International Relations

Freedom by Angela Merkel Review, Candid on the GDR, Stubborn on Putin

Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021 by Angela Merkel is the most revealing book a German chancellor has ever written about growing up … Read more

Ever wonder why a book written by a civil servant tells you more about the birth of a nation than … Read more

Have you ever wondered how a country can be born not just from the courage of its people, but from … Read more

Why Did the US Government Try to Silence Its Own Diplomat During the Bangladesh Genocide? Archer K. Blood answers to … Read more

Do you know why a nation born from a war that killed millions still can’t find peace, and why the … Read more

Ever wonder why you feel a knot in your stomach every time you see a news headline about nuclear tensions? … Read more

Did you ever wonder why a country can do everything the IMF tells it to do, cut its budget, sell … Read more

We live in an age of unprecedented power and paralyzing fear. We can destroy our planet many times over, yet … Read more

Does the West really have all the answers for a rising power like China, or are we repeating the same … Read more

Do you ever wonder why, despite possessing enough nuclear firepower to destroy the world many times over, the United States … Read more

Do you ever lie awake at night wondering what would actually happen if someone pushed that button? Not the vague, … Read more

Do you ever lie awake at night wondering if the human species is actually smart enough to survive its own … Read more

Are you tired of watching modern foreign policies collapse because leaders treat the world as they wish it to be … Read more

Did you ever stare at a headline — Russia seizing territory, China building islands in the sea, the Middle East … Read more

Does it ever strike you that the world’s most violent and contested places — the Iran-Iraq border, the South China … Read more

Did you know that the international “rules” everyone keeps talking about were designed by a handful of exhausted Europeans in … Read more

Do you ever finish a history book or class and wonder why everything seems to revolve around Europe and the … Read more

Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance is the kind of book you reach for when “US foreign policy” … Read more

Politics, Scott Jennings argues in A Revolution of Common Sense, stopped listening to ordinary people long ago and disappeared into … Read more

The book “One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” by Omar El Akkad is a scorching, timely examination … Read more

Confronting Evil: Assessing the Worst of the Worst argues that evil isn’t abstract—it is embodied in specific people, decisions, and … Read more