2004 Selections
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The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History (Anchor)
By Philip Bobbitt
Excerpt: Africa’s Plight — The 2050 Scenario

Ending Hunger In Our Lifetime: Food Security and Globalization (Johns Hopkins University Press)
By C. Ford Runge
Excerpt: Food Security and Globalization

Beyond the Miracle: Inside the New South Africa (University Of Chicago Press)
By Allister Sparks

The Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out In The Cold (Brookings Institution Press)
By Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy
Excerpt: Siberia — Communist Megalomania?

Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars and America’s Response (Harvard University Press)
By John Shattuck
Excerpt: Global Cop — Preventing Human Rights Wars in the 21st Century

Fear’s Empire: War, Terrorism, and Democracy (W.W. Norton)
By Benjamin Barber
Excerpt: Compressing Democracy’s Timelines

Libya and the United States, Two Centuries of Strife (University of Pennsylvania Press)
By Ronald Bruce St. John
Excerpt: Libya’s Former Colonial Master

Ecological Security: An Evolutionary Perspective on Globalization. (Rowman & Littlefield)
By Dennis Pirages and Theresa DeGeest
Excerpt: Microbes in Motion

Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern (The New Press)
By John Gray
Excerpt: Geopolitics and the Limits of Growth

Greater America: A New Partnership for the Americas in the 21st Century (New York University Press)
By L. Ronald Scheman
Excerpt: The New Geopolitics of Latin America

The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the 21st Century (Alfred A. Knopf)
By Charles Kupchan
Excerpt: Washington = Rome Redux

Europe’s Promise: Why the European Way Is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age (University of California Press)
By Joseph Nye
Excerpt: Europe’s Soft Power

Asia’s New Crisis: Renewal Through Total Ethical Management (John Wiley & Sons)
By Frank-Jurgen Richter (ed.)
Excerpt: Freeing India from Feudalism

The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China’s Future (Cornell University Press)
By Elizabeth C. Economy

After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order (Columbia University Press)
By Emmanuel Todd
Excerpt: The America Vs. Arabia Battle?

The Pentagon’s New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century (G. P. Putnam’s Sons)
By Thomas P.M. Barnett
Excerpt: Whose Blood for Whose Oil?

Why Globalization Works (Yale University Press)
By Martin Wolf
Excerpt: Martin Wolf Vs. the World Bank

Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto (Broadway Books)
By Victoria Abbott Riccardi
Excerpt: An American in Kyoto

When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America and the Fears They Have Unleashed (Vintage)
By Howard Markel
Excerpt:
Germs and the Global Market

Japan Unbound: A Volatile Nation’s Quest for Pride and Purpose (Houghton Mifflin)
By John Nathan
Excerpt: How Japan Embraces China

Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East (Beacon Press)
By Rashid Khalidi
Excerpt: Resurrecting Empire

The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization (Basic Books)
By Brian Fagan
Excerpt: The Long Summer

The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror (Princeton University Press)
By Michael Ignatieff

Rational Exuberance: Silencing the Enemies of Growth and Why the Future Is Better Than You Think (HarperCollins)
By Michael Mandel
Excerpt: America’s Real Global Responsibility

Power, Terror, Peace, and War: America’s Grand Strategy in a World at Risk (Alfred A. Knopf)
By Walter Russell Mead
Excerpt: Mexico and U.S. Retirement Futures

The World’s Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nation’s (Penguin)
By Sebastian Mallaby

Trade Secrets: Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power (Yale University Press)
By Doron Ben-Atar
Excerpt: A U.S. Technology Double Standard?

Bringing the Jobs Home: How the Left Created the Outsourcing Crisis (Penguin)
By Todd Buchholz

Mullahs, Merchants, and Militants: The Economic Collapse of the Arab World (Thomas Dunne Books)
By Stephen Glain

The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy and the End of the Republic (Metropolitan Books)
By Chalmers Johnson
Excerpt: Bill Clinton — A Bigger Imperialist Than George W. Bush?

The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850 (Basic Books)
By Brian Fagan
Excerpt: Weathering the French Revolution

Europe’s Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914? (Alfred A. Knopf)
By David Fromkin
Excerpt: Europe’s Last Summer

Slipping into Paradise: Why I Live in New Zealand (Random House)
By Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Excerpt: Australia — Survival Down Under
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