The Origins of Alliances (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
By: Stephen M. Walt
3.98
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
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1. One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
By: Michael Dobbs
4.24
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to … read more
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2. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
By: Samuel P. Huntington
3.77
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
"Sam Huntington, one of the West's most eminent political scientists, presents a challenging framew… read more
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- international relations
- history
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- political science
"يقول ريجيه ديبراي Régis Debray أن الدين ليس (أفيون الشعوب) وإنما (فيتامين الضعفاء)"-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
"Multiculturalism is in its essence anti-European civilization. It is basically an anti-Western ideology."-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
"Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history."-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
"It is absurd to assume that the new political societies emerging in the East will be copies of the societies we know in the West."-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
3. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
By: John J. Mearsheimer , Stephen M. Walt
4.07
Format: 484 pages, Hardcover
The Israel Lobby," by John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harva… read more
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- political science
4. Leviathan
By: Thomas Hobbes , Crawford Brough Macpherson
3.71
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short' Written during the chaos of the En… read more
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"Hell is truth seen too late."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
"LET THE GAY BEGI- I MEAN GAMES BEGIN!"-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
"The Conscience is a thousand witnesses."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
" Scientia potentia est. Knowledge is power."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
5. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
By: Mary Beard
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more
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- nonfiction
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6. The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
By: Tom Nichols
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The rise of the internet and other technology has made information more easily-accessible than ever… read more
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8. We
By: Yevgeny Zamyatin , Clarence Brown
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst exce… read more
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"Her smile was a bite, and I was its target."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"There is no final one; revolutions are infinite."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
9. Arms and Influence
By: Thomas C. Schelling
4.37
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Traditionally, Americans have viewed war as an alternative to diplomacy, and military strategy as t… read more
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10. Politics Among Nations
By: Hans J. Morgenthau , Kenneth W. Thompson , David Clinton
3.76
Format: 6 pages, Paperback
Hans Morgenthau's classic text established realism as the fundamental way of thinking about interna… read more
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11. Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis
By: Kenneth N. Waltz
4.07
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
What are the causes of war? To answer this question, Professor Waltz examines the ideas of major th… read more
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12. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson
4.08
Format: 529 pages, Hardcover
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more
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"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminad…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"A América do Norte tornou-se mais próspera precisamente porque adotou com entusiasmo as tecnologias e os progressos da Revolução Industrial. (…) A desigualdade no mundo atual é, em grande medida, uma…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
13. East of Eden
By: John Steinbeck
4.42
Format: 601 pages, Paperback
In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed … read more
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"All great and precious things are lonely."-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
"No one who is young is ever going to be old."-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
"Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.."-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
"A man without words is a man without thought."-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
14. War and Change in World Politics
By: Robert Gilpin
3.22
Format: 402 pages, Paperback
Using history, sociology and economic theory to uncover the forces behind change in the world order… read more
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15. Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
By: Graham Allison
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES ARE HEADING TOWARD A WAR NEITHER WANTS. The reason is Thucydides's Trap… read more
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16. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
By: Paul Kennedy
3.77
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
THE WIDELY ACCLAIMED BESTSELLER THAT BOLDLY AND LUCIDLY PUTS OUR CURRENT ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL DIL… read more
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17. On War
By: Michael Eliot Howard , Carl von Clausewitz , Peter Paret
3.75
Format: None pages,
Carl von Clausewitz's On Warhas been called, "not simply the greatest, but the only truly great boo… read more
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18. The Strategy of Conflict: With a New Preface by the Author
By: Thomas C. Schelling
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
A series of closely interrelated essays on game theory, this book deals with an area in which progr… read more
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19. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
By: John J. Mearsheimer
3.71
Format: 364 pages,
The update of this classic treatise on the behavior of great powers takes a penetrating look at the… read more
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20. Diplomacy
By: Henry Kissinger
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A brilliant, sweeping history of diplomacy that includes personal stories from the noted former Sec… read more
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21. History of the Peloponnesian War
By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner
3.94
Format: 648 pages, Paperback
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more
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"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
22. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
By: Jared Diamond
3.68
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
'Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope . . . one of the most important and readable works … read more
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23. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more
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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."-Plato, The Republic
"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."-Plato, The Republic
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"-Plato, The Republic
24. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
25. Stillness Is the Key
By: Ryan Holiday
4.23
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, bestselling author Ryan Holiday made ancient wisdo… read more
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"Build a life you don't need to escape from."-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key
"Routine, done for long enough and done sincerely enough, becomes more than routine. It becomes ritual—it becomes sanctified and holy."-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key
"If solitude is the school of genius, as the historian Edward Gibbon put it, then the crowded, busy world is the purgatory of the idiot."-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key
"Put yourself in tough situations. Accept challenges. Familiarize yourself with the unfamiliar. That's how you widen your perspective and your understanding."-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key
26. The Origins of Alliances (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
By: Stephen M. Walt
3.98
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
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27. The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War—A Tragedy in Three Acts
By: Scott Anderson
4.14
Format: 562 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a gripping history of the early years of the Col… read more
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28. Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
By: Thomas Rid
4.15
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
This revelatory and dramatic history of disinformation traces the rise of secret organized deceptio… read more
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29. Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
By: Sergei Guriev
3.98
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
How a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking democracy Hitler… read more
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- political science
"As countries became postindustrial, educated, and internationally linked, their rulers had to adapt—or, at least, pretend to. Amid the third wave of democracy, liberal norms spread worldwide. The for…"-Sergei Guriev, Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
"These four changes—in the nature of work, education, social values, and communication technology—make it harder for dictators to dominate citizens in the old way. Harsh laws and bureaucratic regulati…"-Sergei Guriev, Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
"These four changes—in the nature of work, education, social values, and communication technology—make it harder for dictators to dominate citizens in the old way. Harsh laws and bureaucratic regulati…"-Sergei Guriev, Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
30. The Fateful Alliance: France, Russia and the Coming of the First World War
By: George F. Kennan
3.87
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Chronicles the collapse of a confident, forward-looking Europe into World War I read more
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31. Russia and the New World Disorder
By: Bobo Lo
4.12
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Russian annexation of Crimea was one of the great strategic shocks of the past twenty-five year… read more
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