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The Best of Books 2024
Foreign Affairs’ Top Picks of the Year
Catch up on end-of-year reading with Foreign Affairs! We have selected the very best of the hundreds of books on international politics, economics, and history that were featured in the magazine this year. Find your next read in our full collection.
Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy
In a revelatory book, Farrell and Newman describe how the United States has turned its control over information networks into a hidden tool of economic domination—and warn of the risks of Washington’s weaponization of data power for ordinary people, as well as for the global financial system.
Reviewed by Paul Krugman
To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power
In a major reconsideration of Cold War history, Radchenko examines the Soviet Union’s competing ambitions for revolution, security, and legitimacy—and how Soviet leadership, blinded by its own hubris and aggression, set the stage for the downfall of the USSR.
Reviewed by John Lewis Gaddis
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LatinoLand: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minority
Arana’s book is a sweeping, celebratory history of the diverse Latino contributions to American life, shot through with the complex tensions between the imperatives of assimilation and maintaining one’s cultural identity.
Reviewed by Richard Feinberg
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
Thrall’s powerful and moving portrayal of the quotidian frustrations of life under Israeli occupation is both a painful reminder of the costs of conflict and, in its insistence on the humanity of its protagonists, both Israeli and Palestinian, a glimmer of hope.
Reviewed by Lisa Anderson
The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
Shatz discusses the life of the anticolonial revolutionary Frantz Fanon, showing how Fanon’s ideas about race relations, colonialism, and the purpose of violence emerged from the political ferment of his time.
Reviewed by Nicolas van de Walle
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