2013 Selections
Globalist Bookshelf selections for 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002
Inside Out, India and China: Local Politics Go Global (Brookings Institution Press)
By William J. Antholis
Excerpt: Forget Beijing and Delhi: When Diplomacy Goes Local
The Hopkins Touch, Harry Hopkins and The Forging of The Alliance to Defeat Hitler (Oxford University Press)
By David L. Roll
Murder at the Dacha (Russian Information Services)
By Alexei Bayer
Excerpt: The Russia Putin Grew Up In
Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century (Yale University Press)
By Patrick Smith
Excerpt: Was America Ever Exceptional?
The Locust and The Bee: Predators and Creators in Capitalism’s Future (Princeton University Press)
By Geoff Mulgan
Excerpt: Time Rather Than Money
Snow-Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835 (Nan A. Talese)
By Jefferson Morley
The Dictator’s Learning Curve: Inside the Global Battle for Democracy (Random House)
By William J. Dobson
When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order (Penguin)
By Martin Jacques
Excerpt: The Changing Nature of Power in Asia
Divided Nations: Why Global Governance Is Failing and What We Can Do about It (Oxford University Press)
By Ian Goldin
Excerpt: Do We Need New Global Institutions?
Democracy in Retreat: The Revolt of the Middle Class and the Worldwide Decline of Representative Government (Yale University Press)
By Joshua Kurlantzick
Excerpt: Democracy Goes into Reverse
Inequality in America: Facts, Trends, and International Perspectives (Brookings Institution Press)
By Uri Dadush and Kemal Dervis
Excerpt: Can Income Inequality Destabilize the U.S. Economy?
The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It (Princeton University Press)
By Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig
The Thistle and the Drone: How America’s War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam (Brookings Institution Press)
By Akbar Ahmed
Excerpt: How U.S. Drones Miss Their Target
The China Wave: Rise of a Civilizational State (World Century)
By Zhang Weiwei
Excerpt: America’s Consumer Democracy Versus China’s Modern Mandarinate
Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century (Polity)
By Nicolas Berggruen and Nathan Gardels
Excerpt: America’s Consumer Democracy Versus China’s Modern Mandarinate
Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin (Brookings Institution Press)
By Fiona Hill and Clifford G. Gaddy
Excerpt: The End of Brand Putin?
The Great Convergence: Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World (PublicAffairs)
By Kishore Mahbubani
Excerpt: Why the United Nations Is Kept Weak
That Should Still Be Us: How Thomas Friedman’s Flat World Myths Are Keeping Us Flat on Our Backs (John Wiley & Sons)
By Martin Sieff
India Grows at Night: A Liberal Case for a Strong State (Penguin)
By Gurcharan Das
Excerpt: India Grows at Night
Peaceful War: How the Chinese Dream and the American Destiny Create a New Pacific World Order (UPA)
By Patrick Mendis
Excerpt: Trump and America’s China Problem
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