2005 Selections
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The Shackled Continent: Power, Corruption, and African Lives (Smithsonian Books)
By Robert Guest
Excerpt: Cameroon: The Shackled Continent
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Civilization and Its Enemies: The Next Stage of History (Simon & Schuster)
By Lee Harris
Excerpt: Civilization and Its Enemies
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A Thousand Sighs, A Thousand Revolts: Journeys in Kurdistan (Random House)
By Christiane Bird
Excerpt: Kurds: Fighting for Civil Rights
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The Competition Solution: The Bipartisan Secret behind American Prosperity (AEI Press)
By Paul London
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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
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Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures (Earth Policy Institute)
By Lester Brown
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Crown Business)
By Jack Weatherford
Excerpt: Europe’s Fear of Asia
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America the Vulnerable: How Our Government Is Failing to Protect Us from Terrorism (Harper Perennial)
By Stephen Flynn
Excerpt: America the Vulnerable
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World Out of Balance: Navigating Global Risks to Seize Competitive Advantage (McGraw-Hill)
By Paul A. Laudicina
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Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century (PublicAffairs)
By Mark Leonard
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Building the Next American Century: The Past and Future of American Economic Competitiveness (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)
By Kent H. Hughes
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The Opportunity: America’s Moment to Alter History’s Course (PublicAffairs)
By Richard N. Haass
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The Next Global Stage: Challenges and Opportunities in Our Borderless World (Wharton School Publishing)
By Kenichi Ohmae
Excerpt: Beyond the Nation State
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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
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The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy (John Wiley & Sons)
By Pietra Rivoli
Excerpt: Tanzania: A Second-Hand Economy?
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Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East (St. Martin’s)
By Leon Hadar
Excerpt: Saddam, Stalin, Hitler and History
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The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Penguin)
By Jeffrey D. Sachs
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In Praise of Empires: Globalization and Order (Palgrave Macmillan)
By Deepak Lal
Excerpt: The Greens Vs. India and China
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Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East (Basic Books)
By Clyde Prestowitz
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Western Muslims and the Future of Islam (Oxford University Press)
By Tariq Ramadan
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The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls and Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient (PublicAffairs)
By Sheridan Prasso
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Ciao Asmara: A Classic Account of Contemporary Africa (Little, Brown)
By Justin Hill
Excerpt: Dateline Eritrea: Ciao Asmara
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Worlds of Power: Religious Thought and Political Practice in Africa (Oxford University Press)
By Stephen Ellis and Gerrie ter Haar
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A Death in Brazil: A Book Of Omissions (Jack Macrae Books)
By Peter Robb
Excerpt: Life in Recife, Northeast Brazil
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The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent (HarperBusiness)
By Richard Florida
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Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance through 20th-Century Europe (Belknap Press)
By Victoria de Grazia
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I is for Infidel: From Holy War to Holy Terror: 18 Years Inside Afghanistan (PublicAffairs)
By Kathy Gannon
Excerpt: Afghanistan, Yesterday’s War
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Apple’s America: The Discriminating Traveler’s Guide (North Point Press)
By R.W. Apple, Jr
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Penguin)
By Jared Diamond
Excerpt: Haiti and the Dominican Republic: One Island, Two Worlds
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Penguin)
By Tony Judt
Excerpt: Europe After World War II: Rising from the House of the Dead
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In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran (Harper)
By Christopher de Bellaigue
Excerpt: Iran’s Dark Side
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Liberty for Latin America: How to Undo Five Hundred Years for State Oppression (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux)
By Alvaro Vargas Llosa
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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
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Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World (Overlook Press)
By Hugh Pope
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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?
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The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth (Alfred A. Knopf)
By Benjamin M. Friedman
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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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