2013 Lionel Gelber Prize Longlist

12 books that will change the way you think about international affairs

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics
The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack Obama
Ghosts of Empire: Britain's Legacies in the Modern World
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying, The Secret WWII Transcripts of German POWS
The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949