The Biggest Foreign-Policy Books of Summer 2025

in Foreign policySummer is not only related to beach readings (although we are also fond of it). It is also a time to drill in new, decisive anecdotal addresses for our work. Below is 15 books published this summer, we expect to form a conversation on international affairs for the rest of the year, from the narrative dates of the Iranian revolution and the Israeli -Palestinian peace process to in -depth investigations into the future of emerging technologies.

TaskCentral Intelligence Agency in the twenty -first century
Tim Winner (Mariner Books, 464 p., $ 35, July 15)
In this follow -up AshWho won the 2007 National Book Award, the Politzer Winner National Security journalist, who has an unparalleled arrival, uses the CIA officials-including senior operating officials who have never spoken to the press-to write the history of the agency in the twenty-first century. Read an excerpt from the book, which we published earlier this month, here.

in Foreign policySummer is not only related to beach readings (although we are also fond of it). It is also a time to drill in new, decisive anecdotal addresses for our work. Below is 15 books published this summer, we expect to form a conversation on international affairs for the rest of the year, from the narrative dates of the Iranian revolution and the Israeli -Palestinian peace process to in -depth investigations into the future of emerging technologies.

TaskCentral Intelligence Agency in the twenty -first century
Tim Winner (Mariner Books, 464 p., $ 35, July 15)
In this follow -up AshWho won the 2007 National Book Award, the Politzer Winner National Security journalist, who has an unparalleled arrival, uses the CIA officials-including senior operating officials who have never spoken to the press-to write the history of the agency in the twenty-first century. Read an excerpt from the book, which we published earlier this month, here.

King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: The story of arrogance, illusion, and catastrophic miscalculation
Scott Anderson (Doubleday, 512 PP., 35 dollars, August 5)
The recent American military intervention in Iran renewed the public interest in the 1979 Iranian revolution, which toppled the CIA and established the Islamic Republic of Iran. On this narrative date, veteran war correspondent Scott Anderson lists the amazing fall of Shah, as well as the roles of American officials in the events that preceded it.

What is freedom of expression?Date of a dangerous idea
Fara Dabhoiwala (Belknap Press, 480 PP., 29.95 $, 5 August)
Farra Dabuhala, a historian of the University of Princeton, writes what is known as a “worrying history” of freedom of expression. It tracks how the idea of freedom of expression – and its reuse – has been invented around the world over the past 300 years, on the pretext that its origins are more related to power and profit more than democratic principles.

First between equalAmerican foreign policy in a multi -polar world
Emma Aushaord (Yale University Press, 280 p. 35 dollars, August 26)
While the United States is struggling to maintain its global priority, Emma Ausford, the FP column writer and older teammate at Stimson, returns against the liberal front play book. It is arguing that the time has come Washington to adapt to the new multi -polar world and adopt a realistic approach to foreign policy.

The second liberation: nkrumah, the general African, and the global water in the high tide
Howard W
Today, a few people know about Kwame Nkrumah, who became the first prime minister in the newly independent Ghana in 1957. But in his follow -up folder to BlackHoward Franch, a FP column writer and professor of journalism at the University of Colombia, focuses on Nkruma as one of the political leaders of the twentieth century and a revolutionary at the heart of the global black liberation movement.

breakChina’s endeavor to the future engineer
Dan WW Norton & Company, 288 PP., 31.99 dollars, August 26)
In modern China, amazing economic progress is coexisted with the wide -ranging political repression. Dan Wang, a research colleague at the Hoover History Laboratory at Stanford University, generates both facts from the “engineering mindset” in the country – and to understand China through this lens can help readers to see the United States more clearly.

And backlidesWhy do their democrats undermine
Susan C Stox (Princeton University Press, 264 p., 27.95 dollars, September 9)
Why are the democratically elected leaders attack the institutions of their democratic countries? Susan C Stox, a political scientist at the University of Chicago, is seeking to answer this question through original research in the economic and institutional roots of democratic corrosion – and provides strategies for civil society to respond.

The worst bet in the world: How did a mistake in the gambling of globalization (and what will make it correctly)
David J
David J. Lynch, Washington PostThe global economy correspondent narrates the rise and fall of globalization, and examines how the consensus of the two parties is on free trade all over the world during the Bill Clinton presidency has led to the opposite results and exceeded excessive nationalities today.

Peacemaker:
Thaant Myint-U (ww norton & company, 384 pp., 35 dollars, September 9)
U Thaant, the first Secretary -General of the United Nations, was largely forgotten. After PeacemakerThan Mint-historian, formerly responsible for the United Nations, and the grandson of the newly-raised archive to show that his grandfather had an indispensable role in defusing global conflicts, preventing nuclear escalation, and giving a voice to African countries and newly independently independent in the 1960s.

This is for everyone: The incomplete story of the global network
Tim Burners Lee (Farrar, Strauss and Jerox, 400 pages, $ 30, September 9)
The British computer scientist Tim Bernars Lee created the global web network in 1989. Now, after more than 35 years, he is considering creating it, calculating his role in transforming human societies, and providing instructions on how to harness digital technologies for good-from strength or profit-in the era of initial artificial intelligence.

Inside the position room: Theory and practice of decision -making crises
Two edited. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Krine Yarhi Milo (Oxford University Press, 512 p., 29.99 dollars, September 15)
How do world leaders make decisions at critical moments? in Inside the position roomFormer US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Krine Yarhi Milo, Dean of the College of International Affairs at Columbia University, brings together academics and policy makers to bridge the gap between theory and practice and provide an insight into the curtain.

Yesterday yesterdayLife and death and the pursuit of peace in Israel/Palestine
Hussein Aga and Robert Malley (Farrar, Strauss and Jerox, 272 pages, $ 30, September 16)
Hussein AGHA and Robert Malley, who advised the Palestinian leadership and American presidents, respectively-to write an obituary to the two-state solution. Bridges Bridges, History and Analysis to present a unique view of what happened in the Israeli -Palestinian peace process and in the period before the continuous Israel war in Gaza.

How progress ends: Technology, innovation and fate of nations
Karl Benedict Fry (Princeton University Press, 552 am, $ 35, September 16)
With the preparations for discussions on the revolutionary capabilities of Amnesty International, Karl Benedict Fry, economist and artificial intelligence expert at Oxford University, is based on 1000 years of global history of claiming that rapid technological change leads to stagnation. History has important lessons for countries that hope for innovation and prosperity in the long run.

extraction: The boundaries of green capitalism
Thea Riofrancos (ww norton & company, 288 pp, 29.99 dollars, September 23)
Lithium and other critical minerals are necessary to transport green energy. But their mining comes at a cost – both the environment and societies that are their home. Political scientist Thea Ryuvencos, who wrote about FP -extracted capitalism and mining, says, there are ways to transform mining governance and really create a just economy.

McKinama in the war: A new date
William Taubman and Philip Taubman (ww norton & company, 512 PP., 39.99 dollars, September 23)
The newly revealed documents highlighted the life of Robert S. McKinarma, US Defense Secretary during the reign of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lindon Johnson, in the biography written by the brothers William and Philip Toubman. Politician political world and predecessor New York Times The head of the Washington office, respectively, draws a picture of one of the main figures of the Vietnam War, which formed the arrogance of US foreign policy.