 | The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier
Buy new: $16.80 / Used from: $15.30 Massive inequality and the desperate poverty faced by three billion people make it hard to address a lot of global problems--why does poverty persist?
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 | Contested Grounds (Suny Series in International Environmental Policy and Theory)
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $14.04 Pioneering overview of glopbal environment change, conflict and security
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 | Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village by Daniel H. Deudney
Buy new: $28.63 / Used from: $17.09 Great theoretical work on global security, with much insight into addressing the challenge of nuclear weapons
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 | Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren (American and Comparative Environmental Policy)
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $7.98 Useful primer on the threat of climate change
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 | Sex Trafficking: The Global Market in Women and Children (Contemporary Social Issues) by Kathryn Farr
Buy new: $14.17 / Used from: $8.50 Here is a large sector of the economy--and a great affront to human morality-- that needs to be shut down
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 | The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance by Laurie Garrett
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $0.48 Important study of microbial threats
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 | Inside Terrorism by Bruce Hoffman
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $12.45 Classic study of the threat of terrorism
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 | The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization by Thomas Homer-Dixon
Buy new: $15.10 / Used from: $6.49 Excellent overview of global trends threatening humankind
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 | The Ingenuity Gap: Facing the Economic, Environmental, and Other Challenges of an Increasingly Complex and Unpredictable Future by Thomas Homer-Dixon
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $4.97 Influential work on the failure to develop or deliver problem-solving innovations to the places where they are needed
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 | Environment, Scarcity, and Violence. by Thomas F. Homer-Dixon
Buy new: $25.15 / Used from: $18.46 Key study of resource scarcity and violent conflict
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 | Climate Change 2007 - Mitigation of Climate Change: Working Group III contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC (Climate Change 2007) by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Buy new: $76.50 / Used from: $37.90 What we have to do to mitigate climate change--and why--excellent study
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 | Climate Change 2007 - The Physical Science Basis: Working Group I Contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC (Climate Change 2007) by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Buy new: $76.50 / Used from: $70.00 The science of climate change, accessible and compelling
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 | Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.68 Important study of the threat of global climate change
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 | The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor by William Langewiesche
Buy new: $13.20 / Used from: $2.68 The migration of nuclear weapons from rich states to poor ones to...
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 | Refugees in a Global Era by Philip Marfleet
Buy new: $33.95 / Used from: $9.95 Refugees in the 21st century--unbelievable
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 | Landmines And Human Security: International Politics And War's Hidden Legacy (Suny Series in Global Politics)
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $15.49 Key work on addressing the threat of antipersonnel landmines
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 | Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy by Moises Naim
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $8.00 Nice overview of global crime
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 | Violent Environments
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $12.00 Important study placing scarcity-conflict arguments in richer historical contexts
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 | A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (P.S.) by Samantha Power
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $6.92 What happened to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which came into force as international law in 1951?
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 | Armies of the Young: Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism (The Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies) by David, M Rosen
Buy new: $20.65 / Used from: $17.94 Child soldiers--indefensible from any moral vantage
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 | Reframing the Agenda: The Impact of NGO and Middle Power Cooperation in International Security Policy
Buy new: $86.95 / Used from: $34.57 Links among middle powers, NGOs and security in addressing small arms, child soldiers and other issues
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 | The Small Arms Trade: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides) by Matthew Schroeder
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $6.88 Small arms trade--lethal, dirty, hard to manage
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 | Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill by Jessica Stern
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $4.00 The psychology of contemporary terrorists
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 | The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review by Nicholas Stern
Buy new: $45.00 / Used from: $29.10 One of several attempts to estimate the costs of mitigating and adapating to global climate change
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 | Transnational Threats: Smuggling and Trafficking in Arms, Drugs, and Human Life
Buy new: $49.95 / Used from: $35.41 Open borders, ruined lives
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