• The best books on The Non-Aligned Movement - The Non-Aligned Movement: Genesis Organization and Politics. by Jurgen Dinkel
  • The best books on The Non-Aligned Movement - Southern Constellations: The Poetics of the Non-Aligned by Bojana Piskur
  • The best books on The Non-Aligned Movement - The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World by Vijay Prashad
  • The best books on The Non-Aligned Movement - Race and the Yugoslav Region: Postsocialist, Post-Conflict, Postcolonial? by Catherine Baker
  • The best books on The Non-Aligned Movement - Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination by Adom Getachew

The best books on The Non-Aligned Movement, recommended by Paul Stubbs

The Non-Aligned Movement was a loose alliance of more than 100 member states whose heyday was during the Cold War, though it continues to exist today. Here, sociologist Paul Stubbs chooses five books to illustrate the cultural, political and economic influence of the Non-Aligned Movement and argues the ideas that animated it are still of vital importance.

  • The best books on Neoliberalism - A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey
  • The best books on Neoliberalism - Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism by Quinn Slobodian
  • The best books on Neoliberalism - The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–1979 by Michel Foucault
  • The best books on Neoliberalism - Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution by Wendy Brown
  • The best books on Neoliberalism - Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism by Melinda Cooper

The best books on Neoliberalism, recommended by Gary Gerstle

Neoliberalism is, arguably, the dominant political and economic ideology of the Western world, although its dominance is contested and the ills of the world are often laid at its door. Here Cambridge historian Gary Gerstle discusses five books that will help you understand neoliberalism’s origins, its ambitions and why it has been supported and opposed with such partisanship.

  • The best books on Bosnia - Postcards from the Grave by Emir Suljagic
  • The best books on Bosnia - The Quick and the Dead: Under Siege in Sarajevo by Janine di Giovanni
  • The best books on Bosnia - Genocide on the Drina River by Edina Becirevic
  • The best books on Bosnia - When Neighbors Were Real Human Beings by Eli Tauber
  • The best books on Bosnia - A Balkan Journey by Chris Leslie

The best books on Bosnia, recommended by Velma Šarić

As a teenager, Velma Šarić’s hometown of Kladanj welcomed refugees from eastern Bosnia as it was bombed and shelled, her primary school eventually becoming a shelter for people fleeing the massacre at Srebenica. Now she runs Sarajevo’s Post-Conflict Research Centre, trying to prevent anything like it from ever happening again. She recommends books to read on the Bosnian War and explains that it was not a war between different communities, but rather an assault on the country’s multiethnic, multicultural identity.

  • The best books on The Civil Rights Era - Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement by Barbara Ransby
  • The best books on The Civil Rights Era - God’s Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights by Charles Marsh
  • The best books on The Civil Rights Era - Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow
  • The best books on The Civil Rights Era - The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle by Clayborne Carson, Darlene Clark Hine, David J. Garrow, Gerald Gill & Vincent Harding
  • The best books on The Civil Rights Era - The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and assisted by Alex Haley, Laurence Fishburne (narrator)

The best books on The Civil Rights Era, recommended by Lerone Martin

The struggle for Black freedom in America has been going on since the first enslaved Africans were brought to the continent, but it was the civil rights era of 1954 to 1968 that finally resulted in a raft of legislation that gave equal citizenship to Black people in the United States. Here, Professor Lerone Martin of Stanford University recommends the best books to understand the American civil rights movement, with a focus on some of the individuals who were key to its success.

  • The best books on The Cold War - The Cold War: A World History by Odd Arne Westad
  • The best books on The Cold War - For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War by Melvyn P Leffler
  • The best books on The Cold War - Russia and the Idea of the West by Robert English
  • The best books on The Cold War - The Enigma of 1989: The USSR and the Liberation of Eastern Europe Jacques Lévesque (trans. Keith Martin)
  • The best books on The Cold War - Reagan and Gorbachev by Jack Matlock

The best books on The Cold War, recommended by Archie Brown

American military and economic superiority cannot explain why the Cold War came to an end in the late 1980s and early 1990s. According to the historian Archie Brown, you need to accept the primacy of politics and human agency both in the USSR and the West. He chooses five books to understand the Cold War and offers some broader reflections on the qualities of good political leadership—then and now.

  • The best books on June 4th - Neither Gods nor Emperors by Craig Calhoun
  • The best books on June 4th - The Pro-Democracy Protests in China: Reports from the Provinces by Jonathan Unger
  • The best books on June 4th - New Ghosts, Old Dreams by Geremie Barme and Linda Jaivin
  • The best books on June 4th - The People's Republic of Amnesia by Louisa Lim
  • The best books on June 4th - The Gate of Heavenly Peace by Carma Hinton

The best books on June 4th, 1989, recommended by Jeffrey Wasserstrom

In contrast to Eastern Europe, the 1989 protests in China did not lead to the overthrow of the Communist Party. But if China’s leaders chose the right course on June 4th, 1989, why are they still frightened to come to terms with it? Sinologist and historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom picks the best books to understand events at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and around China on that hot summer night.

  • The best books on 9/11 - The Osama bin Laden I know by Peter Bergen
  • The best books on 9/11 - The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
  • The best books on 9/11 - The Least Worst Place by Karen Greenberg
  • The best books on 9/11 - Against All Enemies by Richard Clarke
  • The best books on 9/11 - Cover Up by Peter Lance

The best books on 9/11, recommended by Yosri Fouda

Who was Osama bin Laden? How critical was he to the 9/11 attacks on the United States? What happened in the first 100 days at Guantanamo Bay? Who was in charge of the United States when George W Bush went into hiding? What should we make of all the conspiracy theories that have sprung up around the events of that day? Yosri Fouda, the veteran Egyptian investigative reporter, author and TV host talks us through his choice of the best books on 9/11.