Geopolitics
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Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by:
Tim Marshall
4.19 avg rating β 110,356 ratings 2. 
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by:
Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating β 445,042 ratings 
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Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
by:
Adam Tooze
4.28 avg rating β 4,042 ratings 
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The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
by:
Daniel Yergin
4.14 avg rating β 5,096 ratings 
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Understanding China: Learning from China's Past, Present, and Future
by:
Stefan Piech
3.92 avg rating β 64 ratings 10. 
This Brave New World: India, China, and the United States
by:
Anja Manuel
3.93 avg rating β 283 ratings 
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Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
by:
Noam Chomsky
3.97 avg rating β 13,937 ratings 13. 
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
by:
Timothy Snyder
4.27 avg rating β 89,921 ratings 14. 
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
by:
Francis Fukuyama
4.35 avg rating β 4,811 ratings 15. 
Easternization: Asia's Rise and America's Decline From Obama to Trump and Beyond
by:
Gideon Rachman
4.23 avg rating β 793 ratings 16. 
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
by:
Naomi Klein
4.29 avg rating β 51,935 ratings 17. 
Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World
by:
Graham Allison
4.27 avg rating β 3,263 ratings 18. 
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemicβand How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by:
Steven Johnson
3.89 avg rating β 55,256 ratings 19. 
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
by:
Toby Green
4.03 avg rating β 395 ratings 
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by:
Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating β 73,872 ratings 22. 
The Next Front: Southeast Asia and the Road to Global Peace with Islam 3.83 avg rating β 24 ratings
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No One Man Should Have All That Power: How Rasputins Manipulate the World
by:
Amos Barshad
3.66 avg rating β 182 ratings 24. 
Destined For War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?
by:
Graham Allison
4.20 avg rating β 7,032 ratings 
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Small Wars, Faraway Places: Global Insurrection and the Making of the Modern World, 1945-1965
by:
Michael Burleigh
3.94 avg rating β 394 ratings 28. 
Future Arctic: Field Notes from a World on the Edge
by:
Edward Struzik
4.03 avg rating β 65 ratings 29. 
The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom (Columbia Journalism Review Books)
by:
Joel Simon
3.66 avg rating β 35 ratings 
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by:
Dava Sobel
3.99 avg rating β 75,027 ratings 
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Meltdown in Tibet: China's Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia
by:
Michael Buckley
4.01 avg rating β 73 ratings 35. 
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism 4.11 avg rating β 15,875 ratings
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A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
by:
Raj Patel
3.83 avg rating β 1,556 ratings 37. 
The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World
by:
Oona A. Hathaway
4.30 avg rating β 601 ratings 38. 
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
by:
Ronan Farrow
4.15 avg rating β 8,499 ratings 39. 
Connecting the Drops: A Citizens' Guide to Protecting Water Resources really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
40. 
Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America
by:
Bertram M. Gross
3.96 avg rating β 225 ratings 40. 
Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
by:
Garry Kasparov
4.04 avg rating β 3,437 ratings 40. 
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
by:
Peter Zeihan
4.16 avg rating β 12,622 ratings 40. 
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
by:
Ray Dalio
4.27 avg rating β 15,905 ratings 
45. 
Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy
by:
Michael T. Klare
3.62 avg rating β 176 ratings 45. 
The Empire and the Five Kings: America's Abdication and the Fate of the World 3.43 avg rating β 395 ratings
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The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower 4.20 avg rating β 4,755 ratings
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
by:
Francis Fukuyama
4.18 avg rating β 10,199 ratings 45. 
Disunited Nations: Succeeding in a World Where No One Gets Along
by:
Peter Zeihan
4.25 avg rating β 3,161 ratings 
53. 
The Disaster Profiteers: How Natural Disasters Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Even Poorer
by:
John C. Mutter
3.87 avg rating β 45 ratings 53. 
Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
by:
Sheldon S. Wolin
4.17 avg rating β 962 ratings 53. 
Putin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest
by:
Angela Stent
4.18 avg rating β 841 ratings 53. 
A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order
by:
Richard N. Haass
3.74 avg rating β 2,227 ratings 57. 
Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order
by:
Noam Chomsky
4.03 avg rating β 7,199 ratings 57. 
The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order 3.67 avg rating β 157 ratings
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Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order
by:
Bruno Maçães
3.87 avg rating β 772 ratings 60. 
Energise: How To Survive And Prosper In The Age Of Prosperity
by:
Eddie Hobbs
4.33 avg rating β 3 ratings 60. 
The Age of Walls: How Barriers Between Nations Are Changing Our World (3) (Politics of Place)
by:
Tim Marshall
4.01 avg rating β 6,456 ratings 62. 
The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War 3.62 avg rating β 110 ratings
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What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?: How Money Really Does Grow on Trees
by:
Tony Juniper
4.21 avg rating β 411 ratings 62. 
We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World
by:
Malala Yousafzai
4.40 avg rating β 10,048 ratings 62. 
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Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
by:
Ahmed Rashid
3.98 avg rating β 4,736 ratings 66. 
Deforestation: Social Dynamics in Watersheds and Mountain Ecosystems
by:
J. Ives
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 4 ratings 
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When Digital Becomes Human: The Transformation of Customer Relationships 3.84 avg rating β 186 ratings
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Can Democracy Work?: A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World
by:
James Miller
3.54 avg rating β 174 ratings 71. 
Losing Military Supremacy: The Myopia of American Strategic Planning
by:
Andrei Martyanov
4.08 avg rating β 183 ratings 
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The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
by:
Thor Hanson
4.10 avg rating β 3,014 ratings 75. 
Slums of the World: The face of urban poverty in the new millennium?
by:
Un-Habitat
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 78. 
Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World
by:
Bruce Schneier
3.83 avg rating β 1,085 ratings 79. 
The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are
by:
Michael Pye
3.57 avg rating β 2,755 ratings 
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The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire
by:
David E. Sanger
4.25 avg rating β 3,384 ratings 83. 
Planning for Coastal Resilience: Best Practices for Calamitous Times
by:
Timothy Beatley
3.75 avg rating β 20 ratings 
85. 
The Hinge Factor: How Chance and Stupidity Have Changed History
by:
Erik Durschmied
3.38 avg rating β 1,851 ratings 85. 
The Race for What's Left: The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources
by:
Michael T. Klare
3.67 avg rating β 257 ratings 85. 
One Road, Many Dreams: China's Bold Plan to Remake the Global Economy
by:
Daniel Drache
3.23 avg rating β 13 ratings 88. 
Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water
by:
Maude Barlow
3.90 avg rating β 327 ratings 
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The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology 4.14 avg rating β 35 ratings
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The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
by:
Daron AcemoΔlu
4.22 avg rating β 3,622 ratings 93. 
Ruling Capital: Emerging Markets and the Reregulation of Cross-Border Finance 3.86 avg rating β 7 ratings
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Talking Across the Divide: How to Communicate with People You Disagree with and Maybe Even Change the World
by:
Justin Lee
3.95 avg rating β 593 ratings 
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The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius who Discovered a New History of the Earth
by:
Alan Cutler
3.86 avg rating β 974 ratings 96. 
The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
by:
Daniel Yergin
4.08 avg rating β 1,175 ratings 98. 
The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World
by:
Peter Frankopan
3.58 avg rating β 7,782 ratings 99. 
The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
by:
Karen Piper
3.83 avg rating β 156 ratings 99. 
The Middle of Everywhere: The World's Refugees Come to Our Town
by:
Mary Pipher
4.08 avg rating β 1,152 ratings