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2024 Summer Reading List

Jan 27, 2024

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives, Siddharth Kara, (2023) Pacific Power Paradox: American Statecraft and the Fate of the Asian Peace, Van Jackson, (2023) The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World, James Crawford, (2023) Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency, Andy Greenberg, (2022) Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy, Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, (2023)

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2023 Summer Reading List

May 12, 2023

M. E. Sarotte, Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate (2021) Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell, Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise (2020) Adam Tooze, Shutdown: How COVID Shook the World’s Economy (2021) Maxine Bédat, Unraveled: The Life and Death of a Garment (2021) Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (2023)

2022 Summer Reading List

Apr 21, 2022

Payal Arora, The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West (2019) Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice (2021) George Packer, Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (2019) Séverine Autesserre, The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider’s Guide to Changing the World (2021)

2021 Summer Reading List

May 9, 2021

Payal Arora, The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West (2019) Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice (2021) George Packer, Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (2019) Séverine Autesserre, The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider’s Guide to Changing the World (2021)

2020 Summer Reading List

May 4, 2020

Mara Hvistendahl, The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI and Industrial Espionage (2020) Nada Bakos, The Targeter: My Life in the CIA, Hunting Terrorists and Challenging the White House (2019) Daron Acemoglu et. al., The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty (2019) Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (2019)

2019 Summer Reading List

May 9, 2019

Raj Kumar, The Business of Changing the World: How Billionaires, Tech Disrupters, and Social Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Aid Industry (2019) William J. Burns, The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal (2019) Jeffrey Lewis, The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States (2018) Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (2018)

2018 Summer Reading List

May 1, 2018

Steve Coll, Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan (2018) Lawrence Freedman, The Future of War: A History (2017) Alexander Betts and Paul Collier, Refuge: Rethinking Refugee Policy in a Changing World (2017) Peter Frankopan, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (2018) Dambisa Moyo, Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth – and How to Fix It (2018)

2017 Summer Reading List

May 9, 2017

Richard Baldwin, The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization (2016) Richard Haass, A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order (2017) David Shambaugh, China’s Future (2016) Jay Solomon, The Iran Wars: Spy Games, Bank Battles, and the Secret Deals That Reshaped the Middle East (2016)