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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.08 — 67,874 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 10 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.18 — 126,330 ratings — published 2015
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.16 — 641,802 ratings — published 2012
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,947 ratings — published 2025
World Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,611 ratings — published 2014
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.46 — 106,195 ratings — published 2009
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,854 ratings — published 2005
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.35 — 207,931 ratings — published 2018
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,338,539 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.04 — 475,386 ratings — published 1997
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.30 — 13,370 ratings — published 2003
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.32 — 19,775 ratings — published 2004
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,930 ratings — published 2000
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.31 — 11,889 ratings — published 2021
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.18 — 27,721 ratings — published 2021
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.32 — 14,913 ratings — published 2021
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.61 — 21,429 ratings — published 2020
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 183,119 ratings — published 2018
When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,984 ratings — published 2008
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 73,931 ratings — published 2012
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.78 — 14,475 ratings — published 1996
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.36 — 39,986 ratings — published 2006
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.31 — 56,757 ratings — published 2007
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.94 — 76,003 ratings — published 2004
Infidel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.20 — 93,858 ratings — published 2006
The Bookseller of Kabul (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.78 — 58,731 ratings — published 2002
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.88 — 40,608 ratings — published 2005
The Post-American World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.86 — 12,932 ratings — published 2008
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.01 — 12,435 ratings — published 2023
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.28 — 114,497 ratings — published 2017
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.48 — 40,096 ratings — published 2020
Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.85 — 5,908 ratings — published 2024
Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.15 — 20,125 ratings — published 2024
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.38 — 47,622 ratings — published 2022
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.15 — 14,130 ratings — published 2022
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.35 — 19,633 ratings — published 2023
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.42 — 10,635 ratings — published 2018
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.55 — 11,245 ratings — published 2006
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.27 — 65,475 ratings — published 2019
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.52 — 169,550 ratings — published 2020
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.44 — 114,911 ratings — published 2015
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,651 ratings — published 2019
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.51 — 98,298 ratings — published 2018
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.09 — 17,148 ratings — published 2018
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,890 ratings — published 2018
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944 - 1956 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,568 ratings — published 2012
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.19 — 7,735 ratings — published 2017
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.48 — 854,991 ratings — published 2016
China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,012 ratings — published 2007
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,350,574 ratings — published 1947
“It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force”
― A Concise History of the Modern World
― A Concise History of the Modern World
“There is coming a day, when freedom will just be a essence of the mind, an inner dwelling that was once physically attainable. They will tell you where you can live, and what you can wear and drive, what and how much you can eat and drink, and how to purchase those. They will strip you of your religion, race, gender, national origin, age, color, creed, views and power, and have control of the population. They will set in a new world order, and put you in the back of the line, marked and branded. Everything before will be erased, and the new will be manipulated. And what you believe most, can only be kept secret, for all must fall in line of their govern. Anything outside will be abolished. Even death, will be sought, but restrained. They will execute complete and total control over everything, and be sole owners of your soul. The light, that once guided will go dim, and liberty will be like an unwilled bird, suppressed in the cage of your ribs; wings cut off.”
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