International Relations

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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In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the "great transformation" of the Industrial Revolution. His analysis explains not only the deficiencies of the selfregulating market, but the potentially dire social consequences of untempered market capitalism. New i...

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...

The update of this classic treatise on the behavior of great powers takes a penetrating look at the question likely to dominate international relations in the twenty-first century: Can China rise peacefully To John J. Mearsheimer, great power politics are tragic because the anarchy of the international system requires states to seek dominance at o...