Princeton University politics professor Gary J. Bass is the winner of the 2014 Lionel Gelber Prize for The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide (Alfred A. Knopf). The $15,000 prize is awarded to the world’s best English-language non-fiction book on significant international issues.

Bass will receive the award and deliver a free public lecture at the U of T’s Campbell Conference Facility on April 24. Along with Foreign Policy magazine, the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs partners with the Lionel Gelber Foundation, named for the late Canadian diplomat, to deliver the annual award.

This year’s jury, chaired by William Thorsell, comprised 2013 winner Chystia Freeland, Timothy Garton Ash, Daniel W. Drezner, and Matias Spektor.

In a press release, Thorsell said, Gary Bass draws a brilliant portrait of the tragic birth of Bangladesh. He produces shocking revelations about the role of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in backing Pakistan’s genocidal suppression of democracy in Bangladesh, even as American diplomats on the ground described the horrors around them. This is an epic tale told with verve and authority about war and diplomacy in toxic embrace.