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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.09 — 64,313 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 4.19 — 119,439 ratings — published 2015
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.35 — 203,421 ratings — published 2018
World Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,188 ratings — published 2014
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.16 — 628,341 ratings — published 2012
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,626 ratings — published 2005
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 4.29 — 12,022 ratings — published 2003
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.46 — 101,236 ratings — published 2009
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,848 ratings — published 2000
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 — 13,176 ratings — published 2021
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.15 — 179,198 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 — 1,971 ratings — published 2008
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.04 — 462,094 ratings — published 1997
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.01 — 72,548 ratings — published 2012
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.31 — 19,136 ratings — published 2004
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.78 — 14,159 ratings — published
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.36 — 38,093 ratings — published 2006
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.30 — 54,629 ratings — published 2007
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,026 ratings — published 2004
Infidel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.20 — 92,923 ratings — published 2006
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.87 — 39,841 ratings — published 2005
The Post-American World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.86 — 12,871 ratings — published 2008
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.40 — 42,945 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 4.16 — 13,520 ratings — published 2022
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.36 — 17,201 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 — 10,043 ratings — published 2018
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.31 — 11,394 ratings — published 2021
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.55 — 10,668 ratings — published 2006
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.19 — 25,599 ratings — published 2021
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.27 — 64,736 ratings — published 2019
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.52 — 163,769 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 — 109,708 ratings — published 2015
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,073 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 4.52 — 91,069 ratings — published 2018
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,281,953 ratings — published 2011
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.09 — 16,833 ratings — published 2018
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,353 ratings — published 2012
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.20 — 7,428 ratings — published 2017
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.49 — 818,386 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 — 3,990 ratings — published 2007
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,233,623 ratings — published 1947
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,606 ratings — published 2014
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.07 — 85,071 ratings — published 2004
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.81 — 8,448 ratings — published 2007
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.26 — 11,081 ratings — published 2002
Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.19 — 15,543 ratings — published 2010
State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.52 — 682 ratings — published 2004
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.98 — 117,616 ratings — published 2012
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,085 ratings — published 2010
The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.00 — 890 ratings — published 2005
“...the qualifications that I have to speak on world affairs are exactly the same ones Henry Kissinger has, and Walt Rostow has, or anybody in the Political Science Department, professional historians—none, none that you don't have. The only difference is, I don't pretend to have qualifications, nor do I pretend that qualifications are needed. I mean, if somebody were to ask me to give a talk on quantum physics, I'd refuse—because I don't understand enough. But world affairs are trivial: there's nothing in the social sciences or history or whatever that is beyond the intellectual capacities of an ordinary fifteen-year-old. You have to do a little work, you have to do some reading, you have to be able to think but there's nothing deep—if there are any theories around that require some special kind of training to understand, then they've been kept a carefully guarded secret.”
― Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
― Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
“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
