Recommendations from our site
“Clark’s book takes some of the key moments of the past half-millennium—Westphalia, at the end of the Thirty Years’ War; Utrecht, at the end of the war of Spanish Succession; the Congress of Vienna, after the Napoleonic Wars; Versailles; and then the collection of treaties after the Second World War—and sets out descriptions of the negotiations, the contexts of the treaties, and most important the evolution of norms of legitimacy among powerful states.” Read more...
The best books on Geopolitics and Global Commerce
Paul Tucker, Economist
Our most recommended books
-
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
by Ronen Bergman -
Strategies of Containment
by John Gaddis -
Political Community in the North Atlantic Area
by Karl Deutsch et al -
The Utility of Force
by Rupert Smith -
Fiasco
by Thomas E Ricks -
Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
by Adom Getachew
