The Globalist’s Top Books of 2015

1. Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet by Gernot Wagner and Martin L. Weitzman (Princeton University Press, 2015)

Excerpt:
Climate Shock: Will We Persist in Collective and Willful Blindness?The moral dilemma on climate – Errors of commission versus errors of omission.

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2. Brexit: How Britain Will Leave Europe
by Denis MacShane (I. B. Tauris, March 2015)

Excerpt:
Brexit Looming? Will Britain Leave the EU?
It would be a geo-economic-political moment without parallel in the democratic world since 1945.

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3. Raw Deal: How the “Uber Economy” and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers by Steven Hill (St. Martin’s Press, October 20, 2015)

Excerpt:
Rethinking the Uber Vs. Taxi Battle
How can Uber be part of the solution instead of being embroiled in controversy?

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4. Reluctant Meister: How Germany’s Past Is Shaping Its European Future by Stephen Green (Haus Publishing, 2014)

Excerpt:
Europe’s Path and the Great Global Convergence
Why has Europe retreated from self-defined center of the world to being the corner of a great landmass?

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5. Crouching Tiger: What China’s Militarism Means for the World by Peter Navarro (Prometheus Books, November 3, 2015)

Excerpt:
How China and India May Come to Blows
Why could there be war between these two most populous countries in the world?

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6. The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy by Lester R. Brown (W. W. Norton & Company, April 2015)

Excerpt:
The Accelerating Transition Away from Fossil Fuels
Will the energy transition proceed fast enough for the world to avoid catastrophic climate change?

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7. Germany, Russia and the Rise of Geo-Economics by Stephen F. Szabo (Bloomsbury Publishing, December 18, 2014)

Excerpt:
Germany=Geoeconomics, US=Geopolitics?
Mercury or Mars? What separates Germany and the United States?

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8. The World and U2: One Band’s Remaking of Global Activism by Alan McPherson (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, June 2015)

Excerpt:
U2’s Activism: From Innocence to Experience
How an Irish rock band turned raw activism into a refined lobby for good.

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9. Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution By Mona Eltahawy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2015)

Excerpt:
A Voice Against Violence
It is time to dismantle the political and economic system that treats half of humanity like children.

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10. Minute Zero by Todd Moss (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, September 2015)

Excerpt:
Minute Zero: Prologue
A sneak peak into Todd Moss’s latest thriller in the Judd Ryker series about a professor inside the State Department’s Crisis Reaction Unit.