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Leadership: Lessons from a Life in Diplomacy
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Et Tu, Rishi?
Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How They Fall – From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson
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Tear Down These Peace Walls
How to Fix Northern Ireland
By Malachi O’Doherty
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Quis Custodiet?
Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy
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Once Upon a Time in Ukraine
Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past
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Pirates of the Aegean
Dead in the Water: Murder and Fraud in the World’s Most Secretive Industry
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Age of the Pangolin
The Great Recoil: Politics after Populism and the Pandemic
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Too Bored to Vote?
Democracy Rules
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Pedestal Pushers
Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
By Alex von Tunzelmann
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The Lies Have It
The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism
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The View from Beijing
Xi Jinping: The Backlash
By Richard McGregor
China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism
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Beyond the Black Stuff
The New Map: Energy, Climate and the Clash of Nations
By Daniel Yergin
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Out with Battleships, In with Bakeries
Soft Power: The New Great Game
By Robert Winder
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Murder on the Mind
From Russia with Blood: Putin’s Ruthless Killing Campaign and Secret War on the West
By Heidi Blake
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Taking Aim at Apartheid
An Unwitting Assassin: The Story of my Father’s Attempted Assassination of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd
By Susie Cazenove
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All the President’s Hitmen
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Definitive History of Secret CIA Assassins, Armies & Operators
By Annie Jacobsen
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Imminent Return to Chaos & War
The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth
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Empires of the Mind: The Colonial Past and the Politics of the Present
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By Eric Kaufmann
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By Taylor Downing
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