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The End of the World Is Just Beginning (2022) asks what happens if or when the United States stops policing the global order it established after the Second World War. The short answer is that the world as we know it will come to a grinding, potentially violent halt. The longer answer takes us on a thrilling ride through the politics and economics of trade, energy, and foreign policy.

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Peter Zeihan is an expert on global energy, demographics, and international security. Before founding his own research and forecasting agency, he worked for the US State Department and several think tanks based in Washington, DC. Zeihan’s previous books include The Absent Superpower and Disunited Nations.

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Robert J. McMahon is an American historian who is a distinguished scholar of the Cold War and US foreign relations. Currently a professor at Ohio State University, he is the author of a number of books, including The Cold War in the Third World, Colonialism and Cold War, and The Cold War on the Periphery.

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Vaclav Smil is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Manitoba, Canada. His interdisciplinary research encompasses many fields. He was once named one of Foreign Policy magazine’s Top 100 Global Thinkers. Smil is the author of more than 40 books.

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Ping-Pong Diplomacy (2014) is the tale of how China and the United States ended two decades of diplomatic silence and antagonism. This breakthrough did not originate in embassies or politicians’ offices. Instead, it began at the ping-pong table. These blinks show how a sport shaped by a communist-leaning aristocrat changed politics forever.

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Nicholas Griffin is a novelist and journalist. He has written for The Times, the Financial Times, and Foreign Policy. His published books include four novels and The Year of Dangerous Days, a history of the year 1980 in Miami.

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Winners Take All (2019) reveals the tricks and strategies used by global elites to justify preserving the status quo. It explores the ways that their endeavors to make the world a better place in fact serve to keep existing injustices and inequalities in place. And it shows how the language of change hides the role of the rich and powerful in causing the very problems they’re aiming to solve.

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Travel as a Political Act (2009, updated in 2018) is a passionate plea for an enlightened approach to travel; an approach that does away with preconceptions and lets us engage with other countries and cultures. Packed full of actionable advice and top tips to help you travel intelligently, these blinks are also studded with fascinating examples of the kinds of things you might learn along the way.

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Joshua Cooper Ramo is the author of international bestseller The Age of the Unthinkable (2009). He is fluent in Mandarin, and the World Economic Forum named him one of China’s pioneering scholars born overseas. He has written for many renowned publications including the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.

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The Geography of Bliss (2008) asks which nations are the happiest on Earth, and what it is about these countries that makes their citizens so joyful. The answers to these questions reveal some fundamental truths about our many cultural differences, as well as the many similarities and contradictions we share.

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Eric Weiner was a long-time foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, having been stationed in New Delhi, Jerusalem and Tokyo. His work covering Islamic news in Asia won him the Angel Award for outstanding journalism. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post, and his other best-selling books include The Geography of Genius.

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