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Last Updated 12/08/16

The Best of Books 2016

33 Articles

33 Articles

Table of Contents

I

Editors' Picks

December 9, 2016

December 9, 2016

The Rise and Fall of American Growth

December 9, 2016

December 9, 2016

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Michael Fontaine

December 9, 2016

December 9, 2016

Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran

Ervand Abrahamian

II

Political and Legal

September/October 2016

September/October 2016

War by Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft

G. John Ikenberry

November/December 2016

November/December 2016

Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire

G. John Ikenberry

January/February 2016

January/February 2016

The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire

G. John Ikenberry

III

Economic, Social, and Environmental

January/February 2016

January/February 2016

Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception

Richard N. Cooper

September/October 2016

September/October 2016

The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy

Richard N. Cooper

November/December 2016

November/December 2016

The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan

Richard N. Cooper

IV

Military, Scientific, and Technological

January/February 2016

January/February 2016

The Dictator’s Army: Battlefield Effectiveness in Authoritarian Regimes

Lawrence D. Freedman

January/February 2016

January/February 2016

Hirohito’s War: The Pacific War, 1941–1945

Lawrence D. Freedman

September/October 2016

September/October 2016

Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story

Lawrence D. Freedman

V

The United States

November/December 2016

November/December 2016

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

Walter Russell Mead

January/February 2016

January/February 2016

Between the World and Me

Walter Russell Mead

September/October 2016

September/October 2016

His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt

Walter Russell Mead

VI

Western Europe

January/February 2016

January/February 2016

The EU’s Human Rights Dialogue With China: Quiet Diplomacy and Its Limits

Andrew Moravcsik

January/February 2016

January/February 2016

New Old World: An Indian Journalist Discovers the Changing Face of Europe

Andrew Moravcsik

November/December 2016

November/December 2016

Towards an Imperfect Union: A Conservative Case for the EU

Andrew Moravcsik

VII

Western Hemisphere

December 9, 2016

December 9, 2016

Latin America Confronts the United States: Asymmetry and Influence

Richard Feinberg

December 9, 2016

December 9, 2016

Nicaragua and the Politics of Utopia: Development and Culture in the Modern State

Richard Feinberg

November/December 2016

November/December 2016

Aspirational Power: Brazil on the Long Road to Global Influence

VIII

Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics

January/February 2016

January/February 2016

The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

December 9, 2016

December 9, 2016

Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia’s New Nationalism

September/October 2016

September/October 2016

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

IX

Middle East

March/April 2016

March/April 2016

The Sunni Tragedy in the Middle East: Northern Lebanon From al-Qaeda to ISIS

Engineers of Jihad: The Curious Connection Between Violent Extremism and Education

September/October 2016

September/October 2016

The New Arab Wars: Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East

X

Asia and Pacific

The Most Wanted Man in China: My Journey From Scientist to Enemy of the State

March/April 2016

March/April 2016

The Pakistan Paradox: Instability and Resilience

Andrew J. Nathan

September/October 2016

September/October 2016

Writers of the Winter Republic: Literature and Resistance in Park Chung Hee's Korea

Andrew J. Nathan

XI

Africa

March/April 2016

March/April 2016

Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine

Nicolas van de Walle

September/October 2016

September/October 2016

City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp

Nicolas van de Walle

December 9, 2016

December 9, 2016

Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa

Nicolas van de Walle

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