Global Politics & Foreign Policy
Individual topics classified under "Global Politics & Foreign Policy", ranked by how many awards the books carrying each one have won combined. Open a topic to see its most-awarded books.
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- 1
Cold War
24 books
12
wins
210
score
- Khrushchev: The Man and His Era · William Taubman3 wins · 36 score
- The Fate of the Earth · Jonathan Schell1 win · 20 score
- ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age · Walter A. McDougall1 win · 16 score
- Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War · Frances FitzGerald1 win · 16 score
- Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956 · Anne Applebaum1 win · 15 score
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U.S. foreign policy
15 books
11
wins
144
score
- George F. Kennan: An American Life · John Lewis Gaddis2 wins · 24 score
- The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House · Seymour Hersh2 wins · 20 score
- Memoirs, 1950–1963 · George F. Kennan1 win · 16 score
- Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department · Dean Acheson1 win · 16 score
- The Devil and John Foster Dulles · Townsend Hoopes1 win · 12 score
- 3
Cold War diplomacy
15 books
10
wins
168
score
- George F. Kennan: An American Life · John Lewis Gaddis2 wins · 24 score
- King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation · Scott Anderson1 win · 16 score
- Memoirs, 1950–1963 · George F. Kennan1 win · 16 score
- Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department · Dean Acheson1 win · 16 score
- Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam · Fredrik Logevall1 win · 15 score
- 4
American foreign policy
9 books
6
wins
91
score
- Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century · George Packer1 win · 18 score
- Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945 · Robert Dallek1 win · 16 score
- John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy · Samuel Flagg Bemis1 win · 12 score
- Memoirs: 1925–1950 · George F. Kennan1 win · 12 score
- Winners and Losers · Gloria Emerson1 win · 12 score
- 5
Globalization
11 books
5
wins
81
score
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity · Katherine Boo3 wins · 40 score
- American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization · Neil Smith1 win · 8 score
- The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century · Thomas Friedman1 win · 8 score
- Global Reach: The Power of the Multinational Corporations · Richard Barnet and Ronald E. Muller0 wins · 4 score
- A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World · William J. Bernstein0 wins · 3 score
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Russian history
6 books
5
wins
74
score
- Khrushchev: The Man and His Era · William Taubman3 wins · 36 score
- Peter the Great: His Life and World · Robert K. Massie1 win · 20 score
- Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History · Catherine Merridale1 win · 8 score
- Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia · Catherine Merridale0 wins · 4 score
- Echoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian Village · Serge Schmemann0 wins · 3 score
- 7
Diplomacy
5 books
5
wins
58
score
- Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century · George Packer1 win · 18 score
- John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy · Samuel Flagg Bemis1 win · 12 score
- With Americans of Past and Present Days · Jean Jules Jusserand1 win · 12 score
- Diplomacy · Henry Kissinger1 win · 8 score
- Power, Freedom, and Diplomacy: The Foreign Policy of the United States of America · Paul Seabury1 win · 8 score
- 8
US foreign policy
7 books
4
wins
68
score
- A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide · Samantha Power4 wins · 37 score
- Kissinger · Walter Isaacson0 wins · 8 score
- Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq · Thomas E. Ricks0 wins · 7 score
- Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power · Robert Dallek0 wins · 4 score
- The Best and the Brightest · David Halberstam0 wins · 4 score
- 9
Soviet-American relations
3 books
4
wins
48
score
- 10
Cuban Revolution
3 books
4
wins
46
score
- 11
Diplomatic history
3 books
4
wins
44
score
- 12
British Empire
6 books
3
wins
53
score
- Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World · Maya Jasanoff1 win · 19 score
- Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves · Adam Hochschild1 win · 12 score
- Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution · Simon Schama1 win · 12 score
- Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire · Caroline Elkins0 wins · 4 score
- The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery · Michael Taylor0 wins · 3 score
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Totalitarianism
6 books
3
wins
53
score
- Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea · Barbara Demick1 win · 20 score
- The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia · Masha Gessen1 win · 16 score
- Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives · Alan Bullock1 win · 8 score
- Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin · Timothy Snyder0 wins · 3 score
- Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941 · Robert C. Tucker0 wins · 3 score
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British politics
9 books
3
wins
45
score
- Jennie Lee: A Life · Patricia Hollis1 win · 8 score
- Lloyd George, From Peace To War 1912–1916 · John Grigg1 win · 8 score
- Stanley Baldwin · G. M. Young1 win · 8 score
- Churchill: a Biography (about Winston Churchill) · Roy Jenkins0 wins · 4 score
- Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised Biography · Charles Moore0 wins · 4 score
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National identity
9 books
3
wins
43
score
- Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life · Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton1 win · 8 score
- Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream · Mychal Denzel Smith1 win · 8 score
- My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel · Ari Shavit1 win · 5 score
- Europeans · Jane Kramer0 wins · 4 score
- Habits and the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life · Robert N. Bellah0 wins · 4 score
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International relations
5 books
3
wins
32
score
- Diplomacy · Henry Kissinger1 win · 8 score
- Power, Freedom, and Diplomacy: The Foreign Policy of the United States of America · Paul Seabury1 win · 8 score
- The Might of Nations: World Politics in Our Time · John G. Stoessinger1 win · 8 score
- Stable Peace · Kenneth E. Boulding0 wins · 4 score
- The Cold War as History · Louis J. Halle0 wins · 4 score
- 17
Soviet history
3 books
3
wins
29
score
- 18
Cold War espionage
9 books
2
wins
52
score
- Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA · Tim Weiner2 wins · 24 score
- Perjury: The Hiss–Chambers Case · Allen Weinstein0 wins · 4 score
- The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair · Sam Roberts0 wins · 4 score
- The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA · Thomas Powers0 wins · 4 score
- The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War · Ben Macintyre0 wins · 4 score
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict
10 books
2
wins
48
score
- A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy · Nathan Thrall1 win · 15 score
- We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir · Raja Shehadeh0 wins · 7 score
- My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel · Ari Shavit1 win · 5 score
- The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East · Robert Fisk0 wins · 4 score
- The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew and the Heart of the Middle East · Sandy Tolan0 wins · 4 score
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Soviet Union history
4 books
2
wins
34
score
- Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster · Adam Higginbotham1 win · 15 score
- The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within · Geoffrey Hosking1 win · 8 score
- Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928 · Stephen Kotkin0 wins · 7 score
- Stalin · Adam Ulam0 wins · 4 score
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Middle East conflict
4 books
2
wins
31
score
- Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS · Joby Warrick1 win · 12 score
- From Beirut to Jerusalem · Thomas L. Friedman1 win · 12 score
- Warriors at Suez: Eisenhower Takes America into the Middle East · Donald Neff0 wins · 4 score
- A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS · Robert F. Worth0 wins · 3 score
- 22
Indian independence movement
3 books
2
wins
29
score
- 23
Partition of India
3 books
2
wins
28
score
- 24
Cold War origins
4 books
2
wins
27
score
- Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference · Herbert Feis1 win · 12 score
- The United States and the Origins of the Cold War · John Lewis Gaddis1 win · 8 score
- Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945–48 · Robert J. Donovan0 wins · 4 score
- A Fractured Liberation: Korea Under US Occupation · Kornel Chang0 wins · 3 score
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Paris Peace Conference 1919
3 books
2
wins
25
score
- 26
Arab-Israeli conflict
3 books
2
wins
24
score
- 27
Rise of fascism
4 books
2
wins
24
score
- Hitler: Ascent, 1889–1939 · Volker Ullrich with Jefferson Chase (trans.)1 win · 10 score
- Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War · Deborah Cohen1 win · 5 score
- Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 · Adam Hochschild0 wins · 5 score
- Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century · Ece Temelkuran0 wins · 4 score
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Age of Exploration
3 books
2
wins
23
score
- 29
English Reformation
4 books
2
wins
23
score
- Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation · Peter Marshall1 win · 8 score
- Thomas Cranmer: A Life · Diarmaid MacCulloch1 win · 8 score
- The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village · Eamon Duffy0 wins · 4 score
- Going to Church in Medieval England · Nicholas Orme0 wins · 3 score
- 30
Cold War politics
6 books
1
win
30
score
- Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire · David Remnick1 win · 16 score
- Joe McCarthy and the Press · Edwin R. Bayley0 wins · 4 score
- Tumultuous Years: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1949–1953 · Robert J. Donovan0 wins · 4 score
- Owen Lattimore and the “Loss” of China · Robert P. Newman0 wins · 3 score
- Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center · Ray Monk0 wins · 2 score
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French Revolution
6 books
1
win
29
score
- Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël · J. Christopher Herold1 win · 12 score
- At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life · Francine du Plessix Gray0 wins · 4 score
- The Traveller: The Revolutionary Life of George Forster and his Search for Humanity · Andrea Wulf0 wins · 4 score
- Marie Antoinette: The Journey · Antonia Fraser0 wins · 3 score
- The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It · David A. Bell0 wins · 3 score
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War on Terror
3 books
1
win
28
score
- The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals · Jane Mayer1 win · 16 score
- No Good Men among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes · Anand Gopal0 wins · 8 score
- Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition · W. Fitzhugh Brundage0 wins · 4 score
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Mexican Revolution
3 books
1
win
22
score
- 34
Soviet Union
4 books
1
win
22
score
- 35
US-Soviet relations
4 books
1
win
22
score
- The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy · David E. Hoffman1 win · 12 score
- Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story · Nigel Cliff0 wins · 4 score
- High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis · Max Frankel0 wins · 3 score
- The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind · Martin Sixsmith0 wins · 3 score
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Colonialism and empire
4 books
1
win
19
score
- Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire · Nicholas Thomas1 win · 8 score
- Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction · Sadiah Qureshi0 wins · 6 score
- Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World · Justin Marozzi0 wins · 4 score
- Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire · Sujit Sivasundaram0 wins · 1 score
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Decolonization
4 books
1
win
19
score
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Middle East politics
3 books
1
win
17
score
- 39
US-China relations
4 books
1
win
17
score
- The New Chinese Empire - And What It Means for the United States · Ross Terrill1 win · 8 score
- Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future · Dan Wang0 wins · 3 score
- Nixon and Mao: The Week that Changed the World · Margaret MacMillan0 wins · 3 score
- Owen Lattimore and the “Loss” of China · Robert P. Newman0 wins · 3 score
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French colonialism
4 books
1
win
15
score
- A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954–1962 · Alistair Horne1 win · 8 score
- Champlain's Dream · David Hackett Fischer0 wins · 3 score
- In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo–Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism · J. P. Daughton0 wins · 3 score
- You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery · Jeremy D. Popkin0 wins · 1 score
- 41
Putin's Russia
3 books
1
win
15
score
- 42
Nationalism
3 books
1
win
13
score
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Middle East history
4 books
0
wins
22
score
- A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922 · David Fromkin0 wins · 11 score
- Daughter of the Desert: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell (about Gertrude Bell) · Georgina Howell0 wins · 4 score
- The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years · Bernard Lewis0 wins · 4 score
- The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 · Rashid Khalidi0 wins · 3 score
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Foreign policy
3 books
0
wins
11
score
- The Cold War as History · Louis J. Halle0 wins · 4 score
- To Move a Nation: The Politics of Foreign Policy in the Administration of John F. Kennedy · Roger Hilsman0 wins · 4 score
- The New Killing Fields: Massacre and the Politics of Intervention · Nicolaus Mills and Kira Brunner (editors)0 wins · 3 score
- 45
Communism
3 books
0
wins
10
score
- 46
Italian unification
3 books
0
wins
10
score
- 47
Ottoman Empire
3 books
0
wins
7
score
- 48
Islamic history
3 books
0
wins
5
score
Recent Standout Topics (2020+)
- 1Partition of India2 wins
- 2Israeli-Palestinian conflict1 win
- 3Cold War1 win
- 4Decolonization0 wins
- 5Colonialism and empire0 wins
Where This Data Comes From
- Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction2012–2026
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Award1936–2026
- Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction1999–2026
- Bancroft Prize1948–2026
- Cundill History Prize2008–2026
- Financial Times and Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year Award2005–2026
- J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize1999–2026
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography1919–2025
- Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction2014–2026
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography1981–2025