The World Next Week: Summer Reading Special 2017

In this special edition, CFR.org Editor Robert McMahon, CFR's Director of Studies Jim Lindsay and Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy Gayle Lemmon start off the summer with a list of books that they will be reading in the weeks ahead. Listen in for recommendations from their reading lists.

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Hosts
  • James M. Lindsay
    Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
  • Robert McMahon
    Managing Editor
  • Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
    Adjunct Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy

Show Notes

In this special edition, CFR.org Editor Robert McMahon, CFR's Director of Studies Jim Lindsay and Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy Gayle Lemmon start off the summer with a list of books that they will be reading in the weeks ahead. Listen in for recommendations from their reading lists.

Gayle's Picks: 

The Federalist Papers

The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return, by Mihir Desai

Code Girls, by Liza Mundy

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, by Arundhati Roy

I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad, by Souad Mekhennet

"Halt and Catch Fire" on AMC

"Berlin Station" on EPIX

Robert's Picks:

Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic, by Sam Quinones

Redeployment, by Phil Klay

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by David Grann

"All Things Considered," produced by BBC Wales

Jim's Picks:

Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department, by Dean Acheson

Profiles in Courage, by John F. Kennedy and Ted Sorenson

Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam, by Mark Bowden

"Dunkirk," dir. Christopher Nolan (U.S. release date: July 21, 2017)

 

Climate Change

The United Arab Emirates, a major oil and gas producer, hosts the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference (COP28), where hundreds of world leaders meet to discuss limiting global warming and helping states that are most vulnerable to the effects of climate change; Russia arbitrarily detains a journalist with U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; and the World Health Organization asks China for information on a spike in respiratory illness.

Ukraine

Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russian forces stalls as the future of U.S. aid remains uncertain; Argentina gears up for its presidential election runoff while inflation rates soar; Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan arrives in Berlin to address refugee flows and the Israel–Hamas war with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz; and David Cameron returns to the United Kingdom government as foreign secretary.

Indo-Pacific

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Summit begins in San Francisco with U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping set to meet on the sidelines; French President Emmanuel Macron hosts a humanitarian conference to discuss new aid options for civilians in the Gaza Strip; the Arab League holds an emergency summit in Riyadh at the request of the Palestinian Authority and Saudi Arabia; and the United States and China discuss nuclear arms control.

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