2005 Selections
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The Shackled Continent: Power, Corruption, and African Lives (Smithsonian Books)
By Robert Guest
Excerpt: Cameroon: The Shackled Continent

Civilization and Its Enemies: The Next Stage of History (Simon & Schuster)
By Lee Harris
Excerpt: Civilization and Its Enemies

A Thousand Sighs, A Thousand Revolts: Journeys in Kurdistan (Random House)
By Christiane Bird
Excerpt: Kurds: Fighting for Civil Rights

The Competition Solution: The Bipartisan Secret behind American Prosperity (AEI Press)
By Paul London

Beyond the Age of Innocence: Rebuilding Trust Between America and the World (PublicAffairs)
By Kishore Mahbubani
Excerpt: Dealing with the Muslim World: Five Western Mistakes

Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures (Earth Policy Institute)
By Lester Brown

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Crown Business)
By Jack Weatherford
Excerpt: Europe’s Fear of Asia

America the Vulnerable: How Our Government Is Failing to Protect Us from Terrorism (Harper Perennial)
By Stephen Flynn
Excerpt: America the Vulnerable

World Out of Balance: Navigating Global Risks to Seize Competitive Advantage (McGraw-Hill)
By Paul A. Laudicina

Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century (PublicAffairs)
By Mark Leonard

Building the Next American Century: The Past and Future of American Economic Competitiveness (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)
By Kent H. Hughes

The Opportunity: America’s Moment to Alter History’s Course (PublicAffairs)
By Richard N. Haass

The Next Global Stage: Challenges and Opportunities in Our Borderless World (Wharton School Publishing)
By Kenichi Ohmae
Excerpt: Beyond the Nation State

The European Dream: How Europe’s Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream (Penguin)
By Jeremy Rifkin
Excerpt: An American Looks at Europe

The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy (John Wiley & Sons)
By Pietra Rivoli
Excerpt: Tanzania: A Second-Hand Economy?

Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East (St. Martin’s)
By Leon Hadar
Excerpt: Saddam, Stalin, Hitler and History

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Penguin)
By Jeffrey D. Sachs

In Praise of Empires: Globalization and Order (Palgrave Macmillan)
By Deepak Lal
Excerpt: The Greens Vs. India and China

Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East (Basic Books)
By Clyde Prestowitz

Western Muslims and the Future of Islam (Oxford University Press)
By Tariq Ramadan

The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls and Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient (PublicAffairs)
By Sheridan Prasso

Ciao Asmara: A Classic Account of Contemporary Africa (Little, Brown)
By Justin Hill
Excerpt: Dateline Eritrea: Ciao Asmara

Worlds of Power: Religious Thought and Political Practice in Africa (Oxford University Press)
By Stephen Ellis and Gerrie ter Haar

A Death in Brazil: A Book Of Omissions (Jack Macrae Books)
By Peter Robb
Excerpt: Life in Recife, Northeast Brazil

The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent (HarperBusiness)
By Richard Florida

Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance through 20th-Century Europe (Belknap Press)
By Victoria de Grazia

I is for Infidel: From Holy War to Holy Terror: 18 Years Inside Afghanistan (PublicAffairs)
By Kathy Gannon
Excerpt: Afghanistan, Yesterday’s War

Apple’s America: The Discriminating Traveler’s Guide (North Point Press)
By R.W. Apple, Jr

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Penguin)
By Jared Diamond
Excerpt: Haiti and the Dominican Republic: One Island, Two Worlds

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Penguin)
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 (Harper)
By Christopher de Bellaigue
Excerpt: Iran’s Dark Side

Liberty for Latin America: How to Undo Five Hundred Years for State Oppression (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux)
By Alvaro Vargas Llosa

Give Us Your Best and Brightest: The Global Hunt for Talent and Its Impact on the Developing World (Center for Global Development)
By Devesh Kapur and John McHale
Excerpt: Crime and Migration

Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World (Overlook Press)
By Hugh Pope

Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Have Fueled the Climate Crisis (Basic Books)
By Ross Gelbspan
Excerpt: Climate Change as Number One?

The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth (Alfred A. Knopf)
By Benjamin M. Friedman

Myths of Free Trade: Why American Trade Policy Has Failed (The New Press)
By Sherrod Brown
Excerpt: Adam Smith’s Soft Side
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