I'm leaving the country, so go read stuff

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 1:41pm

Your humble blogger will be MIA for the next few days, as he is attending the annual meeting of the Japanese Association of International Relations in Kobe, Japan for the next few days. 

Let me assure my readers that my decision to flee leave the country has nothing whatsoever to do with recent events.  It's just a very, very, very, very happy coincidence. 

While I'm gone, let me recomend reading Evan Feigenbaum's new Council on Foreign Relations report, "The United States in the New Asia."  I'll certainly be reading it on the flight.  The latest issue of The National Interest is also worth a gander. 

And now a request from my readers -- what's worth reading that I haven't commented on?  In other words, what should I be reading? 

 



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worth reading...

Pop Apocalypse - Hilarious - good airplane reading.

Power and Plenty

Give Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium, by Findlay and O'Rourke, a look.

Bruce Mazower

No Enchanted Palace --- about the intellectual underpinnings of the UN

Inside CIAs Private World:

Inside CIAs Private World: Declassified Articles from the Agency's Internal Journal 1055-1992, by H. Bradford Westerfield.

Good Book...Terrible Title

Paul Blustein has done the impossible - write an entertaining book about trade talks. I'm dead serious, it really is good! "Misadventures of the Most Favored Nations" is Blustein's take on the WTO and the Doha Round. Good writing, brief and great perspective and insight.