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Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
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Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
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War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, Geopolitics
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After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made
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Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How To Take It Back
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Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
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Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
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Dark Skies: Space Expansionism, Planetary Geopolitics, and the Ends of Humanity
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Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
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The Revolution that Failed: Nuclear Competition, Arms Control, and the Cold War
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The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future
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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
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Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump
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We Need to Talk About Putin: Why the West Gets Him Wrong, and How to Get Him Right
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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
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Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016
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The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un
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The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
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Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
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The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
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Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil
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Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
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Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil
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1946: The Making of the Modern World
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
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Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
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Interpol: Issues in World Crime and International Justice
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Diplomacy
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Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
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Beter wordt het niet: Een reis door het Habsburgse Rijk en de Europese Unie
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The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
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Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security
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Tomorrow's Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa (Dispatch Books)
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Cashless: China's Digital Currency Revolution
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This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
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The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
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Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem, and Russia's Attack on the West
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Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
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Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women
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China's Civilian Army: The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy
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War in 140 Characters: How Social Media Is Reshaping Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
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The Best and the Brightest
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How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
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Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
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The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957
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The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
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How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
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The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
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How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
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Grensstreken: Waarom grenzen liggen waar ze liggen
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American Diplomacy: A History
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American Diplomacy
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Legalist Empire: International Law and American Foreign Relations in the Early Twentieth Century
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
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An Insider's Guide to the UN
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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
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This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
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On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future
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Kings and Presidents: Saudi Arabia and the United States since FDR (Geopolitics in the 21st Century)
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MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman
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The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited
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Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East
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Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
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The Vietnam War: A Concise International History
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The Korean War
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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy 1945-1975
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Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
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The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor
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Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy
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The Scramble for African Oil: Oppression, Corruption and War for Control of Africa's Natural Resources (New Politics, Progressive Policy
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Blood and Diamonds: Germany’s Imperial Ambitions in Africa
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The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
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Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe
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Chasing The Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World
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Interventions: A Life in War and Peace
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All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class
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The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
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Endgame: The Betrayal And Fall Of Srebrenica, Europe's Worst Massacre Since World War II
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone
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Russian Hybrid Warfare: Understanding the new way of war
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Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
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The Licit Life of Capitalism: US Oil in Equatorial Guinea
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The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy
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Land of Tears: The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa
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Chemical Warrior: Syria, Salisbury and Saving Lives at War
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The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
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The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-Five Minutes in History and Imagination
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Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts
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The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder
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The Undersea Network
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The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War
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Germany's Russia problem: The struggle for balance in Europe
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The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War
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