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Pipe Dreams:

The Plundering of Iraq’s Oil

Wealth

Erin Banco

Never Remember:

Searching for Stalin’s Gulags

in Putin’s Russia

Masha Gessen and Misha

Friedman

High-Speed Empire:

Chinese Expansion and the

Future of Southeast Asia

Will Doig

Saudi America:

The Truth About Fracking and

How It’s Changing the World

Bethany McLean

The Nationalist Revival:

Trade, Immigration, and the

Revolt Against Globalization

John B. Judis

We Want to Negotiate:

The Secret World of Hostages

and Ransom

Joel Simon