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1.International Order and the Future of World Politics from: Cambridge University Press July 08, 1999
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2.On Global Order: Power, Values, and the Constitution of International Society by: Andrew Hurrell November 08, 2007
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3.Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations by: Michael Walzer July 07, 2006
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This book revived interest to just war theory and created influential debate about moral permissibility of war. Walzer develops his own theory about just war theory. It can be summarized as: War is just when it is fought only as a) self-defence b) in order to create country for a nation under foreign rule c) counter-intervention in order to repeal effect of original foreign intervention d) humanitarian intervention to stop grave an widespread human right violations. Walzer stresses also importance of rule of non-combatant immunity. Book is easy to read, without difficult terminology and it has many illustrative historical examples. I recommend this book to all who are interested in morality of war.

4.Terrorism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by: Charles Townshend October 10, 2002
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This book is very interesting and is a brief introduction that makes you want to go out and learn more. However it is written like a research paper and occasionally you do have to go back and reread sentences to get the ideas fully. It's size makes it perfect for reading on the tube or the bus, however it'll have to be a quiet tube or bus so you can understand it.

5.The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by: Nassim Nicholas Taleb February 28, 2008
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I originally bought this book last year, I read about half of it but gave up in disgust at the general pretentiousness and repetition. I picked it up again this year after the credit crunch had hit and it seemed to be a different book, funny with some insight into current market turmoil! Assuming the book hadn't changed while on my shelf, presumably I had. The core idea is very simple, Gaussian (Normal/ bell curves) distributions are overused in finance and they critically underestimate the chances of high impact relatively rare events which are best modelled as Power laws (see the The Long Tail: How Endless Choice is Creating Unlimited Demand for another take). Taleb covers the slightly strange beat where finance/ statistics/ epistemology ... Read More:

6.After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000 by: John Darwin March 06, 2008
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John Darwin's canvas is a broad one but he controls his subject so well that the overall perspective never gets lost. It is all too easy to see the history of the world from an European viewpoint. This book helps us to see it from a global viewpoint and to understand the world the way it is now. The fact that the book is so elegantly written is a considerable bonus!

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