World Affairs


Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
World Order
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
Madeleine K. Albright
Why, per Freedom House, is democracy now "under assault and in retreat"? Why are many people in positions of power seeking to undermine public confidence in elections, the courts, the media, and--on the fundamental question of earth's future--science? Why have such dangerous splits been allowed to develop between rich and poor, urban and rural, those with a higher education and those without? Why has the United States--at least temporarily --abdicated its leadership in world affairs? And why, th ...more
Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

Noam Chomsky
...the qualifications that I have to speak on world affairs are exactly the same ones Henry Kissinger has, and Walt Rostow has, or anybody in the Political Science Department, professional historians—none, none that you don't have. The only difference is, I don't pretend to have qualifications, nor do I pretend that qualifications are needed. I mean, if somebody were to ask me to give a talk on quantum physics, I'd refuse—because I don't understand enough. But world affairs are trivial: there's ...more
Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky

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