
Lewis Tallon – Co-Editor and EMEA Analyst While our annual reading list is divided into geographical and thematic sections (see below), the analyst team at Encyclopedia Geopolitica have also put forward a collection of their personal recommendations to start the list. Encyclopedia Geopolitica readers have access to a 30-day free trial for Kindle Unlimited, allowing them to sample over 1 million ebooks and thousands of audiobooks. As an independent publication, our writers are volunteers from within the professional geopolitical intelligence community, and referrals like this support our ability to create future content by funding server time and domain fees.Īs this list contains a staggering 331 books, it is worth considering Amazon’s Kindle “ Unlimited” programme as a more cost-effective way to get through the reading list. It has been put together as an intellectual buffet table, please feel free to scroll to the sections which best match your interests.ĭisclosure: Purchases made using the links in this article earn referral payments for Encyclopedia Geopolitica.

This list need not be read from beginning to end. This year, we at Encyclopedia Geopolitica have compiled a bumper list of books to help you understand the trends and forces that have driven the turbulent events of this year and will precipitate whatever awaits us in 2021. What started with the targeted killing of Iran’s Major General Qassem Soleimani by an American armed drone only became more tumultuous with the outbreak of a global pandemic, the unprecedented normalisation of relations between Israel and a significant portion of the Arab world, and a polarising and contested US Presidential election, which saw Donald Trump become the first one-term US President since George H W Bush was ousted by Bill Clinton.
