Parag Khanna received a not so kind review of his new book The Second World in Foreign Affairs, but we'd guess he's one of not so many authors who takes the time to actually travel off the map to places like Kyrgyzstan before writing about them. Sort of reminiscent of Robert Kaplan's early writing about the Balkans. Here's a piece by Khanna on World Hum.
Also on the current reading list:
Two "great sweep of history" books, Strobe Talbott's The Great Experiment and A Splendid Exchange by William J. Bernstein.
Anything by Fareed Zakaria is worth a look. His latest is The Post-American World.
As has been written elsewhere, Robin Wright's Dreams and Shadows presents a damning indictment of the Bush administration's venture into Iraq. It's worth the price of the book to read that last section alone.
We have to recommend anything by the brilliant Amy Chua.
Also on the list is Phillip Gourevitch's We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, about the genocide in Rwanda, as we'll be traveling there in August.
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