Most Read This Week In International Relations

International relations (IR) or international affairs, depending on academic institution, is either a field of political science, an interdisciplinary academic field similar to global studies, or an entirely independent academic discipline in which students take a variety of internationally focused courses in social science and humanities disciplines. In all cases, the field studies relationships between political entities (polities) such as sovereign states, inter-governmental organizations (IGOs), international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), other non-governmental organizations (NGO ...more

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Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Autocracy, Inc.
L'heure des prédateurs
If Russia Wins: A Scenario
Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
Iran's Grand Strategy: A Political History
House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
The World After Gaza: A Short History
Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy
How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain
The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
Tomorrow Is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine
Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News
Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's Great Power Prophet
How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
Why Taiwan Matters: A Short History of a Small Island That Will Dictate Our Future
Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis
Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China
The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made
The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power
Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
The Accidental Superpower: Ten Years On
The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World
The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order (Bridging the Gap)
Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power
Degrade and Destroy: The Inside Story of the War Against the Islamic State
Red Line: The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World
The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China
Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism
How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability
Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans
Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests (Center on Global Energy Policy Series)
Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise
By All Means Available: Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Operations, and Strategy
The World of the Cold War 1945-1991
Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine
The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between
Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People
Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
The Revenge of Power: How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century
American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery
Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World – An Urgent Analysis of Economic Coercion's Threat to Liberal Democracy
How the West Brought War to Ukraine: Understanding How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe
China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord
Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
The Good American: The Epic Life of Bob Gersony, the U.S. Government's Greatest Humanitarian
Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence
Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win
The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War
China's World View: Demystifying China to Prevent Global Conflict
Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor
Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine
Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism
The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power
Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West
Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars
A Message from Ukraine
World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century
Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order
Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy
Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World
A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War
The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941 (Dangerous Nation Trilogy)
The Two Michaels: Innocent Canadian Captives and High Stakes Espionage in the US-China Cyber War
After the End of History: Conversations with Francis Fukuyama
The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II
The Russian Understanding of War: Blurring the Lines between War and Peace
The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism
Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century
The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler
Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy
The World That Wasn't: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century
The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World
Wireless Wars: China's Dangerous Domination of 5G and How We're Fighting Back
Oil, the State, and War: The Foreign Policies of Petrostates
Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy
NATO: From Cold War to Ukraine, a History of the World’s Most Powerful Alliance
Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century
China Unbound: A New World Disorder

Peter Hitchens
Far too many people—many of them academics, many politicians—continue to jabber about a supposed 'special relationship' between our two countries. I used to think that no such thing existed. Recently, I have become convinced that it does, and that it is in fact a Specially Bad Relationship. ...more
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Abhijit Naskar
How come we can invent better ways to kill each other, but not one to preserve peace!
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