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    The Evolution of Modern Political Power

    Jonathan Ira Levy traces the complicated interplay between states, global capital, and civil society over the past century.
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    Read More Summer 2023 Reading List

    PS Commentators share books that have impressed them lately, and say why you should consider adding them to your summer reading list.
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    The Sense of an Ending

    James Livingston surveys the intellectual terrain created by the transition from capitalism as we have come to know it.
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    The Russian Way of War

    Adam Zamoyski draws a historical thread from the rout of Napoleon’s forces in 1812 to the invasion of Ukraine today.
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    The Microchips Are Down

    Edoardo Campanella recounts how semiconductors became both economically and geopolitically central to today's world.
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    China’s New Direction

    Paola Subacchi considers the implications of a systemically important country turning its back on the system.
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    PS Commentators’ Best Reads in 2022

    PS editors ask Project Syndicate contributors to select the book that resonated with them the most over the past year.
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    The Contested Fed

    James Livingston reviews three books that, each in its own way, reveal a central truth about the world’s leading central bank.
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    The Sanctions Trap

    Brigitte Granville considers the history of the “economic weapon” and whether it is as effective as many assume.
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    America and the Promised Land

    Ivan Krastev & Leonard Benardo consider how the idea of Israel has featured in US foreign policy over time.
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    What’s Breaking Democracy?

    William H. Janeway traces the historical roots of the West’s current problems to the rise of neoliberalism in the 1970s.
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    Understanding the US-China Rivalry

    Edoardo Campanella

    US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan may have widened the divide between the United States and China even further. But the Sino-American rivalry has been building for years, if not decades, alongside each power's evolving role in the international system.

     reviews five recent books on the recent history, and worrisome future, of the Sino-American relationship.

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