Political Science – African Politics
Book report.
– pick a book from the following list
– follow the directions on how to receive an A on the book review.
1. Gerges, A. Fawaz, Obama and the Middle East: The End of America’s Moment, London, England:
Palgrave Macmillan Trade, 2013.
2. Luce, Edward, Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent, New York City, NY:
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012.
3. Kkao, John, Innovation Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and
What We Can Do to Get It Back, New York, USA: Free Press, 2007.
4. Philip Coggan, Paper Promises: Debt, Money, and the New World Order, New York, NY:
PublicAffairs, 2012.
5. Rashid, Ahemd, Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, London, England: Penguin Books, 2013.
6. Bergen, L. Peter, the Longest War, New York, NY: Free Press, 2011.
7. Natsios, Andrew, Sudan, South Sudan, and Darfur: What Everyone Needs to Know, Oxford,
England: Oxford University Press, 2012.
8. Alter, Jonathan, the Promise: President Obama, Year One, New York City, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2011.
9. ALter, Jonathan, The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies, New York City, NY: Simon &
Schuster, 2014.
10. Haass, Richard, Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America’s House in Order, New York, NY: Basic Books, 2014.
11. Rubin,Jeff, Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of
Globalization, New York, NY: Random Hous, 2009.
12. Kiernan, Peter, Becoming China’s Bitch: And Nine More Catastrophes We Must Avoid Right
Now, Nashville, TN: Turner, 2012.
13. Ennaji, Moha, Multiculturalism and Democracy in North Africa: Aftermath of the Arab Spring,
London, England: Routledge, 2014.
14. Mayo dambisa, Winner Take All: China’s Race for Resources and What It Means for the World, New York, NY: Basic Books. 2013.
15. Moyo, Dambisa, Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa, Farrar, New York, NY: Straus and Giroux, 2010.
16. David Maraniss, Barack Obama: The Story, New York City, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2013.
17. Edward Conard, Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About the
Economy Is Wrong, London, England: Portfolio, 2013.
18. Josef Joffe, the Myth of America’s Decline: Politics, Economics, and a Half Century of False
Prophecies, New York, NY: Liveright, 2014.
19. UBUNTU Forum, Reforming International Institutions: Another World is Possible, London,
England: Routledge, 2014.
20. Lawson, Victoria, Making Development Geography, London, England: Routledge, 2012.
