| 2026 | Winner | Thinking Historically: A Guide to Statecraft and Strategy | Francis J. Gavin | Yale University Press |
| 2026 | Shortlist | Capitalism: A Global History | Sven Beckert | Penguin Press |
| 2026 | Shortlist | House of Huawei: Inside the Secret World of China’s Most Powerful Company | Eva Dou | Unknown |
| 2026 | Shortlist | How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation and the Fate of Nations | Carl Benedikt Frey | Princeton University Press |
| 2026 | Shortlist | King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion, and Catastrophic Miscalculation | Scott Anderson | Doubleday |
| 2025 | Winner | To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power | Sergey Radchenko | Cambridge University Press |
| 2025 | Shortlist | Dollars and Dominion: U.S. Bankers and the Making of a Superpower | Mary Bridges | Princeton University Press |
| 2025 | Shortlist | The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq | Steve Coll | Penguin Press |
| 2025 | Shortlist | The Good Allies: How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism during the Second World War | Tim Cook | Unknown |
| 2025 | Shortlist | To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement | Benjamin Nathans | Princeton University Press |
| 2024 | Winner | Homelands: A Personal History of Europe | Timothy Garton Ash | Yale University Press |
| 2024 | Shortlist | Power and Progress: Our 1000-year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity | Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson | Unknown |
| 2024 | Shortlist | Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises that Shaped Globalization | Harold James | Yale University Press |
| 2024 | Shortlist | Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy | Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman | Unknown |
| 2024 | Shortlist | We, The Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age | Wendy H. Wong | Unknown |
| 2023 | Winner | Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise | Susan L. Shirk | Oxford University Press |
| 2023 | Shortlist | Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology | Chris Miller | Scribner |
| 2023 | Shortlist | Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism | Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way | Princeton University Press |
| 2023 | Shortlist | Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century | J. Bradford DeLong | Basic Books |
| 2023 | Shortlist | 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 | Shortlist | Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe | Niall Ferguson | Penguin Press |
| 2022 | Shortlist | In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918–1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust | Jeffrey Veidlinger | Metropolitan Books |
| 2022 | Shortlist | The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order | Rush Doshi | Oxford University Press |
| 2022 | Shortlist | To End a Plague: America's Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa | Emily Bass | Unknown |
| 2021 | Winner | Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace | Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis | Yale University Press |
| 2020 | Winner | The Light that Failed: A Reckoning | Ivan Krastev, Stephen Holmes | Pegasus Books |
| 2019 | Winner | Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World | Adam Tooze | Penguin Books |
| 2019 | Shortlist | How Democracies Die | Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt | Unknown |
| 2019 | Shortlist | No Turning Back: Life, Loss and Hope in Wartime Syria | Rania Abouzeid | Oneworld |
| 2019 | Shortlist | The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America | Timothy Snyder | Tim Duggan Books |
| 2019 | Shortlist | The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State | Elizabeth C. Economy | Oxford University Press |
| 2018 | Winner | Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine | Anne Applebaum | Doubleday |
| 2018 | Shortlist | Asia’s Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century | Richard McGregor | Viking |
| 2018 | Shortlist | Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? | Graham Allison | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| 2018 | Shortlist | The Future of War: A History | Lawrence Freedman | PublicAffairs |
| 2018 | Shortlist | The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World | Oona A. Hathaway, Scott J. Shapiro | Simon & Schuster |
| 2017 | Winner | A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS | Robert F. Worth | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| 2017 | Shortlist | Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran | Laura Secor | Riverhead Books |
| 2017 | Shortlist | How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon | Rosa Brooks | Simon & Schuster |
| 2017 | Shortlist | Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World | Shadi Hamid | St. Martin's Press |
| 2017 | Shortlist | The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s War | Arkady Ostrovsky | Atlantic Books |
| 2016 | Winner | Objective Troy: A Terrorist, A President, and the Rise of the Drone | Scott Shane | Crown |
| 2016 | Shortlist | Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses – and Misuses – of History | Barry Eichengreen | Oxford University Press |
| 2016 | Shortlist | Kissinger 1923–1968: The Idealist | Niall Ferguson | Penguin Books |
| 2016 | Shortlist | The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War 1 & Revolution | Dominic Lieven | Unknown |
| 2016 | Shortlist | The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire | Susan Pedersen | Oxford University Press |
| 2015 | Winner | The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union | Serhii Plokhy | Basic Books |
| 2014 | Winner | The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide | Gary J. Bass | Knopf |
| 2014 | Shortlist | Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety | Eric Schlosser | Penguin Press |
| 2014 | Shortlist | Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present | Brendan Simms | Basic Books |
| 2014 | Shortlist | The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order | Benn Steil | Unknown |
| 2014 | Shortlist | Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939—1941 | Lynne Olson | Random House |
| 2013 | Winner | Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else | Chrystia Freeland | Penguin Press |
| 2013 | Shortlist | From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia | Pankaj Mishra | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| 2013 | Shortlist | Ghosts of Empire: Britain’s Legacies in the Modern World | Kwasi Kwarteng | Bloomsbury |
| 2013 | Shortlist | Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 | Anne Applebaum | Doubleday |
| 2013 | Shortlist | The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics | Paul Bracken | Henry Holt and Company |
| 2012 | Winner | Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China | Ezra F. Vogel | Harvard University Press |
| 2012 | Shortlist | A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War | Amanda Foreman | Unknown |
| 2012 | Shortlist | Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth | Frederick Kempe | G. P. Putnam's Sons |
| 2012 | Shortlist | George F. Kennan: An American Life | John Lewis Gaddis | W. W. Norton |
| 2012 | Shortlist | On China | Henry Kissinger | Penguin Press |
| 2011 | Winner | Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America | Shelagh Grant | Douglas & McIntyre |
| 2011 | Shortlist | Arrival City: The Final Migration and our Next World | Doug Saunders | Knopf Canada |
| 2011 | Shortlist | The Hungry World: America’s Cold War Battle Against Poverty in Asia | Nick Cullather | Harvard University Press |
| 2011 | Shortlist | Why the West Rules—For Now | Ian Morris | Unknown |
| 2011 | Shortlist | Yalta: The Price of Peace | Serhii M. Plokhy | Viking |
| 2010 | Winner | The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China | Jay Taylor | Belknap Press |
| 2009 | Winner | A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East | Lawrence Freedman | PublicAffairs |
| 2008 | Winner | The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It | Paul Collier | Oxford University Press |
| 2007 | Winner | The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 | Lawrence Wright | Knopf |
| 2006 | Winner | Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves | Adam Hochschild | Houghton Mifflin |
| 2004 | 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 |
| 2003 | Winner | America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy | Ivo H. Daalder, James M. Lindsay | Brookings Institution Press |
| 2002 | Winner | Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World | Walter Russell Mead | Knopf |
| 2001 | Winner | John Maynard Keynes, Fighting for Britain 1937-1946 | Robert Skidelsky | Viking |
| 2000 | Winner | A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China: An Investigative History | Patrick Tyler | PublicAffairs |
| 1999 | Winner | King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism In Colonial Africa | Adam Hochschild | Mariner Books |
| 1998 | Winner | Loosing the Bonds: The United States and South Africa In the Apartheid Years | Robert Kinloch Massie | Nan A. Talese |
| 1997 | Winner | Aftermath: The Remnants of War | Donovan Webster | Vintage Books |
| 1996 | Winner | Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev | Vladislav Zubok, Constantine Pleshakov | Harvard University Press |
| 1995 | Winner | The Age of Extremes: The Short 20th Century, 1914–1991 | Eric Hobsbawm | Vintage Books |
| 1994 | Winner | Blood and Belonging: Journeys Into the New Nationalism | Michael Ignatieff | Vintage Books |
| 1993 | Winner | Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising and the Arab World | Kanan Makiya | Jonathan Cape |
| 1992 | Winner | Truman | David McCullough | Simon & Schuster |
| 1991 | Winner | Code of Peace: Ethics and Security in the World of Warlord States | Dorothy V. Jones | University of Chicago Press |
| 1990 | Winner | The Search for Modern China | Jonathan D. Spence | W. W. Norton |