Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy
By: Priscilla Clapp
3.68
Format: 415 pages, Paperback
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1. How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region
By: Joe Studwell
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
How Asia Works( Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region) Hardcover JoeStudwell G… read more
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2. The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
4.28
Format: 627 pages, Paperback
Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and the Lan… read more
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"Most young men and women (...) grow up in a sort of permanent present lacking any organic relation to the public past of the times they live in. This makes historians, whose business it is to remembe…"-Eric J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
3. Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy During the Cold War
By: John Lewis Gaddis
3.63
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Strategies of Containmentwas first published, the Soviet Union was still a superpower, Ronald … read more
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4. Power: A Radical View
By: Steven Lukes
4.40
Format: 82 pages,
Steven Lukes' Power: A Radical View is a seminal work still widely used some 30 years after publica… read more
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5. The Prince
By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez
3.84
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more
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"Is it better to be loved or feared?"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
6. 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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7. Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
By: Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
3.74
Format: None pages, Paperback
This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germ… read more
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8. The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918
By: A.J.P. Taylor
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The fall of Metternich in the revolutions which swept Europe in 1848 heralded an era of unprecedent… read more
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9. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson
4.08
Format: 529 pages, Hardcover
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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
10. The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
By: Richard McGregor
3.78
Format: 584 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening investigation into china's communist party and its integral role in the country's ri… read more
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11. Peasants Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914
By: Eugen Weber
3.88
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
France achieved national unity much later than is commonly supposed. For a hundred years and more a… read more
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12. 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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13. Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War
By: Robert Jervis
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The U.S. government spends enormous resources each year on the gathering and analysis of intelligen… read more
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14. A History of the Arab Peoples
By: Albert Hourani
3.53
Format: 349 pages,
Encyclopedic and panoramic in its scope, this fascinating work chronicles the rich spiritual, polit… read more
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15. 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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16. 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
17. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
18. Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
By: Ronen Bergman
4.40
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF’s targeted killing programs, from… read more
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"The divide between the combat-sated generals, who once had "a knife between their teeth" but later grasped the limits of force, and the majority of the people of Israel, is the sad reality in which M…"-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
"Finally, a recruit would undergo one last test. The agency would send him home, to his own neighborhood and his own social circle, in disguise and with his alias. If he could circulate there, among t…"-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
"Indeed, in many respects the story of Israel’s intelligence community as recounted in this book has been one of a long string of impressive tactical successes, but also disastrous strategic failures.…"-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
19. The Ministry for the Future
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.88
Format: 563 pages, Hardcover
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu… read more
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"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a …"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts. But it seems to us that an ideology is a n…"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
20. The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World
By: Dorie Clark
3.71
Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition
A Wall Street Journal Bestseller Your personal goals need a long-term strategy. It's no secret th… read more
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21. China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower
By: Frank Dikötter
3.94
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In China After Mao , award-winning author Frank Dikötter delves into the history of China under the… read more
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22. Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China
By: Hal Brands
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A provocative and urgent analysis of the U.S.–China rivalry. It has become conventional wisdom that… read more
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23. The Origins of Victory: How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of Great Powers
By: Andrew F. Krepinevich
4.23
Format: 568 pages, Hardcover
How the character of war is changing and how militaries can successfully adapt to meet the challeng… read more
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24. Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle
By: Stephen D. Biddle
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In war, do mass and materiel matter most? Will states with the largest, best equipped, information-… read more
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25. The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy
By: Lawrence Freedman
4.11
Format: 584 pages, Paperback
First published 20 years ago, Lawrence Freedman's Evolution of Nuclear Strategy was immediately acc… read more
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26. The Last Warrior: Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy
By: Andrew F. Krepinevich
3.93
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Andrew Marshall is a Pentagon legend. For more than four decades he has served as Director of the O… read more
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27. Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy
By: Priscilla Clapp
3.68
Format: 415 pages, Paperback
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