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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 65,103 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 — 120,980 ratings — published 2015
World Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,304 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 — 631,502 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 — 102,686 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 — 204,384 ratings — published 2018
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 — 12,543 ratings — published 2003
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.46 — 102,190 ratings — published 2009
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 4,863 ratings — published 2000
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 9,308 ratings — published 2025
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 11,527 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 4.19 — 26,107 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 — 13,585 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 — 18,938 ratings — published 2020
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.15 — 180,099 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 — 1,974 ratings — published 2008
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.04 — 465,147 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 — 72,853 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 4.32 — 19,296 ratings — published 2004
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.36 — 38,477 ratings — published 2006
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.30 — 55,136 ratings — published 2007
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,257 ratings — published 2004
Infidel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.20 — 93,135 ratings — published 2006
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.87 — 40,029 ratings — published 2005
The Post-American World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.86 — 12,883 ratings — published 2008
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.39 — 44,108 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 — 13,694 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 — 17,882 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 — 10,215 ratings — published 2018
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.55 — 10,798 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 — 64,904 ratings — published 2019
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.52 — 165,066 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 — 110,595 ratings — published 2015
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,201 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 — 92,464 ratings — published 2018
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,294,581 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 — 16,916 ratings — published 2018
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
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avg rating 4.25 — 21,579 ratings — published 2018
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,405 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 — 7,480 ratings — published 2017
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.49 — 825,721 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 — 3,995 ratings — published 2007
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,259,328 ratings — published 1947
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,613 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 — 85,846 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 — 8,461 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 — 11,105 ratings — published 2002
Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.19 — 15,622 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 — 684 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 — 118,169 ratings — published 2012
“Why, per Freedom House, is democracy now "under assault and in retreat"? Why are many people in positions of power seeking to undermine public confidence in elections, the courts, the media, and--on the fundamental question of earth's future--science? Why have such dangerous splits been allowed to develop between rich and poor, urban and rural, those with a higher education and those without? Why has the United States--at least temporarily --abdicated its leadership in world affairs? And why, this far into the twenty-first century, are we once again talking about Fascism?
One reason, frankly, is Donald Trump. If we think of Fascism as a wound from the past that had almost healed, putting Trump in the White House was like ripping off the bandage and picking at the scab.”
― Fascism: A Warning
One reason, frankly, is Donald Trump. If we think of Fascism as a wound from the past that had almost healed, putting Trump in the White House was like ripping off the bandage and picking at the scab.”
― Fascism: A Warning
“There is no doubt in my mind that the South Sudanese civil war has exposed global hypocrisy in a stunning way — and I am not quite sure if this level of hypocrisy is a Western, African, or Eastern one.”
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