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Why should we think in terms of networks? What do we
learn from seeing things this way?
The networks that surround and enmesh us, from
Facebook to ISIS to the Internet itself, vary widely
The Chessboard and the Web
in form and function. We have learned to categorize
human and state interactions into different types of Strategies of Connection in a Networked World
games, but we have not learned to classify networks
in ways that allow us to understand, design, use, and Anne-Marie Slaughter
manage them for different purposes. In my book I
describe three main types: task networks, resilience
From a renowned foreign-policy expert, a new
networks, and scale networks. These are not just
paradigm for strategy in the twenty-first century
spontaneous human interactions. They are tools we
A conversation can use.
with Anne-Marie
In 1961, Thomas Schelling’s The Strategy of Conflict
Slaughter used game theory to radically reenvision the U.S.-Soviet
How can networks guide strategy?
relationship and establish the basis of international rela-
Over centuries, governments have come to see the tions for the rest of the Cold War. Now, Anne-Marie
world as a chessboard, or perhaps a Go board, on Slaughter—one of Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global
which great powers play out endless rivalries. They Thinkers from 2009 to 2012, and the first woman to
craft strategies of conflict and competition. An serve as director of the State Department Office of
understanding of different kinds of networks allows us Policy Planning—applies network theory to develop
also to craft strategies of connection, figuring out what a new set of strategies for the post–Cold War world.
or whom to connect, how to connect them, and for While chessboard-style competitive relationships still
what purpose. exist—U.S.-Iranian relations, for example—many other
situations demand that we look not at individual enti-
ties but at their links to one another. We must learn to
Is network thinking limited to governments, or can my understand, shape, and build on those connections.
organization use it too?
Concise and accessible, based on real-world situations,
Chessboard actors are states; statecraft is the preserve on a lucid understanding of network science, and on a
of the powerful and privileged few. Web actors include clear taxonomy of strategies, this will be a go-to resource
individual government officials, corporations, civic for anyone looking for a new way to think about strategy
leaders, and criminals; webcraft is thus a far broader in politics or business.
field of endeavor. General Stanley McCrystal turned
his special operations forces into a task network—a
ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER is President and CEO of New
team of teams—to counter ISIS with great success. America, former Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State
Any leader can create similar networks to accomplish Department, and former Dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson
specific goals. School of Public and International Affairs. Her previous books
include A New World Order and Unfinished Business: Women Men
Work Family, named one of the best books of 2015 by the Washington
Post, the Economist, and NPR. She lives in Princeton, NJ.
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Why should we think in terms of networks? What do we
learn from seeing things this way?
The networks that surround and enmesh us, from
Facebook to ISIS to the Internet itself, vary widely
The Chessboard and the Web
in form and function. We have learned to categorize
human and state interactions into different types of Strategies of Connection in a Networked World
games, but we have not learned to classify networks
in ways that allow us to understand, design, use, and Anne-Marie Slaughter
manage them for different purposes. In my book I
describe three main types: task networks, resilience
From a renowned foreign-policy expert, a new
networks, and scale networks. These are not just
paradigm for strategy in the twenty-first century
spontaneous human interactions. They are tools we
A conversation can use.
with Anne-Marie
In 1961, Thomas Schelling’s The Strategy of Conflict
Slaughter used game theory to radically reenvision the U.S.-Soviet
How can networks guide strategy?
relationship and establish the basis of international rela-
Over centuries, governments have come to see the tions for the rest of the Cold War. Now, Anne-Marie
world as a chessboard, or perhaps a Go board, on Slaughter—one of Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global
which great powers play out endless rivalries. They Thinkers from 2009 to 2012, and the first woman to
craft strategies of conflict and competition. An serve as director of the State Department Office of
understanding of different kinds of networks allows us Policy Planning—applies network theory to develop
also to craft strategies of connection, figuring out what a new set of strategies for the post–Cold War world.
or whom to connect, how to connect them, and for While chessboard-style competitive relationships still
what purpose. exist—U.S.-Iranian relations, for example—many other
situations demand that we look not at individual enti-
ties but at their links to one another. We must learn to
Is network thinking limited to governments, or can my understand, shape, and build on those connections.
organization use it too?
Concise and accessible, based on real-world situations,
Chessboard actors are states; statecraft is the preserve on a lucid understanding of network science, and on a
of the powerful and privileged few. Web actors include clear taxonomy of strategies, this will be a go-to resource
individual government officials, corporations, civic for anyone looking for a new way to think about strategy
leaders, and criminals; webcraft is thus a far broader in politics or business.
field of endeavor. General Stanley McCrystal turned
his special operations forces into a task network—a
ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER is President and CEO of New
team of teams—to counter ISIS with great success. America, former Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State
Any leader can create similar networks to accomplish Department, and former Dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson
specific goals. School of Public and International Affairs. Her previous books
include A New World Order and Unfinished Business: Women Men
Work Family, named one of the best books of 2015 by the Washington
Post, the Economist, and NPR. She lives in Princeton, NJ.
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The Six Day War
The Breaking of the Middle East
Guy Laron
An enthralling, big-picture history that
examines the Six Day War, its causes,
and its enduring consequences against its
global context
One fateful week in June 1967 redrew the map of the
Middle East. Many scholars have documented how
the Six Day War unfolded, but little has been done
to explain why the conflict happened at all. As we
approach its fiftieth anniversary, Guy Laron refutes
the widely accepted belief that the war was merely the
result of regional friction, revealing the crucial roles
played by American and Soviet policies in the face of
an encroaching global economic crisis, and restoring
Syria’s often overlooked centrality to events leading up
to the hostilities.
The Six Day War effectively sowed the seeds for the
downfall of Arab nationalism, the growth of Islamic
extremism, and the animosity between Jews and
Palestinians. In this important new work, Laron’s fresh
interdisciplinary perspective and extensive archival
research offer a significant reassessment of a conflict—
and the trigger-happy generals behind it—that continues
to shape the modern world.
GUY LARON is lecturer in international relations, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, and has been a visiting scholar at the
University of Maryland, Northwestern University, and Oxford. He is
the author of Origins of the Suez Crisis and lives in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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The End of Europe
Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age
James Kirchick
The disintegration of Europe’s post–Cold War
consensus in the face of anti-Semitism, populist
nationalism, and territorial aggression
Once the world’s bastion of liberal, democratic values,
Europe is now having to confront demons it thought it
had laid to rest. The old pathologies of anti-Semitism,
fascism, populist nationalism, and territorial aggression
are threatening to tear the European postwar consen-
sus apart. In riveting dispatches from this unfolding
tragedy, James Kirchick shows us the shallow disingenu-
ousness of the leaders who pushed for the “Brexit” vote,
talks with the mild-mannered former accountant who is
the charming face of Hungary’s neofascist Jobbik party,
examines how a vast migrant wave is exacerbating ten-
sions between Europeans and their Muslim minorities,
explores the rising anti-Semitism that causes Jewish
schools and synagogues in France and Germany to
resemble armed bunkers, and describes how Russian
imperial ambitions are destabilizing nations from
“James Kirchick is a gloomily brilliant
Estonia to Ukraine.
observer of European affairs—panoramic
Based on extensive firsthand reporting, this book is a in his survey, precise in his details
provocative, disturbing look at a continent in unex- and anecdotes, severe and persuasive
pected crisis. in his judgments, always lucid,
always alert.”—Paul Berman, author
of The Flight of the Intellectuals
JAMES KIRCHICK is a fellow at the Foreign Policy Initiative in and Power and the Idealists
Washington and a correspondent for the Daily Beast. His articles
have appeared in the Washington Post, the Weekly Standard, the
Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Policy. He lives in Washington, DC.
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Claretta
Mussolini’s Last Lover
R. J. B. Bosworth
A master historian illuminates the tumultuous
relationship of Il Duce and his young lover
Claretta, whose extraordinarily intimate diaries
only recently have become available
Few deaths are as gruesome and infamous as those of
Benito Mussolini, Italy’s fascist dictator, and Claretta
(or Clara) Petacci, his much-younger lover. Shot dead
by Italian partisans after attempting to flee the country
in 1945, the couple’s bodies were then hanged upside
down in Milan’s main square in ignominious pub-
lic display. This provocative book is the first to mine
Clara’s extensive diaries, family correspondence, and
other sources to discover how the last in Mussolini’s
long line of lovers became his intimate and how she
came to her violent fate at his side.
R. J. B. Bosworth explores the social climbing of
Claretta’s family, her naïve and self-interested com-
mitment to fascism, her diary’s graphically detailed
accounts of sexual life with Mussolini, and much more. Also by R. J. B. Bosworth:
Brimful of new and arresting information, the book Whispering City
Rome and Its Histories
sheds intimate light not only on an ordinary-extraor-
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dinary woman living at the heart of Italy’s totalitarian Italian Venice
fascist state but also on Mussolini himself. A History
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“[Italian Venice] is a work far more
R. J. B. BOSWORTH is senior research fellow in history, Jesus
colorful and enjoyable than the usual
College, Oxford. A renowned Italianist, he is the author of more
dust-dry tomes on Venice . . . Bosworth
than two dozen books on Mussolini, fascism, and Italy’s twentieth-
has previously published exemplary
century experience. He lives in Oxford, UK.
works on Mussolini and on Rome, and
this one on the real, living Venice is
equally fascinating.”—Tobias Jones,
Sunday Times, on Italian Venice
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George Washington
The Wonder of the Age
John Rhodehamel
A much-needed concise biography of America’s
first president
As editor of the award-winning Library of America col-
lection of George Washington’s writings and a curator
of the great man’s original papers, John Rhodehamel
has established himself as an authority of our nation’s
preeminent founding father. Rhodehamel examines
George Washington as a public figure, arguing that
the man—who first achieved fame in his early twen-
ties—is inextricably bound to his mythic status. Solidly
grounded in Washington’s papers and exemplary in
its brevity, this approachable biography is a superb
introduction to the leader whose name has become
synonymous with America.
JOHN RHODEHAMEL is the former archivist of Mount Vernon
and curator of American historical manuscripts at the Huntington
Library. He is editor of George Washington: Writings and The
American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence, 1775–
1783. He lives in Newport Beach, CA. “John Rhodehamel, who has written
many books about George Washington,
here conveys his deepest and most
enduring view of the man. In strong,
straightforward prose, he tells Washington’s
extraordinary story, without bravura
flourishes or exaggerations. It is a
memorable reading experience.”—Thomas
Fleming, author of The Great Divide:
The Conflict Between Washington and
Jefferson That Defined a Nation
Also by John Rhodehamel:
The Great Experiment
George Washington and the American Republic
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What is economics and why is it important?
Economics is about how we use our resources. Why are
some societies able to feed and educate their children,
others not? Economics is about how people get what
they need to live full, happy lives—and why some don’t.
If we can understand basic economic questions, we can A Little History of Economics
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Isn’t economics just for adults, even professionals? Why
A lively, inviting account of the history of
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People are put off by economic jargon. But if you care modern times and the ideas of great thinkers in
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