Anthology
The Best Books of 2015
December 14, 2015
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Editor's Picks
The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence
David BromwichReviewed by Iain Hampsher-Monk
G. John Ikenberry: Political and Legal
The Question of Intervention: John Stuart Mill and the Responsibility to Protect
Michael DoyleReviewed by G. John Ikenberry
The Global Transformation: History, Modernity and the Making of International Relations
Barry Buzan and George LawsonReviewed by G. John Ikenberry
Richard N. Cooper: Economic, Social, and Environmental
Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, The Great Recession, and the Uses—and Misuses—of History
Barry EichengreenReviewed by Richard N. Cooper
Lawrence D. Freedman: Military, Scientific, and Technological
The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World
Adrienne MayorReviewed by Lawrence D. Freedman
A Higher Form of Killing: Six Weeks in World War I That Forever Changed the Nature of Warfare
Diana PrestonReviewed by Lawrence D. Freedman
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
David E. HoffmanReviewed by Lawrence D. Freedman
Walter Russell Mead: The United States
Global Rules: America, Britain, and a Disordered World
James E. CroninReviewed by Walter Russell Mead
Andrew Moravcsik: Western Europe
How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People
Sudhir HazareesinghReviewed by Andrew Moravcsik
Richard Feinberg: Western Hemisphere
Business Groups and Transnational Capitalism in Central America: Economic and Political Strategies
Benedicte Bull, Fulvio Castellacci, and Yuri KasaharaReviewed by Richard Feinberg
Latin America and the Rising South: Changing World, Changing Priorities
Augusto de la Torre, Tatiana Didier, Alain Ize, Daniel Lederman, and Sergio L. SchmuklerReviewed by Richard Feinberg
Empire’s Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean From Columbus to the Present Day
Carrie GibsonReviewed by Richard Feinberg
Robert Legvold: Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Republics
Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator
Oleg V. Khlevniuk, translated by Nora Seligman FavorovReviewed by Robert Legvold
The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution
Dominic LievenReviewed by Robert Legvold
John Waterbury: The Middle East
Andrew Nathan: Asia and the Pacific
The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power
Thomas J. ChristensenReviewed by Andrew J. Nathan
Nicolas van de Walle: Africa
Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola Since the Civil War
Ricardo Soares De OliveiraReviewed by Nicolas van de Walle
Democracy in Africa: Successes, Failures, and the Struggle for Political Reform
Nic CheesemanReviewed by Nicolas van de Walle
Africa’s Development in Historical Perspective
Emmanuel Akyeampong, Robert H. Bates, Nathan Nunn, and James RobinsonReviewed by Nicolas van de Walle
