Curtis: What is the best international affairs book of 2011?

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5 December, 2011

By: John Curtis

Adjunct Professor at Queen's University and Chair of Statistics Canada's Advisory Committee on International Trade Statistics

The Kissinger book on China must be among the best this year; since the 21st century, or at least the first part of it, will be shaped and defined by the US-China relationship in all aspects, this book analyzes the beginning of this relationship in the modern era.

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