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Exorbitant Pillage

Can the U.S. Dollar Survive the U.S. Government?

By Lael Brainard

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Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future

This riveting book offers a distinctive framework for understanding China as an “engineering state.”

Reviewed by Elizabeth Economy

Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax of the Century, Its Enduring Impact, and What It Reveals About America Today

Tinline has written an astonishing, important, and beautifully told story on the roots of distrust of the federal government and the belief that a shadowy cabal of evil elites is somehow in charge.

Reviewed by Jessica T. Mathews

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What’s New in the Women, Peace, and Security Series?

Farkhondeh Akbari and Jacqui True analyze the opportunities and limitations of the WPS agenda in the context of the world’s worst erasure of women’s rights in Women, Peace, and Security in Afghanistan. This is the first book to examine the scholarly analysis of the role of women, peace, and security in Afghanistan, based on 22 years of interviews with Afghan women. Pick up this book today.

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A History of India’s Green Revolution

Kumar’s multifaceted book traces how India became self-sufficient in food grain production by the 1970s.

Reviewed by Pratap Bhanu Mehta

The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB

Corera tells the enthralling story of Vasili Mitrokhin, an unsuccessful Soviet spy whom the KGB demoted in 1956 to the role of archivist.