7 must-read international relations books like The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power by Robert D. Kaplan

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The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power

By: Robert D. Kaplan

3.82

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tr…

If you liked the international relations plot in The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power by Robert D. Kaplan , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

Twice a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author Barbara Tuchman now tackles the pervasive presence of … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction

2. Napoleon, De schaduw van de revolutie

By: Bart Van Loo

3.61

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

Bart Van Loo verovert met Napoleon de Lage Landen. Napoleon fascineert. Hij is een van de meest inv… read more

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3. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

By: Yascha Mounk

4.08

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
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4. 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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  • international relations
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • political science
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5. Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land

By: Jacob Mikanowski

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea. Today it calls to min… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination

By: Stuart A. Reid

4.40

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the US-sanctioned plot… read more

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  • international relations
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. 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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  • international relations
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

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8. 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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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

By: Martin Wolf

3.97

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the chief economics commentator of the Financial Times, a magnificent reckoning with how and w… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
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10. Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy

By: Henry Kissinger

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and… read more

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  • international relations
  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
"Well before the end of the 20th century however print had lost its former dominance. This resulted in, among other things, a different kind of person getting elected as leader. One who can present hi…"

-Henry Kissinger, Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy

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11. MegaThreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, And How to Survive Them

By: Nouriel Roubini

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Read and pay attention" (Martin Wolf, the Financial Times ): the bestselling author of Crisis Econ… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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12. The Fourth Turning Is Here:

By: Neil Howe

3.96

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Twenty-five years ago, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss dazzled the world with a provocative … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

By: Jonathan Blitzer

4.49

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. 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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  • international relations
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
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15. The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power

By: Robert D. Kaplan

3.82

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tr… read more

Similar categories in Robert D. Kaplan's The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power book and Robert D. Kaplan's The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power

  • international relations
  • classics
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
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16. The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between

By: Sulmaan Wasif Khan

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A concise, definitive history of the duel between the US and China over the fate of Taiwan  As ten… read more

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  • international relations
  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. De macht van het verleden

By: Ivo van de Wijdeven

3.75

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

Vladimir Poetin houdt van geschiedenis. Zijn vurige redevoeringen zitten er vol mee. Velen verklare… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics by Elle Reeve

18. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

By: Elle Reeve

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Pola… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality

By: Renee DiResta

4.17

Format: 425 pages, Kindle Edition

 A brilliant, original investigation into the radical shift of power as invisible rulers create bes… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
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20. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
"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.

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21. War in Ukraine: Conflict, Strategy, and the Return of a Fractured World

By: Hal Brands

4.07

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

The war in Ukraine has altered the course of global history. These authors explore how. When Vladi… read more

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  • history

13 must-read audiobook books like The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power by Robert D. Kaplan

Transform Your Habits

The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

Yascha Mounk

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land

Jacob Mikanowski

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination

Stuart A. Reid

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

David H. Petraeus

4.06

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21 Best audiobook books like The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination by Stuart A. Reid

Transform Your Habits

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

4.37

Transform Your Habits

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

4.51

Transform Your Habits

King: A Life

Jonathan Eig

4.67

Transform Your Habits

Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

Christopher Clark

4.18

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