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The World Next Week previews upcoming world events. In each episode, Robert McMahon, CFR’s managing editor of digital content, and Carla Anne Robbins, CFR senior fellow and faculty director of the Master of International Affairs program at Baruch College’s Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, discuss what’s making headlines and lay out newsworthy international developments. Both award-winning journalists, McMahon has covered foreign affairs since 1990 for the Associated Press, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and CFR.org, and Robbins was deputy editorial page editor at the New York Times and chief diplomatic correspondent at the Wall Street Journal.
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Thursday Jun 17, 2021
Thursday Jun 17, 2021
In this special episode of The World Next Week, CFR Adjunct Senior Fellow Carla Anne Robbins joins James M. Lindsay and Robert McMahon to discuss the books they recommend reading, the books they’re looking forward to reading, and the books they’re reading for fun.
Read more about Jim, Bob, and Carla’s picks on Jim’s blog, The Water’s Edge.
Jim’s Picks:
This is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arm Race, by Nicole Perlroth
Objects of Desire, by Clare Sestanovich
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter—Then, Now, and Forever, by John McWhorter
Bob’s Picks:
Missionaries, by Phil Klay
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague, Geraldine Brooks
“Power of the Powerless” in Living in Truth, by Vaclav Havel
Carla’s Picks:
The Price of Peace: Money , Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes, by Zachary D. Carter
The Transparency of Time, by Leonardo Padura
George Smiley Novels, by John le Carré