International Affairs

Graham Allison, Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe.

Peter Beinart, The Crisis of Zionism.

Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right.

Peter L. Bergen, Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden.

Matthew Brzezinski, Casino Moscow: A Tale of Greed and Adventure on Capitalism’s Wildest Frontier.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives.

Larry Diamond, Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq.

Stuart E. Eizenstat, The Art of Diplomacy: How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements That Changed the World.

Stuart E. Eizenstat, Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II.

Anand Giridharadas, India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking.

Gershom Gorenberg, The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount.

James F. Hoge Jr. and Gideon Rose, eds., How Did This Happen?: Terrorism and the New War.

James F. Hoge Jr. and Fareed Zakaria, eds., The American Encounter: The United States and the Making of the Modern World, Essays from 75 Years of Foreign Affairs.

Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power.

John Lechner, Death Is Our Business: Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare.

Bernard-Henri Lévy, The Empire and the Five Kings: America’s Abdication and the Fate of the World.

Robert S. McNamara and James G. Blight: Wilson’s Ghost: Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing, and Catastrophe in the 21st Century.

Souad Mekhennet, I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad.

Judith Miller and Laurie Mylroie, Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf.

Michael Pillsbury, The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace the United States as the Global Superpower.

Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker, Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda.

Elaine Sciolino, La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life

Elaine Sciolino, Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran.

Dan Senor and Saul Singer, The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World.

Ray Takeyh, Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic.

Mark Urban, The Skripal Files: The Life and Near Death of a Russian Spy.

Jere Van Dyk: Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban.