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Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire, and Race in the European Project BY HANS KUNDNANI. Hurst, 2023, 248 pp. Kundnani, a noted commentator on European affairs, recently decided that he no longer believes [...]

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Keir Starmer: The Biography BY TOM BALDWIN. William Collins, 2024, 448 pp. With a general election looming in the United Kingdom, the Labour Party enjoys a steady 20-point lead in [...]

How Not to Be a Politician: A Memoir BY RORY STEWART. Penguin Press, 2023, 464 pp. If you read only one contemporary political memoir, let this be it. Stewart is [...]

The Abuse of Power: Confronting Injustice in Public Life BY THERESA MAY. Headline, 2023, 352 pp. The author, who served as British prime minister from 2016 to 2019, is remembered [...]

We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland BY FINTAN O'TOOLE. Norton, 2021, 624 pp. The centenary of Irish independence has inspired a flood of writing. Among the [...]

Homelands: A Personal History of Europe BY TIMOTHY GARTON ASH. Yale University Press, 2023, 384 pp. For nearly a half century, Garton Ash has commented on central and eastern Europe [...]

Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate BY M. E. SAROTTE. Yale University Press, 2021, 568 pp. Adistinguished historian of transatlantic relations revisits Western relations [...]

Diplomacy BY HENRY KISSINGER. Simon & Schuster, 1994, 912 pp. The Economic Consequences of the Peace BY JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES. Harcourt, Brace, and Howe, 1919,192 pp. The Primacy of Politics: [...]

Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500 BY PETER H. WILSON. Harvard University Press, 2023, 976 pp. This astonishingly ambitious and detailed 900-page study of [...]

EVERYONE WRITES OFF THE EUROPEAN UNION AS DULL AND PRONE TO FRACTURE. BUT THE LAST DECADE SHOWS THAT BRUSSELS IS SMARTER THAN BEIJING, LONDON, MOSCOW, AND WASHINGTON. SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, [...]

Stars With Stripes: The Essential Partnership Between the European Union and the United States BY ANTHONY LUZZATTO GARDNER. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 468 pp. This memoir relates the impressions of the [...]

This document is a collection of recent books in various subjects. The first book is a biography of Keir Starmer, the leader of the Labour Party in the United Kingdom. It provides personal details about Starmer's life and his rise in politics, as well as his controversial steps to push the party to the center. The second book discusses centrist antiestablishment parties in Europe and their struggle for survival, arguing that most fail to maintain their antiestablishment credentials. The third book explores the history of peasants in Europe and their way of life, focusing on Poland, Italy, and Ireland. The fourth book compares modern-day charismatic leaders like Boris Johnson and Donald Trump to historical figures like Julius Caesar, highlighting their abuse of power. The final book examines the invention of terrorism in France from 1904 to 1939, challenging the assumption that terrorists were all radical leftists from foreign countries. [Extracted from the article]

The Capital BY ROBERT MENASSE. TRANSLATED BY JAMIE BULLOCH. Liveright, 2019, 416 pp. The European Union may well be the most ambitious and successful experiment in voluntary international cooperation in [...]

Of Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Struggle Over Freedom and Security BY HENRY FARRELL AND ABRAHAM NEWMAN. Princeton University Press, 2019, 248 pp. Globalization means that the domestic policies of [...]

EuroTragedy: A Drama in Nine Acts BY ASHOKA MODY. Oxford University Press, 2018, 672 pp. In this book, the best history of the recent eurozone crisis yet to appear, Mody [...]

Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK BY SIMON KUPER. Profile Books, 2022, 240 pp. Most foreigners are perplexed by the flagrant air of diffidence [...]

The Politics of Opera: A History From Monteverdi to Mozart BY MITCHELL COHEN. Princeton University Press, 2017, 512 pp. Toscanini: Musician of Conscience BY HARVEY SACHS. Liveright, 2017, 944 pp. [...]