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Japan’s Nuremberg

The Toyko Trial and the Birth of Postwar Liberalism

By Jennifer Lind

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Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics

Cooley and Dukalskis bring sharply into view a near future in which old global networks and institutions of liberal governance are captured to make the world safe for authoritarianism.

Reviewed by G. John Ikenberry

The Abiy Project: God, Power, and War in the New Ethiopia

Gardner’s account of the rise of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is essential reading for those interested in understanding how individual ambition and structural factors mold a leader’s choices.

Reviewed by Ken Opalo

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The Spy and the State: The History of American Intelligence

Jeffrey Rogg’s “The Spy and the State” is a novel and comprehensive narrative of American intelligence from the Revolutionary War to the present day. The book is a complete history of American intelligence based on a new chronology and framework for understanding the role of intelligence in the United States.

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America, América: A New History of the New World

Grandin argues compellingly that Latin American political thought and diplomatic ideals have mightily influenced the United States.

Reviewed by Richard Feinberg

The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy

Toobin’s tenth book is a compulsively readable, minute-by-minute account of how President Gerald Ford reached his decision in 1974 to pardon his disgraced predecessor, Richard Nixon.

Reviewed by Jessica T. Mathews

Ashes of Our Fathers: Inside the Fall of Nagorno-Karabakh

Gavin chronicles the final chapter of the tragedy of Nagorno-Karabakh that culminated in 2023, when Azerbaijan seized the territory and sparked the mass exodus of roughly 100,000 Armenians.