The Revenge of Geography: What the Ma...
Robert D. KaplanIn 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 coun...
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That...
Tim MarshallIn this New York Times bestseller, updated for 2016, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of crucial regions to explain the geo-political strategies of the world powers—“fans of geography, history, and politics (and maps) wil...
Because We Say So (City Lights Open M...
Noam Chomsky"Chomsky is a global phenomenon . . . perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet."—New York Times Book Review"Unwavering political contrarian Noam Chomsky smart-bombs the US military's global I...
The China Challenge: Shaping the Choi...
Thomas J. Christensen"A standout . . . a balanced, informative, and highly intelligent guide to dealing with China."―Fareed ZakariaMany see China as a rival superpower to the United States and imagine the country's rise to be a threat to U.S. ...
Geopolitics: A Very Short Introductio...
Klaus DoddsGeopolitics is a slippery term. From great power politics and speculation about resource scrambles, to everyday encounters and objects such as smart phones, it affects citizens, corporations, international bodies, social movements, an...
Brexit: What the Hell Happens Now?: 2...
Ian DuntThe only book you need on Britain's biggest political issue. Find out how Brexit will affect Britain - and what will happen if the UK crashes out of the EU without a deal.Based on interviews with experts in the law, trade and politics...
What if the storm of a lifetime was just a few days over the horizon? How would you prepare if you knew an imminent disaster was rapidly approaching? Would you know what steps to take if you suddenly realized that a looming economi...
The Storm Before the Calm: America's ...
George Friedman*One of Bloomberg's Best Books of the Year* The master geopolitical forecaster and New York Timesbestselling author of The Next 100 Years focuses on the United States, predicting how the 2020s will bring dramatic upheaval and resha...
Confidante of 'Tyrants': The Story of...
Eva GolingerWhen US lawyer Eva Golinger first spent some time in Venezuela uncovering her ancestral roots, she little realized how the country was going to change her life. Within a few years she had become an enthusiast for the Bolivarian Revolu...
Wake Up White People, You're Getting ...
Jim a. HillEven after being decimated by the financial crisis, the middle class is still slowly but surely having the economic life strangled out of it. In August 2013, only forty-four percent of Americans had full-time jobs, and that was down...
The Geographical Pivot of History
Halford John Mackinder“The ideas which go to form a nation, as opposed to a mere crowd of human animals have usually been accepted under the pressure of a common tribulation, and under a common necessity of resistance to external force.” &mdash...
The Age of Walls: How Barriers Betwee...
Tim MarshallTim Marshall, the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography, offers "a readable primer to many of the biggest problems facing the world" (Daily Express, UK) by examining the borders, walls, and boundaries t...
Xi Jinping has transformed China at home and abroad with a speed and aggression that few foresaw when he came to power in 2012. Finally, he is meeting resistance, both at home among disgruntled officials and disillusioned technocrats,...
Though pillage, profit, and plunder have been a mainstay of war since pre-colonial times, there is little contemporary focus on the role of finance and economics in today's "Drug Wars"—despite the fact that they boost US b...
The Mr. X Interviews: Volume 1: World...
Tyler TichelaarHow is the US' relationship with the world changing after the 2008 financial crisis? Why is that relationship changing? What will those changes potentially mean for the US and global economies?We rarely hear such topics discussed in t...
House of Trump, House of Putin: The U...
Craig UngerTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"The story Unger weaves with those earlier accounts and his original reporting is fresh, illuminating and more alarming than the intelligence channel described in the Steele dossier."—The Wash...
Myanmar's Enemy Within: Buddhist Viol...
Francis WadeIn 2017, Myanmar’s military launched a campaign of violence against the Rohingya minority that UN experts later said amounted to a genocide. More than seven hundred thousand civilians fled to Bangladesh in what became the most conce...