The World Next Week: Summer Reading Special

In this special edition, CFR.org Managing Editor Robert McMahon, CFR's Director of Studies Jim Lindsay and Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow Elizabeth Saunders 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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James M. Lindsay

Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair

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Elizabeth N. Saunders

Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, and Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University
Robert McMahon

Managing Editor

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Show Notes

Elizabeth's books:

Anxious Politics: Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World, by Bethany Albertson and Shana Kushner Gadarian

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars, by Nathalia Holt

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race, by Margot Lee Shetterly

Finale: A Novel of the Reagan Years, by Thomas Mallon

Robert's books:

Pumpkin Flowers: A Soldier’s Story, by Matti Friedman

One Child: The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment, by Mei Fong

Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World, by David Maraniss

Jim's books:

Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam, by Fredrik Logevall

The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Girl on the Train, by Paula Hawkins

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen, by Mary Norris

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TWNW Special: What to Read This Summer 2024

This special episode of The World Next Week features a summerlong feast of reading, watching, and listening treats. Deborah Amos, the Ferris Professor of Journalism in Residence at Princeton University and a former international correspondent for National Public Radio, joins CFR’s TWNW hosts Robert McMahon and Carla Anne Robbins to discuss good reads they recommend, books they are looking forward to reading, and other entertainment they are enjoying this summer.

Podcast with Robert McMahon, Carla Anne Robbins and Deborah Amos July 4, 2024 The World Next Week

France

France, Iran, and the UK Hold Snap Elections, EU Pushback on Chinese EVs, and More

France’s governance is at stake as it holds snap elections for its National Assembly, with the far-right National Rally looking to build on its success in the European Parliament elections; the United Kingdom (UK) has its own snap general elections with Keir Starmer and his Labour Party looking to end the fourteen-year rule of the Conservatives; Iran’s snap presidential elections could signal unity of regime hard-liners or glimmers of change; the European Union (EU) plans to impose provisional tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles; and Ukraine strikes more than thirty Russian oil refineries.

Podcast with Robert McMahon and Carla Anne Robbins June 27, 2024 The World Next Week

Russia

Russia’s Secret Trial for Gershkovich, EU’s Rightward Shift, Boeing in Space, and More

A Russian court moves judicial proceedings for detained U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich to Yekaterinburg for a closed-door espionage trial; the success of far-right parties in the European Parliament elections challenges the power of several incumbent European Union (EU) leaders; the Boeing Starliner "Calypso" spacecraft prepares to return from the International Space Station after delays; and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dissolves his war cabinet.

Podcast with Carla Anne Robbins and Miriam Elder June 20, 2024 The World Next Week

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