Recommended Reading
National Security Law
“This book fills a notable vacuum in Canadian legal writing.... [I]t should ... be at the elbow of every Canadian security intelligence officer, law enforcement official, government policy-maker, elected politician, lawyer, or judge who must deal with national security issues in their professional life” - Ronald G. Atkey (First chair of the Security Intelligence Review Committee, 1984-89)
Great Powers, Grand Strategies: The New Game in the South China Sea
“Great Powers, Grand Strategies provides a timely and insightful analysis of the many facets of this new region of Great Power politics…. It's an excellent synopsis of the confluence of international interests and challenges within the South China Sea.... I recommend this work to those seeking to understand the potential impacts of the Great Power's actions, the reasoning behind them and the methodologies that support them.” - The Australian Naval Institute
The Secret World: A History of Intelligence
“Both brilliant in its sweep and near-miraculous in the detail and confident judgments provided on two and a half millennia of spying. . . . A crowning triumph of one of the most adventurous scholars of the security world.” - Financial Times
The Fortunes of Africa: A 5000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor
“Mr. Meredith artfully weaves together exploration, trade, and geography in a narrative that is both detailed and arresting.... [He] leaves the reader bursting with a wealth of facts.” - The Economist
China as a Polar Great Power
“In this study of China’s efforts to become the only nation other than the United States capable of operating comprehensively in both the Arctic and Antarctica, Brady opens up a new frontier of insight into an area of international relations all but ignored by Western scholarship. She draws on a wide range of Chinese sources to offer eye-opening revelations about China’s burgeoning polar activities.” - Foreign Affairs
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World
“Corruption on a grand scale is fantastically complicated and tough to write about… Kleptopia does the job brilliantly. Burgis spins his tale of global corruption from the ground up, [beginning] with a hero straight out of a John le Carré novel…Kleptopia is wonderfully if grimly entertaining.” - Washington Post
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
“To cut to the chase: this is the best book about the lives of the poor that I have read for a very, very long time. The research is wide-ranging. Much of it is new. Above all, Banerjee and Duflo take the poorest billion people as they find them. There is no wishful thinking. The attitude is straightforward and honest, occasionally painfully so. And some of the conclusions are surprising, even disconcerting.” - The Economist
The Climate Fix
“Roger Pielke, Jr., cuts through passions and politics to propose a clear and sober way forward in addressing one of the critical issues of our time.” - Kerry Emanuel, Professor of Atmospheric Science, MIT