Middle: Some political books help shape a national narrative, such as Lepore’s survey of history in America since 1492. Right: Based on a GOP document that was public, 'Contract with America ...

Booklovers have long debated whether politics belong in online book communities. Readers and authors, including Jodi Picoult, tell us their thoughts.

Raluca Viman-Miller, Ph.D. Dlynn Armstrong Williams, Ph.D. The Basics of Global Politics is an introduction to world politics for any beginner political science student. This book reviews domestic and ...

In the 2016 postscript DeWitt makes the real-world political and policy implications of this explicit, writing that “It’s not hard to imagine a world where the effect of the book on what has ...

Fareed Zakaria’s most recent book is “Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World.” THE SHADOWS OF EMPIRE How Imperial History Shapes Our World By Samir Puri 384 pp. Pegasus Books. $28.95.

Combining insights from political theory, history, and a large dose of imagination, the book identifies the complex forces that might steer the world toward a more integrated and functional system of ...

Hans Morgenthau’s “Politics Among Nations” taught thinkers from George F. Kennan to Henry Kissinger to put national interest above idealism. America is still learning that lesson.

Below, he shares the books that have shaped his worldview: The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics by Hedley Bull (Columbia, $36). I came to know Hedley in the 1970s at Oxford.