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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 66,319 ratings — published 2012
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.19 — 123,101 ratings — published 2015
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.04 — 469,463 ratings — published 1997
The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,152 ratings — published 2014
World Order (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 14,435 ratings — published 2014
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
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avg rating 4.18 — 294,103 ratings — published 2015
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,313,327 ratings — published 2011
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 205,741 ratings — published 2018
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 9,087 ratings — published 1971
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.56 — 71,984 ratings — published 2025
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 18,645 ratings — published 2023
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 11,136 ratings — published 2002
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 26,772 ratings — published 2021
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.31 — 284,859 ratings — published 2020
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 18,313 ratings — published 2021
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 187,985 ratings — published 2018
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 181,310 ratings — published 2018
The Retreat of Western Liberalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 3,002 ratings — published 2017
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 118,926 ratings — published 2012
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 280,326 ratings — published 2025
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.29 — 116,812 ratings — published 2017
How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,246 ratings — published 2013
The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 4,139 ratings — published 2011
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 38,979 ratings — published 2006
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.06 — 86,944 ratings — published 2004
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.77 — 5,847 ratings — published 2025
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.12 — 137,709 ratings — published 2025
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.21 — 10,885 ratings — published 2023
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.21 — 43,365 ratings — published 2009
Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 4,540 ratings — published 2021
One Nation Under Blackmail, Vol. 1: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,234 ratings — published 2022
There are No Falling Stars in China (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.26 — 68 ratings — published
Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 3.69 — 238 ratings — published 2010
Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 2,986 ratings — published 2022
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 4,369 ratings — published 2018
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 45,689 ratings — published 2022
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 37,864 ratings — published 1998
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 76,423 ratings — published 1995
To Rule the Waves: How Control of the World's Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 364 ratings — published
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.62 — 2,252 ratings — published 2021
The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,345 ratings — published 2016
Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) : True Stories from a War Zone
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,706 ratings — published 2004
The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 3.80 — 632 ratings — published 2008
Infidel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.20 — 93,439 ratings — published 2006
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 5,698 ratings — published 2006
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,307 ratings — published 1998
Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,143 ratings — published 1954
Arms and Influence (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,124 ratings — published 1967
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 51,471 ratings — published 2015
Diplomacy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 9,670 ratings — published 1994
“Trade wars and tariffs are written in numbers—but human hardship is written in lost homes, canceled crops, and closed horizons.”
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