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International Relations

September 2016 Issue

Michael Burleigh

Orient Express

Easternisation: War and Peace in the Asian Century

By Gideon Rachman

November 2015 Issue

Malise Ruthven

Diminishing Powers

The Tail Wags the Dog: International Politics and the Middle East

By Efraim Karsh

April 2003 Issue

Bryan Appleyard

An Ocean Apart

Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order

By Robert Kagan

June 2003 Issue

Michael Prowse

Capital Punishment

The Age of Consent: A Manifesto For A New World Order

By George Monbiot

November 2003 Issue

Simon Heffer

Patrolling The Globe

'A Problem From Hell': America and the Age of Genocide

By Samantha Power

April 2004 Issue

Nigel Jones

Best of Enemies Worst of Amis

Edward Vii and the Entente Cordiale

By Ian Dunlop

Michael Burleigh

Full Spectrum Dominance

Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire

By Niall Ferguson

July 2004 Issue

Michael Prowse

The Way Forward

State Building: Governance and World Order In The Twenty-First Centyr

August 2011 Issue

Lesley Downer

East Meets West

Pacific Cosmopolitans: A Cultural History of US–Japan Relations

By Michael R Auslin

November 2010 Issue

Alex Danchev

The Road To War

The Triumph of the Dark: European International History 1933–1939

By Zara Steiner

February 2009 Issue

Hazhir Teimourian

The Caliphate Strikes Back

Khomeini’s Ghost: Iran since 1979

By Con Coughlin

August 2008 Issue

Leslie Mitchell

Our Man in Naples

The Hamilton Letters: The Naples Dispatches of William Hamilton

By John A Davis and Giovanni Capuano

October 2008 Issue

Nikolai Tolstoy

From the English Quay

St Petersburg and the British: The City through the Eyes of British Visitors and Residents

By Anthony Cross

October 2008 Issue

Piers Brendon

The Fakir and the Bulldog

Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age

By Arthur Herman

Paul Johnson

Battler for Britain

Marlborough: England’s Fragile Genius

By Richard Holmes

April 2008 Issue

Ronald Mutebi

Lords of Poverty

The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn’t Working

By Robert Calderisi

March 2008 Issue

M R D Foot

Silence at the Front

The Greatest Day in History: How the Great War Really Ended

By Nicholas Best

Caroline Moorehead

Poor Relations

Women of the World: The Rise of the Female Diplomat

By Helen McCarthy

December 2011 Issue

Vernon Bogdanor

Lion, Harp & Unicorn

The Two Unions: Ireland, Scotland, and the Survival of the United Kingdom, 1707–2007

By Alvin Jackson

December 2011 Issue

Odd Arne Westad

Cold Hands, Warm Heart

Roosevelt’s Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War

By Frank Costigliola