These are some of the best books of 2020 as selected by Foreign Affairs Magazine.
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Editor’s Pick
The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the Twenty-First Century
by Thant Myint – U
The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
by Binyamin Appelbaum
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
by Martha S. Jones
Political and Legal
Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self – Determination
by Adom Getachew
The Light That Failed: Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy
by Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
by Daron Acemoghu and James A. Robinson
Economic | Social | Environmental
Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World
by Branko Milanovic
Don’t Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles – and All of Us
by Rana Foroohar
Military | Scientific | Technological
The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History
by Alexander Mikaberidze
Divided Armies: Inequality and Battlefield Performance in Modern War
by Jason Lyall
Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: War Through the Lives of Women
by Christina Lamb
The United States
We’re Still Here: Pain and Politics in the Heart of America
by Jennifer M. Silva
It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump
by Stuart Stevens
Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself From the World
by Charles A. Kupchan
Western Europe
The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World
by Anu Bradford
Stars With Stripes: The Essential Partnership Between the European Union and the United States
by Anthony Luzzatto Gardner
World in Danger: Germany and Europe in an Uncertain Time
by Wolfgang Ischinger
Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics
To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture
by Eleonory Gilburd
Woodrow Wilson and the Reimagining of Eastern Europe
by Larry Wolff
Agent Sonya: Moscow’s Most Daring Wartime Spy
by Ben Macintyre
Middle East
The Hundred Year’s War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917 – 2017
by Rashid Khalidi
MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman
by Ben Hubbard
Hybrid Actors: Armed Groups and State Fragmentation in the Middle East
by Thanassis Cambanis, Dina Esfandiary, Sima Ghaddar, Michael Wahid Hanna, Aron Lund, and Renad Mansour
Asia and Pacific
Migration in the Time of Revolution: China, Indonesia, and the Cold War
By Taomo Zhou
The Art of Political Control in China
by Daniel C. Mattingly
The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan
by Owen Bennet – Jones
Africa
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