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U.S. foreign policy, warns Ian Bremmer, is too often based on a simplistic formula: engage America’ friends and isolate her enemies. Bremmer’s provocative and persuasive new book, The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall
, reveals why this approach rarely brings the hoped-for result. Tyrants, Bremmer argues, have an interest in isolating their peoples. U.S. policymakers should not be in the business of helping them do it. An internationally acclaimed political scientist, Bremmer is president of Eurasia Group, the world’s largest political risk consultancy. Here he shares with us his list of the 10 books to read on international politics, including works by authors as thought-provoking and diverse as Fareed Zakaria, Amy Chua, and Robert Kagan.
LAS FRAGILES DEMOCRACIAS LATINOAMERICANAS 
The past is the realm of history; the future, of hope; and the present, an opportunity for reflection and, above all, for action. These premises have prompted here in Santiago, Chile, a project to shape a book, Las Frágiles Democracias Latinoamericanas. This book includes the analyses and observations of fourteen interdisciplinary experts from Latin America, gathered together around one aim: reflecting on Latin America today from the point of view of the problems afflicting the consolidation of democracy and the market. Within the complex web of global events that determines the course of action followed by nations, their leaders and the miscellaneous multilateral organizations created to channel and intercommunicate issues of interest in the so-called Information Age, Latin America has lost relevance when it comes to quantifying its transcendence and influence as a region and become inserted in the ranking of priorities of the international agenda. This is partly due to the fact that Latin America still has not learned to think in strategic terms and to act in a resolute way on matters that concern the continent and the world.
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