Reading List for Foreign Affairs Book Discussion Group 2025-2026Like this list

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• The Message

  Coates, Ta-Nehisi,

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  The renowned author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell—and the ones we don’t—shape our realities.

• How the World Ran Out of Everything

  Inside the Global Supply Chain

  Goodman, Peter S.,

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  In 'How the World Ran Out of Everything,' . . . journalist Peter S. Goodman reveals the fascinating innerworkings of our supply chain and the factors that have led to its constant, dangerous vulnerability. His reporting takes readers deep into the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Return of Great Powers

  Russia, China, and the Next World War

  Sciutto, Jim,

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  The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 dawned what Francis Fukuyama called "The End of History." Three decades later, Jim Sciutto said on CNN's air as the Ukraine war began, that we are living in a "1939 moment." History never ended-it barely…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Birth of Korean Cool

  How One Nation Is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture

  Hong, Euny

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  "Euny Hong grew up in Gangnam, the posh Seoul neighborhood Psy is mocking in his viral sensation, "Gangnam Style." She knows the song's popularity is not just a fluke but rather the result of Hallyu--the Korean wave--just another sign of South…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Patriot

  a Memoir Alexei Navalny ; Translated by Arch Tait With Stephen Dalziel

  Navalʹnyĭ, Alekseĭ,

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  A political freedom fighter who paid the ultimate price for his convictions recounts his political career, the many attempts on his life and the lives of the people closest to him and the relentless campaign he and his team waged against an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hidden Globe

  How Wealth Hacks the World

  Abrahamian, Atossa Araxia,

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  A globe shows the world we think we know: neatly delineated sovereign nations that grant or restrict their citizens’ rights. Beneath, above, and tucked inside their borders, however, another universe has been engineered into existence. It consists…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

  El Akkad, Omar, 1982-

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  From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an empire that doesn't consider you fully human. On October 25th, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• War

  Woodward, Bob, 1943-

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  "War is an intimate and sweeping account of one of the most tumultuous periods in presidential politics and American history. We see President Joe Biden and his top advisers in tense conversations with Russian president Vladimir Putin, Israeli prime…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Feed the World

  the History and Future of Food

  Smil, Vaclav,

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  In this myth-busting book, a scientist investigates why big food-producing countries also have the most undernourished populations; why food goes to waste and how to prevent it; whether the planet could and should go vegan; and how to feed a growing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Private Revolutions

  Four Women Face China's New Social Order

  Yang, Yuan, 1990-

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  A sweeping yet intimate portrait of modern China told through the lives of four ordinary women striving for a better future in a highly unequal society.