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American politician and diplomat (1923–2023)
Barack Obama’s 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was unusually polarizing because it was awarded early in a presidency while the United States remained at war, producing intense global attention and domestic ske...
The Nobel Peace Prize has repeatedly provoked controversy for reasons that include perceived politicisation of selections, disputed judgments about whether recipients truly advanced peace, notable omi...
Jeffrey Epstein's "little black book" is a collection of contact entries—names, phone numbers, addresses and other notes—recovered from his properties and circulated publicly in redacted and unredacte...
The Nobel Peace Prize has a long history of laureates later accused of wrongdoing or of failing to uphold peace, producing controversies ranging from resignations and reputational damage to public cal...
Only two Nobel laureates are widely reported to have refused a Nobel Prize: Jean-Paul Sartre (declined the 1964 Literature Prize) and North Vietnamese negotiator Lê Đức Thọ (declined the 1973 Peace Pr...
Public pressure — from governments, political rivals or public opinion — has at times led Nobel laureates to threaten to return, decline, or actually part with their medals, with mixed outcomes: autho...
The United States played a decisive logistical and diplomatic role in the 1973 Arab-Israeli war by executing a major strategic airlift—Operation Nickel Grass—that delivered roughly of weapons, ammunit...
There have been notable controversies over the characters and records of some Nobel Peace Prize recipients and other high-profile awardees, with historical examples cited and contemporary debates abou...
The Nobel Peace Prize has repeatedly provoked debate because selections sometimes appear political, premature, or out of step with Alfred Nobel’s original language on “peace” — a pattern scholars and ...
The LaRouche movement germinated a distinctive repertoire of conspiratorial themes—an international financier “synarchist” cabal, coded Illuminati/Freemason and Jewish-banker tropes, and a repurposed ...
The Nobel committees have, as a rule, treated post‑award political controversy by holding decisions as final, refusing to rescind or transfer prizes, and largely declining to publicly police laureates...
Controversial Nobel selections have repeatedly forced institutional tweaks and inflamed public debate about who should decide global honors, prompting concrete procedural changes in committee composit...
The Nobel Prizes have produced enduring triumphs and recurring scandals: the Peace Prize has provoked the greatest uproar for political choices such as Henry Kissinger , while scientific and literary ...
The Norwegian Nobel Committee’s membership—and particularly its long history of being filled with active politicians appointed by the Storting—has repeatedly sparked controversy that shaped both speci...
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee based on Alfred Nobel’s will, using nominations from a defined list of qualified nominators and a committee appointed by the Norwegian...