Globalist Bookshelf

The Shackled Continent: Power, Corruption, and African Lives

By Robert Guest

Excerpt: Cameroon: The Shackled Continent

Civilization and Its Enemies: The Next Stage of History

By Lee Harris

Excerpt: Civilization and Its Enemies

A Thousand Sighs, A Thousand Revolts: Journeys in Kurdistan

By Christiane Bird

Excerpt: Kurds: Fighting for Civil Rights

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

By Suketu Mehta

Excerpt: Moving Back to Bombay

The Competition Solution: The Bipartisan Secret behind American Prosperity

By Paul London

Excerpt: America’s Competitive Powers — At Long Last

Beyond the Age of Innocence: Rebuilding Trust Between America and the World

By Kishore Mahbubani

Excerpt: Dealing with the Muslim World: Five Western Mistakes

Children at War

By Peter W. Singer

Excerpt: Children at War: The Lost Generation

Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures

By Lester Brown

Excerpt: World Population — Stopping at Seven Billion?

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

By Jack Weatherford

Excerpt: Europe’s Fear of Asia

America the Vulnerable: How Our Government Is Failing to Protect Us from Terrorism

By Stephen Flynn

Excerpt: America the Vulnerable

Global Chicago

By Charles Madigan (ed.)

Excerpt: Global Chicago

World Out of Balance: Navigating Global Risks to Seize Competitive Advantage

By Paul A. Laudicina

Excerpt: World Out of Balance — Three Scenarios for 2015

Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century

By Mark Leonard

Excerpt: The Project for a New European Century

Building the Next American Century: The Past and Future of American Economic Competitiveness

By Kent H. Hughes

Excerpt: The Past and Future of U.S. Competitiveness

The Opportunity: America’s Moment to Alter History’s Course

By Richard N. Haass

Excerpt: Getting 21st Century U.S. Foreign Policy Right

The Next Global Stage: Challenges and Opportunities in Our Borderless World

By Kenichi Ohmae

Excerpt: Beyond the Nation State

The European Dream: How Europe’s Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream

By Jeremy Rifkin

Excerpt: An American Looks at Europe

The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy

By Pietra Rivoli

Excerpt: Tanzania: A Second-Hand Economy?

Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East

By Leon Hadar

Excerpt: Saddam, Stalin, Hitler and History

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time

By Jeffrey D. Sachs

Excerpt: Development Economics as Clinical Economics

In Praise of Empires: Globalization and Order

By Deepak Lal

Excerpt: The Greens Vs. India and China

Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East

By Clyde Prestowitz

Excerpt: China and the Comfortable Road to Ruin

Western Muslims and the Future of Islam

By Tariq Ramadan

Excerpt: Western Muslims: Isolation or Integration?

Coffee: A Dark History

By Anthony Wild

Excerpt: Coffee: Good to the Last Drop?

The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls and Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient

By Sheridan Prasso

Excerpt: On the Campaign Trail in the Philippines

Ciao Asmara: A Classic Account of Contemporary Africa

By Justin Hill

Excerpt: Dateline Eritrea: Ciao Asmara

Worlds of Power: Religious Thought and Political Practice in Africa

By Stephen Ellis and Gerrie ter Haar

Excerpt: Africa’s Traditions and Religious Revival

A Death in Brazil: A Book Of Omissions

By Peter Robb

Excerpt: Life in Recife, Northeast Brazil

The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent

By Richard Florida

Excerpt: The Greatest Competitive Threat of Our Time

Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance through 20th-Century Europe

By Victoria de Grazia

Excerpt: U.S. Public Diplomacy After World War II

I is for Infidel: From Holy War to Holy Terror: 18 Years Inside Afghanistan

By Kathy Gannon

Excerpt: Afghanistan, Yesterday’s War

Thailand Confidential

By Jerry Hopkins

Excerpt: Chili Peppers and Globalization

Apple’s America: The Discriminating Traveler’s Guide

By R.W. Apple, Jr

Excerpt: Living the High and Lows in Las Vegas

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

By Jared Diamond

Excerpt: Haiti and the Dominican Republic: One Island, Two Worlds

Istanbul: Memories and the City

By Orhan Pamuk

Excerpt: Exploring the Bosphorus

Spice: The History of a Temptation

By Jack Turner

Excerpt: India and the Great Spice Race

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

By Tony Judt

Excerpt: Europe After World War II: Rising from the House of the Dead

In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran

By Christopher de Bellaigue

Excerpt: Iran’s Dark Side

Liberty for Latin America: How to Undo Five Hundred Years for State Oppression

By Alvaro Vargas Llosa

Excerpt: Justice in Latin America: The Cinderella of Reform

Give Us Your Best and Brightest: The Global Hunt for Talent and Its Impact on the Developing World

By Devesh Kapur and John McHale

Excerpt: Crime and Migration

Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World

By Hugh Pope

Excerpt: The Silk Road — A Romantic Deception?

Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Have Fueled the Climate Crisis

By Ross Gelbspan

Excerpt: Climate Change as Number One?

The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth

By Benjamin M. Friedman

Excerpt: Thailand, Ghana and the Military “Coup Trap”

Myths of Free Trade: Why American Trade Policy Has Failed

By Sherrod Brown

Excerpt: Adam Smith’s Soft Side

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

By John Perkins

Excerpt: Squeezing Ecuador