princeton University Press |
| 2010 | Winner | Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World | Liaquat Ahamed | Penguin Press |
| 2010 | Finalist | In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan | Seth Jones | W. W. Norton |
| 2010 | Honorable mention | Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe | Gérard Prunier | Unknown |
| 2009 | Winner | Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China | Philip P. Pan | Simon & Schuster |
| 2009 | Finalist | Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia | Ahmed Rashid | Unknown |
| 2009 | Honorable mention | The Responsibility To Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All | Gareth Evans | Unknown |
| 2008 | Winner | The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It | Paul Collier | Oxford University Press |
| 2008 | Finalist | Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States | Trita Parsi | Unknown |
| 2008 | Honorable mention | Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power | Robert Dallek | Unknown |
| 2007 | Winner | Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers | Kwame Anthony Appiah | Unknown |
| 2007 | Finalist | Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War | Robert L. Beisner | Oxford University Press |
| 2007 | Honorable mention | Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005 | Thomas E. Ricks | Penguin Books |
| 2006 | Winner | Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 | Tony Judt | Penguin Books |
| 2006 | Finalist | Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah | Olivier Roy | Unknown |
| 2006 | Honorable mention | The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq | George Packer | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| 2005 | Winner | Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 | Steve Coll | Penguin Books |
| 2005 | Finalist | Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle | Stephen Biddle | Unknown |
| 2005 | Honorable mention | Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet | James Mann | Unknown |
| 2004 | Winner | The Age of Sacred Terror: Radical Islam's War Against America | Daniel Benjamin, Steven Simon | Unknown |
| 2004 | Finalist | The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty-First Century | Robert Cooper | Unknown |
| 2004 | Honorable mention | America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy | Ivo H. Daalder, James M. Lindsay | Brookings Institution Press |
| 2003 | Winner | "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide | Samantha Power | Basic Books |
| 2003 | Finalist | Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World | Margaret MacMillan | Unknown |
| 2003 | Honorable mention | The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History | Philip Bobbitt | Penguin Books |
| 2002 | Winner | John Maynard Keynes, Fighting for Britain 1937-1946 | Robert Skidelsky | Viking |
| 2002 | Finalist | Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam | Lawrence Freedman | Unknown |
| 2002 | Honorable mention | Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World | Walter Russell Mead, Richard C. Leone | Unknown |