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Global Policy is a prestigious peer-reviewed academic journal based at the Global Policy Institute, School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University and focusing on the "point where ideas and policy meet", published in association with Wiley-Blackwell. Indexed in the SSCI, the journal was launched at the 4th Global Public Policy Network conference at the London School of Economics and Political Science on Monday 22 March 2010, with near simultaneous launch events held in Beijing and Brussels. The theme of the one-day conference was "Global Challenges: Global Impact". The General Editors are David Held, Eva-Maria Nag and Dani Rodrik. Its first issue included articles by UK Development Secretary Douglas Alexander, General David Petraeus, Head of US Central Command, Mary Kaldor and Ian Goldin and Tiffany Vogel of Oxford University. The journal's first edition defines its six main foci Globally relevant risks and collective action problems International policy coordination Normative theories of global governance The change from national-level to 'bloc'-level policy making The transition from single-polar to multipolar governance Innovations in global governance According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 0.603, ranking it 95th out of 161 journals in the category "Political Science" and 49th out of 85 journals in the category "International Relations". Notable academic contributors include Barry Eichengreen, Michele Acuto, Thomas Hale, and Chad Bown, among others. External links Official website Wiley-Blackwell References. Discover the Global Policy popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Global Policy books.
Best Seller Global Policy Books of 2024
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Underground Empire
Henry Farrell & Abraham NewmanA deeply researched investigation that reveals how the United States is like a spider at the heart of an international web of surveillance and control, which it weaves in the form ...
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Lee Kuan Yew
Graham Allison, Robert D. Blackwill & Ali WyneCNN “Book of the Week”Featuring a foreword by Henry KissingerThe grand strategist and founder of modern Singapore offers key insights and opinions on globalization, geopolitics, ec...
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Cultural Genocide
Jeffrey S. BachmanThis book explores concepts of Cultural genocide, its definitions, place in international law, the systems and methods that contribute to its manifestations, and its occurrences. ...
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Illicit
Moisés NaímA groundbreaking investigation of how illicit commerce is changing the world by transforming economies, reshaping politics, and capturing governments.In this fascinating and compre...
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Collapse
Jared DiamondIn Jared Diamond’s followup to the PulitzerPrize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create ...
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Why Nations Fail
Daron Acemoglu & James A. RobinsonBrilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and...
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To Build a Better World
Philip Zelikow & Condoleezza RiceA deeply researched international history and "exemplary study" (New York Times Book Review) of how a divided world ended and our present world was fashioned, as the world drifts t...
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Thank You for Being Late
Thomas L. Friedman#1 New York Times Bestseller Los Angeles Times BestsellerOne of The Wall Street Journal's 10 Books to Read Now One of Kirkus Reviews's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year One of P...
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The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy
Pietra RivoliThe keys to global business success, as taught by a Tshirt's journey The Travels of a TShirt in the Global Economy is a criticallyacclaimed narrative that illuminates the globaliz...
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Power Systems
Noam Chomsky & David BarsamianA compelling new set of interviews on our changing and turbulent times with Noam Chomsky, one of the world's foremost thinkersIn this new collection of conversations, conducted fro...
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The Avoidable War
Kevin RuddA war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is no longer unthinkable. The relationship between the US and China, the world...
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What We Say Goes
Noam Chomsky & David BarsamianAn indispensable set of interviews on foreign and domestic issues with the bestselling author of Hegemony or Survival, "America's most useful citizen." (The Boston Globe)In this ne...
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Prisoners of Geography
Tim MarshallIn this New York Times bestseller, an awardwinning journalist uses ten maps of crucial regions to explain the geopolitical strategies of the world powers“fans of geography, history...
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The Perfect Weapon
David E. SangerNOW AN HBO® DOCUMENTARY FROM AWARDWINNING DIRECTOR JOHN MAGGIO “An importantand deeply soberingnew book about cyberwarfare” (Nicholas Kristof, New York Times), now updated wi...
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Rage
Bob WoodwardRage is an unprecedented and intimate tour de force of new reporting on the Trump presidency facing a global pandemic, economic disaster and racial unrest.Woodward, the #1 internat...
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The Future of Power
Joseph S. Nye, Jr.The Future of Power examines what it means to be forceful and effective in a world in which the traditional ideas of state power have been upended by technology, and rogue actors. ...
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Introduction to International and Global Studies, Third Edition
Shawn C. Smallman & Kimberley BrownShawn C. Smallman and Kimberley Brown's popular introductory textbook for undergraduates in international and global studies is now released in a substantially revised and updated ...
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World on Fire
Amy ChuaThe reigning consensus holds that the combination of free markets and democracy would transform the third world and sweep away the ethnic hatred and religious zealotry associated w...
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Tomorrow, the World
Stephen WertheimA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year“Even in these dismal times genuinely important books do occasionally make their appearance…You really ought to read it…A tour de force…While...
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Currency Wars
James RickardsIn 1971, President Nixon imposed national price controls and took the United States off the gold standard, an extreme measure intended to end an ongoing currency war that had des...
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Corporate Crime and Punishment
Cornelia WollThe geopolitics of American law enforcement and how it changed corporate criminal accountability in other countriesOver the past decade, many of the world’s biggest companies have ...
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Sledgehammer
David FriedmanThe Trump administration’s peace agreements in the Middle East were the greatest foreign policy accomplishment in decades. Now, for the first time, his ambassador to Israel explain...
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No Trade Is Free
Robert LighthizerAmerica is the first country in history to fund the rise of its rivals. We need to stop now, before it’s too late. One of the most consequential U.S. Trade Representatives in our h...
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The Hundred-Year Marathon
Michael PillsburyOne of the U.S. government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country's rise – and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us as t...
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Empire
Niall FergusonA bestselling historian shows how the British Empire created the modern world, in a book lauded as "a rattling good tale" (Wall Street Journal) and "popular history at its best" (W...
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That Used to Be Us
Thomas L. Friedman & Michael MandelbaumAmerica is in trouble. We face four major challenges on which our future depends, and we are failing to meet themand if we delay any longer, soon it will be too late for us to pass...
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The Geopolitics of the Global Energy Transition
Manfred Hafner & Simone TagliapietraThe world is currently undergoing an historic energy transition, driven by increasingly stringent decarbonisation policies and rapid advances in lowcarbon technologies. The largesc...
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Overbooked
Elizabeth BeckerTourism, fast becoming the largest global business, employs one out of twelve persons and produces $6.5 trillion of the world’s economy. In a groundbreaking book, Elizabeth Becker ...
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Global Discontents
Noam Chomsky & David BarsamianIn a compelling new set of interviews, Noam Chomsky identifies the “dry kindling” of discontent around the world that could soon catch fire.In wideranging discussions with David Ba...
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The Global Vatican
Francis RooneyFrom the centurieslong prejudices against Catholics in America, to the efforts of Fascism, Communism, and modern terrorist organizations to “break the cross and spill the wine,” th...
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Reckless Endangerment
Gretchen Morgenson & Joshua RosnerA Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year The New York Times's Pulitzer Prizewinning columnist reveals how the financial meltd...
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2011 Global Food Policy Report
International Food Policy Research InstituteThe 2011 Global Food Policy Report is a new annual IFPRI publication that provides a comprehensive, researchbased analysis of major food policy challenges at the global, regional, ...
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New Cold Wars
David E. SangerThree decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry against the other two great nuclear powersXi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s ...
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Monsoon
Robert D. KaplanOn the world maps common in America, the Western Hemisphere lies front and center, while the Indian Ocean region all but disappears. This convention reveals the geopolitical focus ...
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Strategic Vision
Zbigniew BrzezinskiEminent scholar Zbigniew Brzezinski's New York Times bestselling blueprint for American foreign policy strategy in the twentyfirst century The world today faces a crisis of power, ...
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The World Is Flat 3.0
Thomas L. FriedmanThis Independence Day edition of The World is Flat 3.0 includes an an exclusive preview of That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come ...
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Stress Test
Timothy F. GeithnerNew York Times BestsellerWashington Post BestsellerLos Angeles Times BestsellerStress Test is the story of Tim Geithner’s education in financial crises. As president of ...
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Trade Is Not a Four-Letter Word
Fred P. Hochberg“A sprightly and cleareyed testimonial to the value of globalization” (The Wall Street Journal) as seen through six surprising everyday goodsthe taco salad, the Honda Odyssey, the ...
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Dead Aid
Dambisa MoyoIn the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in developmentrelated aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa. Has this assistance improved the lives of Africans? No....
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Global Discord
Paul TuckerHow to sustain an international system of cooperation in the midst of geopolitical struggleCan the international economic and legal system survive today’s fractured geopolitics? De...
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Imperial Ambitions
Noam Chomsky & David BarsamianIn this first collection of interviews since the bestselling 911, our foremost intellectual activist examines crucial new questions of U.S. foreign policyTimely, urgent, and powerf...
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Global Energy Politics
Thijs Van de Graaf & Benjamin K. SovacoolEver since the Industrial Revolution energy has been a key driver of world politics. From the oil crises of the 1970s to today’s rapid expansion of renewable energy sources, every ...
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Beijing Rules
Bethany AllenAn acclaimed journalist on contemporary China lays bare the country's twodecade quest for global dominance and how the Chinese Communist Party coopted what Western leaders have lon...
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The World in Conflict
John AndrewsAn authoritative, incisive explanation of the causes and current status of hostilities around the world.The world today rests on increasingly unstable fault lin...
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Bully of Asia
Steven W. MosherThe Once and Future Hegemon In a world bristling with dangers, only one enemy poses a truly mortal challenge to the United States and the peaceful and prosperous world that America...
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A World Safe for Democracy
G. John IkenberryA sweeping account of the rise and evolution of liberal internationalism in the modern era"The crowning achievement of [Ikenberry's] decadeslong work explaining and defending ...
