Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000 Featuring extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue – bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous politics of the previous decade and the long-term implications of the Soviet collapse – this compact, original, and engaging book offers the definitive account … Continue Reading
Blood Oil Natural resources empower the world’s most coercive men. Autocrats like Putin and the Saudis spend oil money on weapons and repression. ISIS and Congo’s militias spend resource money on atrocities and ammunition. For decades resource-fueled authoritarians and extremists have forced endless crises on the West – and the ultimate source of their … Continue Reading
The Narrow Corridor From the authors of the international best seller, Why Nations Fail, a crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flourishes in some states but falls to authoritarianism or anarchy in others – and explains how it can continue to thrive despite new threats. Liberty is hardly the “natural” order … Continue Reading
Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream The untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen—and how we can do it again. The American economy glitters on the outside, but the reality is quite different. Job opportunities and economic growth … Continue Reading
Chip War: The Quest to Dominate the World’s Most Critical Technology The Financial Times Business Book of the Year, this epic account of the decades-long battle to control one of the world’s most critical resources—microchip technology—with the United States and China increasingly in fierce competition is “pulse quickening…a nonfiction thriller” (The New York Times). You may … Continue Reading