HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century

The Lost Peace

How We Failed to Prevent a Second Cold War

by Richard Sakwa

Circle of Stars

A History of the EU and the People Who Made It

by Dermot Hodson

The Rise and Fall of the EAST

How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline

by Yasheng Huang

The Bin Laden Papers

How the Abbottabad Raid Revealed the Truth about al-Qaeda, Its Leader and His Family

by Nelly Lahoud

Korea

A New History of South and North

by Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo

Homelands

A Personal History of Europe

by Timothy Garton Ash

Sky Above Kharkiv

Dispatches from the Ukrainian Front

The Margellos World Republic of Letters

by Serhiy Zhadan

Translated by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler

A World Safe for Democracy

Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order

Politics and Culture

by G. John Ikenberry

Spain

The Trials and Triumphs of a Modern European Country

by Michael Reid

China’s Law of the Sea

The New Rules of Maritime Order

by Isaac B. Kardon

The Weaponisation of Everything

A Field Guide to the New Way of War

by Mark Galeotti

My Egypt Archive

by Alan Mikhail

The Will to See

Dispatches from a World of Misery and Hope

by Bernard-Henri Levy

Public Freedoms in the Islamic State

World Thought in Translation

by Rached Ghannouchi

Translated by David L. Johnston

Mao and Markets

The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise

by Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao

Time for Socialism

Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021

by Thomas Piketty