2018 Best Foreign Affairs Books
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- Best books list from Foreign Affairs Journal
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- landarcht: Despite his efforts as both general and president to defend the newly freed slaves of the American South after the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant lies almost forgotten in his grave. Chernow has undertaken to remedy this historical injustice. The result is a sympathetic but clear-eyed biography that will be the starting point for all future studies of this enigmatic man.
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von Steven Levitsky
1,360 Mitglieder
39 Rezensionen
4.2
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Hinzugefügt 2019-01-03, 12:32 PM
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von Masha Gessen
806 Mitglieder
18 Rezensionen
4.2
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Hinzugefügt 2019-01-03, 12:31 PM
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von Timothy Snyder
788 Mitglieder
18 Rezensionen
½ 4.3
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Hinzugefügt 2019-01-03, 12:32 PM
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von Jenny Erpenbeck
720 Mitglieder
49 Rezensionen
4.1
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Hinzugefügt 2019-01-03, 12:36 PM
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von Stephen Kotkin
383 Mitglieder
4 Rezensionen
½ 4.6
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Hinzugefügt 2019-01-03, 12:38 PM
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- landarcht: This is the second volume of Kotkin’s massive biographical trilogy. In exquisite detail, it covers the critical years of Stalinism, from the decision to storm the country by collectivizing agriculture and imposing forced-draft industrialization, through the purges of the Great Terror, to the outbreak of World War II.
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von Daniel Ellsberg
383 Mitglieder
8 Rezensionen
4.2
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- landarcht: This candid and chilling memoir describes how Ellsberg came to recognize that the U.S. military’s approach to preparing for nuclear war was terrifyingly casual. If war came, the United States was ready to obliterate not only the Soviet Union but also China—a plan that would have immediately produced 275 million fatalities and then led to another 50 million, owing to the effects of radiation.
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von Bruce Henderson
328 Mitglieder
8 Rezensionen
½ 4.4
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- landarcht: During World War II, almost 2,000 young Jewish men who had escaped to the United States from Austria and Nazi Germany joined the U.S. military, where their detailed knowledge of German military tactics and culture played a vital role as U.S. forces fought to liberate Europe. Henderson tells this tale skillfully, through the stories of eight young men.
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von P. W. Singer
274 Mitglieder
5 Rezensionen
3.8
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Hinzugefügt 2019-01-03, 12:33 PM
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- landarcht: Many books have charted the use and misuse of social media, but this is one of the most comprehensive and up to date. Singer and Brooking explain not only how this new information environment developed but also why our attitudes and behaviors are so susceptible to manipulation.
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von Benn Steil
195 Mitglieder
2 Rezensionen
4.1
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Hinzugefügt 2019-01-03, 12:31 PM
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- landarcht: In his well-crafted book, Steil argues that although the Marshall Plan was a strategic success, it also contributed mightily to the evolving Cold War. He shows that key U.S. policymakers understood that the initiative would trigger a Soviet clampdown in Eastern Europe and solidify the division of the continent—and went ahead with it anyway.
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von David Goodhart
144 Mitglieder
3 Rezensionen
½ 3.5
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Hinzugefügt 2019-01-03, 12:35 PM
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102 Mitglieder
3.8
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Hinzugefügt 2019-01-03, 12:32 PM
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von Sean Wilentz
96 Mitglieder
½ 4.3
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Hinzugefügt 2019-01-03, 12:35 PM
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von Bruno Macaes
96 Mitglieder
1 Rezension
½ 3.5
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Hinzugefügt 2019-01-03, 12:37 PM
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von Salena Zito
86 Mitglieder
1 Rezension
½ 3.5
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Hinzugefügt 2019-01-03, 12:34 PM
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von Varun Sivaram
55 Mitglieder
1 Rezension
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Hinzugefügt 2019-01-03, 12:32 PM
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von A. James McAdams
55 Mitglieder
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Hinzugefügt 2019-01-03, 12:38 PM
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- landarcht: In 1985, McAdams notes, 38 percent of the world’s population lived under communist regimes, and some 107 communist parties operated worldwide, with a total membership of 82 million people. McAdams tells the story of how this movement grew out of the crucible of nineteenth-century Europe, flourished in the Soviet Union, and then spread to China, Cuba, and beyond.
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von Ashoka Mody
48 Mitglieder
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Hinzugefügt 2019-01-03, 12:35 PM
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von Reid Wilson
31 Mitglieder
1 Rezension
4
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Hinzugefügt 2019-01-03, 12:41 PM
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von Aisha Ahmad
18 Mitglieder
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Hinzugefügt 2019-01-03, 12:39 PM
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- landarcht: In this one-of-a-kind book, Ahmad offers a simple and compelling hypothesis regarding the relationship between business elites and jihadists in Afghanistan and Somalia: anarchy is bad for business, so traders embrace Islam in order to create a black-market economy based on religious trust.
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von Philip Brenner
15 Mitglieder
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Hinzugefügt 2019-01-03, 12:37 PM
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von Beng-Huat Chua
12 Mitglieder
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Hinzugefügt 2019-01-03, 12:40 PM
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von Martyn Frampton
9 Mitglieder
Bewertung 1
Hinzugefügt 2019-01-03, 12:39 PM
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von Tom D. Dillehay
5 Mitglieder
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Hinzugefügt 2019-01-03, 12:36 PM