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Foreign Affairs – Best Books of the Year
96 recognized books, each paired with conversations featuring the author.
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
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The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century
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World in Danger: Germany and Europe in an Uncertain Time
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African Europeans: An Untold History
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Stars with Stripes: The Essential Partnership between the European Union and the United States
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MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman
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The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un
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An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination
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The Hundred Year War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917 – 2017
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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The Muslim Brotherhood and the West: A History of Enmity and Engagement
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Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
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To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture
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It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump
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A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955
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Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars
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Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
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The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise
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Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology
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Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
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History of South Africa: From 1902 to the Present
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Lincoln and the Fight for Peace
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The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
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The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler
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The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minority
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Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas
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You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War
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Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
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An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent
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American Exceptionalism: A New History of an Old Idea
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Bread and Freedom: Egypt’s Revolutionary Situation
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Don’t Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles — and All of Us
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Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America
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Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
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Infiltrating Society: The Thai Military’s Internal Security Affairs
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Kashmir at the Crossroads: Inside a 21st-Century Conflict
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Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century
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Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin’s Capital
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Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution
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Salafism and Political Order in Africa
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The American War in Afghanistan: A History
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The Digital Silk Road: China’s Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future
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The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World
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The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917
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The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR
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The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World
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Winning and Losing the Nuclear Peace: The Rise, Demise, and Revival of Arms Control
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A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order
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Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall
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China, the UN, and Human Protection: Beliefs, Power, Image
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China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism
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Constraining Dictatorship: From Personalized Rule to Institutionalized Regimes
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Divided Armies: Inequality and Battlefield Performance in Modern War
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Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself from the World
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Losing the Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East
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Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women
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Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa
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Substate Dictatorship: Networks, Loyalty, and Institutional Change in the Soviet Union
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The Art of Political Control in China
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The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan
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The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World
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The Koreas: The Birth of Two Nations Divided
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The Light that Failed: Why the West is Losing the Fight for Democracy
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The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History
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They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate
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Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy
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Woodrow Wilson and the Reimagining of Eastern Europe
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Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self – Determination
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Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement
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Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World
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Hybrid Actors: Armed Group and State Fragmentation in the Middle East
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Jihad & Co.: Black Markets and Islamist Power
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Migration in the Time of Revolution: China, Indonesia, and the Cold War
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Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation Is Arming Tomorrow’s Terrorists
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
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The Economist’s Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
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The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965 – 1966
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We’re Still Here: Pain and Politics in the Heart of America
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What Was Liberalism? The Past, Present, and Promise of a Noble Idea
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Without the Banya We Would Perish: A History of the Russian Bathhouse
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Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of a Nazi Race Law
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The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
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Vanguard of the Revolution: The Global Idea of the Communist Party
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How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
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Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929 – 1941
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