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Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?
Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?
by Alan Weisman
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A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us. In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if... (read more)

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No One's World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn (Council on Foreign Relations)
No One's World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn (Council on Foreign Relations)
by Charles A. Kupchan
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The world is on the cusp of a global turn. Between 1500 and 1800, the West sprinted ahead of other centers of power in Asia and the Middle East. Europe and the United States have dominated the world since. But today the West's preeminence is slipping... (read more)

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Treasury's War: The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare
Treasury's War: The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare
by Juan C. Zarate
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For more than a decade, America has been waging a new kind of war against the financial networks of rogue regimes, proliferators, terrorist groups, and criminal syndicates. Juan Zarate, a chief architect of modern financial warfare and a former senior... (read more)

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The China Choice: Why We Should Share Power
The China Choice: Why We Should Share Power
by Hugh White
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China is rising. But how should the West -- and the United States in particular -- respond? This could be the key geopolitical question of the twenty-first century, according to strategic expert Hugh White, with huge implications for the future security... (read more)

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Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power
Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power
by Zbigniew Brzezinski
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By 1991, following the disintegration first of the Soviet bloc and then of the Soviet Union itself, the United States was left standing tall as the only global super-power. The 21st century seemed destined to be yet another American century. But that... (read more)

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Winner Take All (12 Edition)
Winner Take All (12 Edition)
by Dambisa Moyo
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Hardly a day passes when newspaper headlines or media commentators dont scream warnings of impending doom—shortages of arable land, clashes over water, and political Armageddon as global demand for fossil fuels far outstrips supply—but only one... (read more)

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The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us about Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us about Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
by Robert D. Kaplan
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In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts, offers a revelatory new prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the... (read more)

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Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
by Chrystia Freeland
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A groundbreaking examination of wealth disparity, income inequality, and the new global elite There has always been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but recently what it means to be rich has changed dramatically. Forget the 1 percent—... (read more)

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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
by Daron Acemoglu
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The Oil Road: Journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London
The Oil Road: Journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London
by James Marriott
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From Caspian drilling rigs and Caucasus mountain villages to Mediterranean fishing communities and European capitals, this is a journey through the heart of our oil-obsessed society. Blending travel writing and investigative journalism, it charts a... (read more)

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The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
by Nina Munk
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A powerful portrayal of Jeffrey Sachs's ambitious quest to end global poverty       "The poor you will always have with you," to cite the Gospel of Matthew 26:11. Jeffrey Sachs—celebrated economist, special advisor to the... (read more)

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The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations
The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations
by Michael L Ross
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"The Oil Curse is the best and most thorough examination that we have of the causes and consequences of oil wealth for poorly governed states. Oil revenues are massive, opaque, and volatile; they destroy the relationship between a state and its own... (read more)

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Contemporary States of Emergency: The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions
Contemporary States of Emergency: The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions
by Didier (edt) Fassin
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From natural disaster areas to zones of political conflict around the world, a new logic of intervention combines military action and humanitarian aid, conflates moral imperatives and political arguments, and confuses the concepts of legitimacy and... (read more)

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Interventions: A Life in War and Peace
Interventions: A Life in War and Peace
by Kofi Annan
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A and#147;candid, courageous, and unsparing memoirand#8221; (The New York Review of Books) of postand#150;Cold War politics and global statecraft Written with eloquence and unprecedented candor, Interventions is the story of Kofi Annanand#8217;s... (read more)

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The Empire Trap: The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893-2013
The Empire Trap: The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893-2013
by Noel Maurer
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"How did the United States come to have an 'informal empire' in the late nineteenth century, and how did it get out of the empire business at the end of the twentieth? How and why did threats and gunboats get replaced by courts and international... (read more)

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