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World Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,508 ratings — published 2014
Diplomacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,573 ratings — published 1994
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 4.32 — 19,607 ratings — published 2004
On China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,509 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 — 14,399 ratings — published 1996
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.18 — 124,475 ratings — published 2015
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 4.30 — 13,152 ratings — published 2003
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.38 — 46,525 ratings — published 2022
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 — 2,270 ratings — published 2017
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.08 — 66,966 ratings — published 2012
The Post-American World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 3.86 — 12,917 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 — 39,266 ratings — published 2006
Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,821 ratings — published 2010
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.46 — 104,835 ratings — published 2009
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,013 ratings — published 1998
Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,885 ratings — published 2025
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,690 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 — 3,021 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 — 6,385 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 — 11,155 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 — 6,783 ratings — published 2006
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 — 20,603 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 — 9,906 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 — 1,912 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 — 10,074 ratings — published 1989
The Lexus and the Olive Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 3.61 — 8,585 ratings — published 1997
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,790 ratings — published 2005
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,806 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 — 7,668 ratings — published 2017
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,948 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 — 225,971 ratings — published 2011
Running The World: the Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 3.86 — 252 ratings — published 2005
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 3.96 — 16,146 ratings — published 2007
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.04 — 471,946 ratings — published 1997
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.09 — 8,083 ratings — published 2006
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,225 ratings — published 2008
From Beirut to Jerusalem (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,368 ratings — published 1989
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,651 ratings — published 1987
The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,244 ratings — published 2005
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.35 — 19,064 ratings — published 2023
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.25 — 6,934 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 — 1,276 ratings — published 2021
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.49 — 39,199 ratings — published 2020
East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity" (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 4.45 — 14,192 ratings — published 2016
The World: A Brief Introduction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,327 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 — 193,450 ratings — published 2018
Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,145 ratings — published 1954
Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy since 1938 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as foreign-affairs)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,363 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 — 72,982 ratings — published 1998
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 — 73,552 ratings — published 2012
“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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“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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