How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy
By: John J. Mearsheimer
3.88
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking examination of a central question in international Do states act rationally? To…
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1. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
By: Alastair Smith , Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For eighteen years, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith have been part of a team revolutioni… read more
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2. Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
By: Saul D. Alinsky
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
First published in 1971, Rules for Radicalsis Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals … read more
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3. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
By: Naomi Klein
4.52
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedm… read more
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4. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
By: Niall Ferguson
3.69
Format: 47 pages,
"Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it… read more
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5. The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars have been Won and Lost
By: None
4.67
Format: 46 pages, Hardcover
Cathal Nolan's The Allure of Battleshows that while wars have shaped the history of the modern worl… read more
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6. The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War
By: Jim Sciutto
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The essential new book by CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto, reporting from the… read more
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7. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.30
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more
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"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
8. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
By: Steve Coll
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more
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9. Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
By: Daron Acemoğlu
3.90
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankers deliver a… read more
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10. Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine
By: David H. Petraeus
4.06
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
Two leading authorities—an acclaimed historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strate… read more
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"A recurring theme of this book is that money spent on deterrence is seldom wasted, especially when considered against the costs incurred when the deterrence fails."-David H. Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine
"Hybrid warfare particularly appeals to China and Russia, since they are much more able to control the information their populaces receive than are their Western adversaries. A 1999 book, Unrestricted…"-David H. Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine
11. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
By: Mustafa Suleyman
3.86
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more
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12. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
By: Yanis Varoufakis
4.01
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more
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"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
13. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
By: Rob Copeland
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more
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14. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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15. The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China
By: Robert D. Kaplan
4.32
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A stunning exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just ou… read more
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16. On Grand Strategy
By: John Lewis Gaddis
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught… read more
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17. The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order (Bridging the Gap)
By: Rush Doshi
4.04
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries - not Nazi Germany, Imperial J… read more
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18. Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World
By: Ryan Holiday
4.21
Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition
In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for… read more
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19. How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy
By: John J. Mearsheimer
3.88
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking examination of a central question in international Do states act rationally? To… read more
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20. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy
By: Henry Farrell
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A deeply researched investigation that reveals how the United States is like a spider at the heart … read more
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21. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
