Best of the Best: The World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh's Top Books of the Year
Each week, the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh brings you the best analysis and opinion on current global issues. This week - as a special supplement to our Weekly World News Update - the Council has drawn on many of its regular sources to bring you a selection of the top books of 2014.
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Global Hotspots
Why We Lost: A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, Daniel P. Bolger
China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants are Building a New Empire in Africa, Howard W. French
No Good Men among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes, Anand Gopal
Without You, There is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite, Suki Kim
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan, Jenny Nordberg
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, Evan Osnos
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia,Peter Pomerantsev
Geopolitics
The Myth of the Strong Leader: Political Leadership in the Modern Age, Archie Brown
The Contest of the Century: The New Era of Competition with China - and How America Can Win, Geoff Dyer
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy, Francis Fukuyama
World Order, Henry Kissinger
National Insecurity: American Leadership in an Age of Fear, David Rothkopf
Secrets and Betrayal
The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames, Kai Bird
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State, Glenn Greenwald
Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea, Jang Jin-Sung
A Spy among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal, Ben Macintyre
Historical Analysis
Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence, Karen Armstrong
Gaza: A History, Jean-Pierre Filiu
Congo: The Epic History of a People, David Van Reybrouck
The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century, David Reynolds
The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall, Mary Elise Sarotte
The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931, Adam Tooze
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David, Lawrence Wright
Also Notable
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War, Robert M. Gates
The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World, Russell Gold
Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War, James Risen
The Tyranny of Silence, Flemming Rose
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon, Kim Zetter
