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2025 Summer Reading List

May 27, 2025

Summer Reading

New for 2025

Raj Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley are Transforming the Future of War. (2024)
David Shambaugh, Breaking the Engagement: How China Won & Lost America. (Expected June 2025)
Ernest Scheyder, The War Below: Lithium, Copper and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives. (2024)

2024 Selections

Andy Greenberg,Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency. (2022)
Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy. (2023)
Monica Duffy Toft and Sidita Kushi, Dying by the Sword: The Militarization of US Foreign Policy. (2023)
Ya-Wen Lei, The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China. (2023)
Jonathan Blitzer, Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis (2024)

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2025 Summer Reading List

Book Cover The War Below — The War Below: Lithium, Copper and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives

Ernest Scheyder, The War Below: Lithium, Copper and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives. (2024)

Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley are Transforming the Future of War

Raj Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley are Transforming the Future of War. (2024)

Breaking the Engagement: How China Won & Lost America

David Shambaugh, Breaking the Engagement: How China Won & Lost America. (Expected June 2025)

Book Cover, Tracers in the Dark — Andy Greenberg, Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency (2022)

Book Cover, Underground Empire — Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (2023)

Book Cover, Dying by the Sword — Monica Duffy Toft and Sidita Kushi, Dying by the Sword: The Militarization of US Foreign Policy (2023)

Book Cover, The Gilded Cage — Ya-Wen Lei, The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China (2023)

Book Cover, Everyone Who is Gone is Here — Jonathan Blitzer, Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis (2024)