Current Affairs, Politics & Economics
From Jonathan Sumption’s The Challenges of Democracy and Daron Acemoglu’s What Happened to Liberal Democracy?, to Paris Marx’s Hyperscale and Eleanor Drage’s What If We Got AI Right?, our Current Affairs books cover geopolitics, the rule of law and the generative technology shaping our world. Essential for readers interested in international politics, journalism and technology.
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
David Harvey
Following on from The Enigma of Capital, the world's leading Marxist thinker explores the hidden workings of capital and reveals the forces that w…
Surviving the Debt Storm
Leigh Skene
How the policies being followed by governments and central banks risk leading to an even greater economic mess – and how that can be avoided
The XX Factor
Alison Wolf
The reality of female professional success in today's world – a challenge to long-held assumptions about female achievement and sexual inequality.
How Asia Works
Joe Studwell
A provocative look at what has worked – and what hasn't – in East Asian economics, now in paperback
Feeding Frenzy
Paul McMahon
A passionate argument that asks 'can the world feed itself?' Comparable to Jared Diamond in its compelling and accessible narrative style.
The Tail
Paul Marshall
Paul Marshall is a passionate and brilliantly effective crusader for extending opportunity to the most disadvantaged. [This] book is a compelling, at…
Events, Dear Boy, Events
Ruth Winstone
Brings twentieth-century British politics vividly to life and reveals perspectives on the tumultuous events it sought to control, the changes it resis…
The Arab Spring and the Gulf States
Mohamed Althani
The most challenging question today for the citizens of any country in the Gulf region is whether it is heading in the right direction to become a dur…
The Economist: Megachange
Daniel Franklin
Building on the hugely successful annual Economist 'The World in …' publications, this essential guide to the twenty-first century captures…
Why Nations Fail
Daron Acemoglu
A provocative bestseller that explains why the world is divided into nations with wildly differing levels of prosperity
Africa's Future
Duncan Clarke
One of the world's leading strategists on global oil exploration puts forward a unique reformulation of Africa's economic past, present and fu…
On the Fault Line
Terence McNamee
Essential insight into the conflicts waiting to happen in every country
The American Phoenix
Charles Dumas
Why we are in for another economic bust and who will come out of it best – and worst – and why
The Tyranny of Choice
Renata Salecl
A brilliant study on the nature of choice, and how limitless freedom can lead to despair
Off Message
Bob Marshall-Andrews
Tony Blair's least favourite colleague casts a mordant eye on whips and rebels, wars and liberties, spin and patronage, and expenses and legacies.
Democracy
Paul Ginsborg
Despite the global expansion of democracy, a looming threat has appeared in the countries that claim to love it most: declining electoral turnout, dim…
Runaway World
Anthony Giddens
'Before the current global era it is impossible to imagine that comparable events [like September 11] could have occurred, reflecting as they do o…
The Wonga Coup
Adam Roberts
In July 2008 Eton-educated British mercenary Simon Mann was sentenced to 34 years in prison for attempting to overthrow the government of Equatorial G…