Five books have been named to the shortlist of this year’s Lionel Gelber Prize.

The $50,000 award, presented annually by the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, is given to the top book on international affairs published in English.

The shortlisted titles are:

• Power and Progress: Our 1000-year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson (PublicAffairs/Hachette Book Group)
• Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy by Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman (Henry Holt and Co./Macmillan)
• Homelands: A Personal History of Europe by Timothy Garton Ash (Yale University Press)
• Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization by Harold James (Yale University Press)
• We, The Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age by Wendy H. Wong (MIT Press)

This year’s shortlisted authors were chosen by a jury comprised of chair Janice Gross Stein, returning jurors Rosa Brooks and Francis J. Gavin, London-based journalist and author Iain Martin, and Globe and Mail journalist Eric Reguly.

The winner will be announced on March 6.