The Best of Books 2024 (Foreign Affairs)

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

Underground Empire

How America Weaponized the World Economy

Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman, 2023

To Run the World

The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power

Sergey Radchenko, 2024

Political and Legal

Freedom from Fear

An Incomplete History of Liberalism

Alan S. Kahan, 2023

Tyranny of the Minority

Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point

Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt, 2023

Autocracy, Inc.

The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

Anne Applebaum, 2024

Economic and Social and Environmental

How the World Ran Out of Everything

Inside the Global Supply Chain

Peter S. Goodman, 2024

Paper Soldiers

How the Weaponization of the Dollar Changed the World Order

Saleha Mohsin, 2024

The Coming Wave

Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

Mustafa Suleyman, 2023

Military and Scientific and Technological

The Russian Way of Deterrence

Strategic Culture, Coercion, and War

Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky, 2023

Takeover

Hitler's Final Rise to Power

Timothy W. Ryback, 2024

Why War?

Richard Overy, 2024

The United States

Where Have All the Democrats Gone?

The Soul of the Party in the Age of Extremes

Ruy Teixeira, John B. Judis, 2023

Ascent to Power

How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World

David L. Roll, 2024

A Great Disorder

National Myth and the Battle for America

Richard Slotkin, 2024

Western Europe

How Not to Be a Politician

Rory Stewart, 2023

The new politics of Poland

A case of post-traumatic sovereignty

Jaroslaw Kuisz, 2023

Indulging Kleptocracy

British Service Providers, Postcommunist Elites, and the Enabling of Corruption

John Heathershaw, Tena Prelec, Tom Mayne, 2024

Western Hemisphere

In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl

Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexicos Ancient Civilizations

Merilee Grindle, 2023

LatinoLand

A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority

Marie Arana, 2024

American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873

Alan Taylor, 2024

Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics

A Nasty Little War

The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution

Anna Reid, 2023

The Showman

Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

Simon Shuster, 2024

Domestic Service in the Soviet Union

Women's Emancipation and the Gendered Hierarchy of Labor

Alissa Klots, 2024

Middle East

The Ghosts of Iraq's Marshes

A History of Conflict, Tragedy, and Restoration

Steve Lonergan, Jassim Al-Asadi, Keith Holmes, 2024

The Crooked Timber of Democracy in Israel

Promise Unfulfilled

Dahlia Scheindlin, 2023

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

Nathan Thrall, 2023

Asia and Pacific

The Dragon Roars Back

Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy

Suisheng Zhao, 2022

Japan’s Quiet Leadership

Reshaping the Indo-Pacific

Mireya Solis, 2023

Shadows at Noon

The South Asian Twentieth Century

Joya Chatterji, 2023

Africa

The Last Colony

A Tale of Exile, Justice, and Courage

Philippe Sands, 2023

The Rebel's Clinic

The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

Adam Shatz, 2024

Anansi's Gold

The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World

Yepoka Yeebo, 2023