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World Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,109 ratings — published 2014
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.31 — 19,002 ratings — published 2004
Diplomacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.25 — 9,480 ratings — published 1994
On China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,264 ratings — published 2011
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 3.78 — 14,126 ratings — published 1996
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.29 — 11,698 ratings — published 2003
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.19 — 118,277 ratings — published 2015
A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,253 ratings — published 2017
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.09 — 63,678 ratings — published 2012
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.46 — 100,475 ratings — published 2009
The Post-American World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 3.86 — 12,861 ratings — published 2008
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.36 — 37,825 ratings — published 2006
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.40 — 42,146 ratings — published 2022
Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,798 ratings — published 2010
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.22 — 37,009 ratings — published 1998
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.15 — 8,601 ratings — published 2018
Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,987 ratings — published 2014
The Revenge Of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 3.79 — 6,221 ratings — published 2012
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.26 — 11,060 ratings — published 2002
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,719 ratings — published 2006
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,576 ratings — published 2005
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.61 — 17,766 ratings — published 2020
Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.17 — 9,472 ratings — published 2020
The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,833 ratings — published 2019
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.22 — 9,859 ratings — published 1989
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,942 ratings — published 2006
The Lexus and the Olive Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 3.61 — 8,546 ratings — published 1997
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,321 ratings — published 2018
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.19 — 7,369 ratings — published 2017
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,782 ratings — published 2001
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 3.90 — 221,187 ratings — published 2011
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 3.95 — 15,427 ratings — published 2007
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.04 — 460,040 ratings — published 1997
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,202 ratings — published 2008
The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,221 ratings — published 2005
Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,422 ratings — published 2025
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.36 — 16,766 ratings — published 2023
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.25 — 6,734 ratings — published 2021
The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order (Bridging the Gap)
by (shelved 6 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,206 ratings — published 2021
The World: A Brief Introduction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,215 ratings — published 2020
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.47 — 170,451 ratings — published 2018
Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,114 ratings — published 1954
Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy since 1938 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,325 ratings — published 1971
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.19 — 69,628 ratings — published 1998
Running The World: the Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 3.86 — 253 ratings — published 2005
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.01 — 72,309 ratings — published 2012
War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.25 — 24,250 ratings — published 2010
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,199 ratings — published 2011
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.44 — 12,618 ratings — published 1991
From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,325 ratings — published 2008
“I should have paid greater attention to my mentor in graduate school, Samuel Huntington, who once explained that Americans never recognize that, in the developing world, the key is not the kind of government — communist, capitalist, democratic, dictatorial — but the degree of government. That absence of government is what we are watching these days, from Libya to Iraq to Syria.
(“Why they still hate us, 13 years later,” Washington Post, 09/05/2014)”
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(“Why they still hate us, 13 years later,” Washington Post, 09/05/2014)”
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“Do let me entreat you to say nothing that can be taken hold of by those anxious to foment trouble between ourselves and any foreign power, or who delight in giving the impression that as a nation we are walking about with a chip on our shoulder. We are too big a people to be able to be careless in what we say.”
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