International Relations

In the spring of 1988, a request landed on Daniel Wagner's desk in lower Manhattan: would the world's largest insurance company guarantee payment for a shipment of cigarette rolling papers to Saddam Hussein?He said yes. Saddam paid.So began his nearly four decades in political risk insurance —...

THE TRUE STORY OF JOURNALISTS WHO UNCOVERED A NEW SECRET WEAPON THAT CAN STRIKE THROUGH WALLS WITHOUT LEAVING A TRACE... In the fall of 2017, reports of mysterious 'sonic' attacks on U.S. diplomats began emerging from Havana, Cuba. Victims were struck down in their homes and offices. They...

He was built to lead. He just didn’t know it.Nathan Hale is the quintessential American success story. A carpenter’s son from northern Illinois, he was raised on the philosophy of "measure twice, cut once." His political rise was built on radical honesty: a man who lost three primaries...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the Moon’s permanently dark craters, frozen water could become drinking water, breathable oxygen, and fuel for journeys deeper into space. On a few sunlit ridges, whoever builds first may gain an advantage that is difficult to dislodge. America and...

What is Europe? As the old world order crumbles, it has never been more important to understand the epic story of Europe – the world’s smallest and largest, oldest and newest continent. Europe is at once vast and intricate: you can have breakfast in Germany, coffee in the Netherlands and...

How sabotage and disorder threaten the fragile network of undersea cables and pipelines that makes modern life possible—and how it may already be drawing the world into an all-out underwater war. The world depends on a tangle of underwater tubes on the ocean floor. Every day undersea cables...

A work of true crime following one American family’s search for answers after a 1984 murder in war-torn Beirut, where the Iranian revolution collided with the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, setting off the geopolitical conflagration that burns to this day On January 18, 1984, Malcolm Kerr...

Grappling with centuries-old feuds, defeating a shrewd insurgency, and navigating the sometimes paralyzing bureaucracy of the U.S. military are issues that prompt sleepless nights for both policy makers in Washington and soldiers at war, albeit for different reasons. Few, however, have dealt...

In this second edition, newly-declassified documents exclusively reveal Washington’s decades-long cover-up of the truth about the assassination of U.S. Ambassador Spike Dubs.For the first time, Murder In Room 117 reveals the findings of the lead investigator in the case, conclusions Washington...

WHAT IF BORDERS DISAPPEARED?Imagine a world where a person could move from one country to another to live and work without waiting years for a visa, quota, or government approval.Would that world be richer—or more unstable?Would workers gain new opportunities, or would wages collapse? Would...

'A sizzling account'The Times A hidden network sustains our world, but it's no longer safe. Every button, house, nation and financial market depends on a massive, unseen web of cables across the ocean floor. Power cables and pipelines on the seafloor provide the world with energy. This is the...

What can we learn from ten wars that have changed world history? A ridiculously funny new book for grownups from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of A History of Britain in Ten Enemies. War: what is it good for? Absolutely something, surely, or we wouldn't keep doing it. Throughout the...

The war with Iran began in 1996, when a foreign policy document was written for Netanyahu by American analysts who then spent the following decade getting themselves appointed to the American government to implement it. Iraq. Destroyed. Syria. Gutted. Hezbollah. Degraded. Iran. Now under direct...

A vital argument for a generation trapped between freedom and survival. The Price of Being Human is an essay about the one problem humanity has learned to live with.Every person born into this world inherits a debt they never agreed to. Food, water, and shelter are not privileges. They are the...

Common Sense 2.0 related our current political crisis to that of 1775-76 when Thomas Paine recommended independence from Britain in the original Common Sense. That independence was declared on July 4, 1776. Included in that declaration were mandates for America being an independent and...