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WORLD POLICY INSTITUTE BOOKS Older book
publications by World Policy Institute Fellows
and staff members are listed below. BOOKS 2007: WPI Senior Fellow Stephanie Griest’s guidebook, 100 Places Every Woman Should Go (Traveler's Tales, 2007) won the GOLD PRIZE for Best Travel Book of 2007 in the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation's Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition. WPI Senior Fellow Mira Kamdar’s Planet India (2007) launched Scribner’s new imprint in India, where it is near the top of the Best Seller list. "This book is an absolute MUST read. It's by far the best book on India and globalization to date and on top of that it's a fun read." (Clyde Prestowitz, author of Rogue Nation and Three Billion New Capitalists). More Praise from Asia Times Jul. 28, 2007 WPI Board Member Zachary Karabell’s Peace Be Upon You: Fourteen Centuries of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Coexistence in the Middle East (Knopf, 2007). “Historians have so often focused on religious conflict--crusades, jihads, pogroms--that Karabell fears many readers have forgotten how often the devout have lived in peace with those of different faiths.” (Booklist, starred review) New In Paperback WPI Executive Director Michele Wucker’s Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right (PublicAffairs, August 2007). "A forcefully argued and informative book...both correct and important" –/Washington Post Book World/ A Book World “Best Nonfiction of 2006” Selection WPI Senior Fellow Silvana Paternostro’s memoir, My Colombian War: A Journey Through the Country I Left Behind (Henry Holt, 2007) was published in November 2007. “An intensely personal memoir, it demonstrates at the same time a firm grasp of the political, economic, and social realities that provide the background against which the headline news of Colombia in 2007, and 2008 and succeeding years, will continue to unfold. It makes fascinating reading.”—David Fromkin, Professor of International Relations, Boston University. Read a preview in the September 16, 2007 New York Times Magazine “Lives” column WPI Senior Fellow Nina Khruscheva’s new book, Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics was published in November 2007 by Yale University Press. Ian Bremmer,"The National Factor in the Former Soviet Union: Reasons, Forces, and Consequences,"; in Jakub M. Godzimirski, ed., The Russian Federation: Ten Years of Statehood–What Now? (Oslo: Norway Institute for International Affairs, 2003) Karl Meyer's The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland was a finalist for the 2003 Gelber Prize. Silvana Paternostro, "Three Days with Gabo"; in Latin 25 American Writers at Work: The Paris Review, Modern Library/Random House, New York, 2003. The Bridge to a Middle Class (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003), edited by Sherle Schwenninger and Walter Russell Mead. William D. Hartung, "The Hidden Costs of War: How the Bush Doctrine is Undermining Democracy in Iraq and Democracy in America," in Irwin Abrams and Wang Gungwu, editors, The Iraq War and Its Consequences: Thoughts of Nobel Laureates and Eminent Scholars (World Scientific Press, 2003). Sherle Schwenninger, "Rebalancing U.S.-European Relations," in George Papandreou, editor, Kastellorizo Report on EU-U.S. Relations (Brussels: Palgrave Press, 2003). William D. Hartung, How Much Are You Making on the War, Daddy? A Quick and Dirty Guide to War Profiteering in the Bush Administration, NationBooks, January 2004. Caroline Moser and Cathy McIlwaine, Encounters with Violence in Latin America: Urban Poor Perceptions from Colombia and Guatemala, London and New York: Routledge, 2004. Ian M. Cuthbertson wrote "Peering into the Abyss: Understanding and Combating NBC Terrorism," in the book edited by himself and Heinz Gaertner, The Ties That Bind: The Future of Trans-Atlantic Security in an Age of Terrorism, (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
Ian M. Cuthbertson wrote a new introduction to Alfred T.
Mahan's Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783 (New
York: Barnes & Noble, 2004). WORLD POLICY JOURNAL BOOKS Books that developed out of articles published in World Policy Journal
1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs: The Election that Changed
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The Consequences of the Peace: The New Internationalism and American
Foreign Policy
American Invulnerable: The Quest for Absolute Security from 1812 to
Star War “Two Wars or
One? Drugs, Guerillas, and Colombia’s New Violencia,”
Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia
Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians and the Struggle for
Hispaniola
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