Fawaz A. Gerges and Mark Jones for PS Book Recommendations

Your weekly reading inspiration, provided by PS contributors. The PS Book Recommendations newsletter. [View this message in a web browser.]( [PS Book Recommendations]( Welcome to PS Book Recommendations, your weekly source of reading inspiration, provided by PS contributors. This week’s edition features Fawaz A. Gerges, Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, and Mark Jones, Assistant Professor of History at University College Dublin. [Book Cover The Manager’s Guide to Coaching By John L. Bennett]( Sponsored by De Gruyter [The Manager’s Guide to Coaching for Change]( By John L. Bennett “We live and work in a world of change. Helping individuals and teams prepare for, respond to, and learn from change is critical for thriving,” says author John L. Bennett. Managers and leaders play a vital role, and The Manager’s Guide to Coaching for Change is about effectively coaching others in your role as a manager-coach. Fawaz A. Gerges Recommends... and the Developing World:]( [How Britain and the US Shaped the Global Periphery]( By Atul Kohli Gerges says: "Kohli, a professor at Princeton University, compares Britain's empire in the nineteenth century with America’s informal empire in the twentieth. Unlike Britain, which ruled directly, the United States rewarded pliant local regimes, established military bases, penetrated national economies, staged military interventions, and imposed punishing multilateral sanctions. One might not call it colonialism exactly, but the effects were the same: the US advanced its interests – which revolved around the free flow of global capital and the containment of Soviet communism – at the expense of other countries’ sovereignty and right to self-determination." Don’t miss our PS Say More interview with Gerges on Iran, Gaza, US foreign policy, and more. [Read now](. "America’s preponderant support for Israel’s war in Gaza may ultimately represent a great rupture in international relations, hardening long-dormant fault lines between the West and the Global South and shattering the international liberal order that has underpinned American hegemony since the end of World War II." – Gerges the Apocalypse:]( [America’s Role in a World Transformed]( By Andrew Bacevich Gerges says: "What explains the dissonance between lofty rhetoric about American values and the dismal reality of US foreign policy? According to Bacevich, a conservative Catholic scholar and retired US army officer, the answer lies in an American leadership mired in a 'mental bog' and a 'faulty' reading of history. Democracy, prosperity, empowerment, and the rule of law, on one hand, and total war, slavery, imperialism, and genocide, on the other hand, are all linked to the diffusion of Western modernity, but the latter are rejected as anomalies." PS Contributors' Perspectives [How Fascism Happens]( By Mark Jones In the face of renewed threats to democracy, historical knowledge of past dictatorships becomes as important as ever. After all, the Holocaust and World War II show what can happen when democracies allow themselves to be undermined from within. [Read the Longer Read](. People:]( [The Faces of the Third Reich]( By Richard J. Evans Jones says: "Reading Hitler’s People, one cannot help but recognize the parallels to those who are complicit in, or openly profiting from, undermining democracy today. We should all share Evans’s anger." [Hitler’s Final Rise to Power]( By Timothy W. Ryback Jones says: "Ryback offers a blow-by-blow account of the intrigues and scheming that occurred during the 170 days between Hindenburg and Hitler’s meeting on August 13, 1932, and Hitler’s appointment as chancellor." [PS Back to School Sale: Get digital access for just $50.]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [LinkedIn]( Project Syndicate publishes and provides, on a not-for-profit basis, original commentary by the world's leading thinkers to more than 500 media outlets in over 150 countries. This newsletter does not entitle the recipient to re-publish any of the content it contains. Secure exclusive rights to PS content [here](. Interested in advertising opportunities? Email sponsorship@project-syndicate.org. This newsletter is a service of [Project Syndicate](. [Change your newsletter preferences](. Follow us on [Facebook]( [Twitter]( and [YouTube](. © Project Syndicate, all rights reserved. [Unsubscribe from all newsletters](.