Diplomacy

Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? And what can it teach us about our current crisis? Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns, Germs and Steel is a ground-breaking and humane work of popular science that can provide expert insight into our modern world. 'The most absorbing account on offer of the emergence of a world divided between have and have-nots... Never before put together so coherently, with such a combination of expertise, charm and compassion' The Times

"One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades." ?John Gray, New York Times Book ReviewHailed as "a magisterial critique of topdown social planning" by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail?sometimes catastr...

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The definitive account of the American military's tragic experience in Iraq from a Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter. Thomas E. Ricks, senior Pentagon correspondent for the Washington Post, puts forth in Fiasco a masterful reckoning with the planning & execution of the American military invasion & occupation of Iraq, now with a preface on recent deve...

Previously published as Naked Diplomacy.Who will be in power in the 21st century Governments Big business Internet titans And how do we influence the futureDigital Technology, is changing power at a faster rate than any time in history. Distrust is fuelling political uncertainty; inequality is fuelling economic uncertainty; and massive technolo...

The Best and the Brightest is David Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy. Using portraits of America's flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons magnificently with the most important abiding question of our country's recent history: Why did Amer...

American diplomacy is under siege. Offices across the State Department sit empty, while abroad the militaryindustrial complex has assumed the work once undertaken by peacemakers. We?re becoming a nation that shoots first and asks questions later.In an astonishing account ranging from Washington, D.C., to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and North Korea in t...