The Best of Books 2022

by Foreign Affairs

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33 books

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See the source list and commentary at www.foreignaffairs.com

Editors’ Picks

Cuba

An American History

Ada Ferrer, 2021

Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

Howard W. French, 2021

Never Turn Back

China and the Forbidden History of The 1980s

Julian Gewirtz, 2022

Political and Legal

The Age of the Strongman

How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy Around the World

Gideon Rachman, 2022

Spin Dictators

The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century

Daniel Treisman, Sergei Guriev, 2023

Liberalism in Dark Times

The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century

Joshua L. Cherniss, 2023

Economic | Social | Environmental

Career and Family

Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity

Claudia Goldin, 2021

The Future of Money

How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance

Eswar S. Prasad, 2021

Growth for Good

Reshaping Capitalism to Save Humanity from Climate Catastrophe

Alessio Terzi, 2022

Military | Scientific | Technological

The Economic Weapon

The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War

Nicholas Mulder, 2022

A Continent Erupts

Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955

Ronald H. Spector, 2022

Winning and Losing the Nuclear Peace

The Rise, Demise, and Revival of Arms Control

Michael Krepon, 2021

The United States

American Exceptionalism

A New History of an Old Idea

Ian Tyrrell, 2022

Lincoln and the Fight for Peace

John Avlon, 2022

There Is Nothing for You Here

Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century

Fiona Hill, 2021

Western Europe

Free

A Child and a Country at the End of History

We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

Fintan O'Toole, 2022

The Newspaper Axis

Six Press Barons who Enabled Hitler

Kathryn S. Olmsted, 2022

Western Hemisphere

The Last Emperor of Mexico

The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World

Edward Shawcross, 2021

Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse

Inside the Collapse of Venezuela

William Neuman, 2022

Unsettled Land

From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas

Sam W. Haynes, 2022

Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics

The Soviet Myth of World War II

Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR

Jonathan Brunstedt, 2021

God Save the USSR

Soviet Muslims and the Second World War

Jeff Eden, 2021

Navalny

Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future?

Dollbaum, Jan Matti, Morvan Lallouet, Ben Noble, 2021

Middle East

States of Subsistence

The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan

José Ciro Martínez, 2022

Bread and Freedom

Egypt's Revolutionary Situation

Mona El-Ghobashy, 2021

Fixing Stories

Local Newsmaking and International Media in Turkey and Syria

Noah Amir Arjomand, 2022

Asia and Pacific

The Digital Silk Road

China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future

Jonathan E. Hillman, 2021

Infiltrating Society

The Thai Military's Internal Security Affairs

Puangthong Pawakapan, 2021

Line of Advantage - Japan′s Grand Strategy in the Era of Abe Shinzo

Michael Green, 2022

Africa

Salafism and Political Order in Africa

Sebastian Elischer, 2021

Roadblock Politics

Peer Schouten, 2022

Holy War

The Untold Story of Catholic Italy's Crusade Against the Ethiopian Orthodox Church

Ian Campbell, 2021