The Globalist’s Top Books of 2012

Excerpt: How has the British and U.S. to desire to control Iraqi oil shaped the country’s recent history?

Excerpt: Why have Americans been so tolerant of the rising gulf between rich and poor?

Excerpt: Why has the American Dream slipped out of the reach of more and more of the middle class?

Excerpt: How can transparency help end the fleecing of resource-rich countries by their corrupt leaders?

Excerpt: Why do economists — and the policymakers who heed their advice — need to reconsider the conventional wisdoms of their profession?

Excerpt: What can be done to help those on the lower rungs of the global economic ladder cope with rising food prices?

Excerpt: What policies should governments focus on to ensure that future generations live at least well as the current generation?

Excerpt: What is “patriotic” about cutting taxes for the rich? And how is the middle class “empowered” by piling up mountains of debt?

Excerpt: Will water make Turkey a greater power in the Arab Middle East in the 21st century than it was in the 20th?

Excerpt: How did Hitler’s relationship with a young American woman change history in the 20th century?

Excerpt: Can the United States muster the will to step into the 21st century world of energy?

Excerpt: Mitt Romney badly lost the women’s vote. But are Republicans the only party with a “woman problem?”

Excerpt: Why would USAID not get behind an effort to turn Afghan farmers from poppy to cotton?

Excerpt: Western dominance will wane in the 21st century, but what will take its place?

Excerpt: How did mid-century concerns about economic fairness give way to today’s crisis-prone, Darwinian capitalism?