Guns, Germs and Steel

By Jared Diamond,

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**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE**

'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens

Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? And what can it teach us about our current crisis?

Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not…

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1 author picked Guns, Germs and Steel as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

As a student of international order, I enjoy reading history from a very long-term perspective. This book – which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 – offers just that by providing an overview of the origins of society and relations of power, answering big questions about why there are socio-economic differences between regions of the world, the impact of geography and nature on technological development, and the implications of human footprint on the planet.

While this book is a bit of an outlier in this list when it comes to US-China relations, it helps us think in terms of how…

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