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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.08 — 67,157 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 4.18 — 124,842 ratings — published 2015
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.04 — 472,581 ratings — published 1997
The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,198 ratings — published 2014
World Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,526 ratings — published 2014
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.18 — 295,756 ratings — published 2015
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,327,669 ratings — published 2011
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.35 — 206,730 ratings — published 2018
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,250 ratings — published 1971
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.55 — 77,913 ratings — published 2025
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.35 — 19,164 ratings — published 2023
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.26 — 11,157 ratings — published 2002
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.18 — 27,337 ratings — published 2021
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.31 — 287,074 ratings — published 2020
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,549 ratings — published 2021
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.47 — 194,883 ratings — published 2018
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.15 — 182,316 ratings — published 2018
The Retreat of Western Liberalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,020 ratings — published 2017
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 3.98 — 119,335 ratings — published 2012
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.31 — 296,717 ratings — published 2025
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.28 — 112,998 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 — 5,299 ratings — published 2013
The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,171 ratings — published 2011
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.36 — 39,362 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 — 87,700 ratings — published 2004
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.77 — 6,297 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 — 149,477 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 — 11,124 ratings — published 2023
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.21 — 44,187 ratings — published 2009
Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,559 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 — 1,261 ratings — published 2022
There are No Falling Stars in China (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.26 — 70 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 — 241 ratings — published 2010
Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,039 ratings — published 2022
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,403 ratings — published 2018
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.38 — 46,769 ratings — published 2022
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,065 ratings — published 1998
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 3.97 — 76,763 ratings — published 1995
To Rule the Waves: How Control of the World's Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.20 — 368 ratings — published
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,262 ratings — published 2021
The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,352 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 — 4,724 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 3.79 — 632 ratings — published 2008
Infidel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.20 — 93,628 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)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 3.83 — 5,706 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 — 7,431 ratings — published 1998
Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,147 ratings — published 1954
Arms and Influence (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,130 ratings — published 1967
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.16 — 52,222 ratings — published 2015
Diplomacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as global-affairs)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,583 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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