Kenichi Ohmae, The End of the Nation State: The Rise of Regional Economies. Shintaro Ishihara, The Japan That Can Say No: Why Japan Will Be First Among Equals Written at the peak of Japan’s property bubble, Shintaro argued that Japan was destined to become the next great superpower. Third, by crying wolf so many times, Ehrlich numbed many into not buying actual, real environmental threats.Ĥ. Second, by garnering so much attention by being wrong, he contributed to the belief that alarmism was the best way to get people to pay attention to the environment. The first of many, many, many books in which Ehrlich argued that the world’s population was growing at an unsustainable rate, outstripping global resources and leading to inevitable mass starvation. Here, Carr argues that nationalism is a passing fad and that eventually the number of nation-states in the world will be reduced to less than twenty. Carr’s Twenty Years’ Crisis is one of the best books about international relations ever written. Writing this in 1908, he was historically, spectacularly wrong.Ģ. He then argued that an enlightened citizenry would glom onto this fact and render war obsolete. He argued that the benefits from international trade vastly exceeded the economic benefits of empire, and therefore the economic motive for empire no longer existed. This book has been widely misinterpreted, so let’s be clear about what Angell got right and got wrong.
So, let’s be clear on the criteria: to earn a place on this list, we’re talking about: Smply putting down books by bad people - Mein Kampf, etc. In one sense, this question is difficult to answer, in that truly bad books are never read. So, rather than replicate Steve, let’s have some fun - what are the ten worst books in international relations? The thing is, Steve Walt poached a lot of the books I would have named on my own list of top ten international relations books (if there’s real demand for a "top 10" books in international political economy specifically, let me know in the comments and I’ll put one up next week).
It’s "top ten" week here at Foreign Policy, and the powers that be have asked me to chip in with a list of my own.
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