The Best of Books 2023

by Foreign Affairs

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32 books

The very best of the hundreds of books on international politics, economics, and history that were featured in the magazine this year, selected by Foreign Affairs’ editors and book reviewers

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

Editors’ Picks

Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars

Tara Zahra, 2023

Judgment at Tokyo

World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia

Gary J. Bass, 2023

The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

Martin Wolf, 2023

Political And Legal

Human Rights for Pragmatists

Social Power in Modern Times

Jack Snyder, 2022

Geopolitics and Democracy

The Western Liberal Order from Foundation to Fracture

Peter Trubowitz, Brian Burgoon, 2023

The Project-State and Its Rivals

A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Charles S. Maier, 2023

Economic And Social And Environmental

The Economic Government of the World

Martin Daunton, 2023

The Corporation and the Twentieth Century

The History of American Business Enterprise

Richard N. Langlois, 2023

Chip War

The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller, 2022

Military And Scientific And Technological

Armada

The Spanish Enterprise and England's Deliverance in 1588

Colin Martin, Geoffrey Parker, 2023

Spies

The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

Calder Walton, 2023

Road to Surrender

Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II

Evan Thomas, 2023

The United States

King: A Life

Jonathan Eig, 2023

Dying by the Sword

The Militarization of US Foreign Policy

Monica Duffy Toft, Sidita Kushi, 2023

Pandemic Politics

The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID

Shana Kushner Gadarian, Sara Wallace Goodman, Thomas B. Pepinsky, 2022

Western Europe

Democracy Erodes from the Top

Leaders, Citizens, and the Challenge of Populism in Europe

Larry M. Bartels, 2023

Tainted Democracy

Viktor Orbán and the Subversion of Hungary

Zsuzsanna Szelényi, 2022

Western Hemisphere

The Rebel Scribe

Carleton Beals and the Progressive Challenge to U.S. Policy in Latin America

Christopher Neal, 2022

Cooperating with the Colossus

A Social and Political History of US Military Bases in World War II Latin America

Rebecca Herman, 2022

Solito

Javier Zamora, 2023

Eastern Europe And Former Soviet Republics

On the Edge

Life along the Russia-China Border

Franck Billé, Caroline Humphrey, 2021

German Blood, Slavic Soil

How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad

Nicole Eaton, 2023

Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples

Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia

Adrienne Edgar, 2022

Middle East

A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures

Shahzad Bashir, 2022

Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East

Deception, Disinformation and Social Media

Marc Owen Jones, 2021

Locked Out of Development

Insiders and Outsiders in Arab Capitalism

Steffen Hertog, 2023

Asia And Pacific

Dictatorship and Information

Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China

Martin K. Dimitrov, 2023

How Asia Found Herself

A Story of Intercultural Understanding

Nile Green, 2022

The Rise and Fall of the EAST

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

Yasheng Huang, 2023

Africa

The Scarce State

Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland

Noah L. Nathan, 2023

History of South Africa

From 1902 to the Present

Thula Simpson, 2021

The Lumumba Plot

The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination

Stuart A. Reid, 2023