In 2001, Mead published "Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How it Changed the World". It won the Lionel Gelber Award for the best book in English on International Relations in 2002. The Italian translation won the Premio Acqui Storia, an annual award for the most important historical book published. "Special Providence," which stemmed from an article originally published in the Winter 1999/2000 issue of "The National Interest", "The Jacksonian Tradition," describes the four main guiding philosophies that have influenced the formation of American foreign policy in history: the Hamiltonians, the Wilsonians, the Jeffersonians, and the Jacksonians.