Foreign Affairs Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Zahra delves into the tumultuous years between World War I and World War II to argue that it was resistance to globalism and globalization that ended up weakening Europe’s then-fragile democracies, eventually contributing to the continent’s slide into dictatorship.

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“A Eurocentric view of the past still shapes how most international relations scholars see the world.” In a review of Ayse Zarakol’s new book, “Before the West,” @VHansenYear1000 discusses how non-Western empires have shaped modern politics. https://t.co/CKw86FP4WN

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.@charleskingdc reviews three new books by right-wing philosophers: “Regime Change” by Patrick Deneen, “Common Good Constitutionalism” by Adrian Vermeule, and “Conservatism” by Yoram Hazony. https://t.co/576R8UoKJw

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.@charleskingdc reviews three new books by right-wing philosophers: “Regime Change” by Patrick Deneen, “Common Good Constitutionalism” by Adrian Vermeule, and “Conservatism” by Yoram Hazony. https://t.co/3yYw3P0WBW

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In “Against the World,” Tara Zahra looks at the relationship between resistance to globalization and antidemocratic politics over time. Read Mark Mazower’s review: https://t.co/fbOpm7jChv

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.@LizaGoitein discusses Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which permits surveillance of almost any foreigner abroad—and how this law has become a powerful domestic spying tool within the United States. https://t.co/1VkpIsXd9C

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In “The Absolutely Indispensable Man,” Kal Raustiala presents a nuanced portrait of Ralph Bunche, a diplomat, civil rights leader, and key defender of the liberal international order during the mid-twentieth century. Read @Ras_Karya’s review: https://t.co/LZBzq5Kd6l

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Read @OlufemiOTaiwo’s review of Howard French’s recent book “Born in Blackness,” which demonstrates that Africa was never marginal to global events, but is rather the place where the modern world came into being. https://trib.al/CMS512K

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Rana Foroohar’s “Homecoming” and Shannon O’Neil’s “The Globalization Myth” both offer visions of what a deglobalized world will look like. Read Raghuram Rajan’s review of both titles: https://t.co/wRGK4YqRpm

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From the archives: In “The Souls of Black Folk,” published in 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois declared that the “problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line.” Two decades later, he revisited that insight in an essay for Foreign Affairs. https://t.co/gfSiOrFQJG