Politics books
- Afghanistan, Books, Culture, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Politics, Politics books, South and Central Asia, Taliban
Kabul: Final Call by Laurie Bristow; The Afghans by Åsne Seierstad reviews – how the west abandoned Afghanistan… and what happened next
An ex-UK envoy’s compelling account of the chaotic military withdrawal from the country is full of telling det…
- Afghanistan, Biden administration, Books, Joe Biden, Politics books, South and Central Asia, US foreign policy, US military, US national security, US news, US politics, World news
Biden ‘privately defiant’ over chaotic 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, book says
The Internationalists details how the president was determined to leave a country in which 2,324 US troops wer…
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Books that explain the world: Guardian writers share their best nonfiction reads of the year
From a Jacobean traveller’s travails in Sindh to the tangled roots of Nigeria, our pick of new nonfiction book…
- Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Biden administration, Books, Culture, Donald Rumsfeld, Freedom of information, George Bush, History books, Politics books, South and Central Asia, Trump administration, US foreign policy, US military, US national security, US news, US politics, World news
The Afghanistan Papers review: superb exposé of a war built on lies
Craig Whitlock of the Washington Post used freedom of information to produce the definitive US version of the …
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Muhammad Anwar obituary
Race relations researcher who saw political involvement as a key factor in integration for immigrants to Brita…
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Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India by KS Komireddi – review
A blistering polemic exposes the country’s malaise under Narendra ModiAlmost a decade ago, I travelled to a sm…