Nina L. Khrushcheva and Anne-Marie Slaughter 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 Nina L. Khrushcheva, Professor of International Affairs at The New School, and Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of the think tank New America and Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. [Book Cover Money and Promises: Seven Deals That Changed the World by Paolo Zannoni]( [Money and Promises:]( [Seven Deals That Changed the World]( By Paolo Zannoni "Present[s] richly illustrated vignettes...an amiable mix of scholarship and jaunty financial history." – The Wall Street Journal Sponsored by Columbia University Press PS Contributors' Perspectives [The Sources of Russian Conduct]( By Nina L. Khrushcheva Russian President Vladimir Putin has always followed a clear escalation formula: he withstands growing pressure for a while, but eventually he snaps. This record suggests that his decision not to respond forcefully to Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region should not be viewed as proof that his “red lines” are mere bluffs. [Read the commentary](. [To Run the World:]( [The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power]( By Sergey Radchenko Khrushcheva says: "By focusing on the logic driving Soviet leaders’ foreign-policy decisions," this book aims to "shed light on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s often-bloody quest to reclaim Russia’s status as a great power on par with the United States." Anne-Marie Slaughter Recommends... [The Snakehead:]( [An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream]( By Patrick Radden Keefe Slaughter says: "Keefe is well-known now for Say Nothing, an extraordinary book about the troubles in Northern Ireland, and Empire of Pain, about the opioid crisis in the US and the Sackler family that helped cause it. The Snakehead – his second book – tells the story of the Golden Venture, a cargo ship that ran aground on the coast of New York in the 1990s with nearly 300 undocumented Chinese immigrants on board. Keefe’s exploration of a community of Chinese immigrants from Fujian reads like a novel and provides as much insight into the mechanics of human smuggling and the forces driving immigration as anything I have ever read." "Could AI constitutions encompass democratic values? Could such 'democratic AI,' wherever it is developed, provide a counterweight to 'autocratic AI,' which is designed to serve the interests of specific governments?" Don’t miss our new PS Say More interview with Slaughter on the Ukraine war, the US presidential election, artificial intelligence, and more. [Read now](. [PS. Subscribe to PS Premium to secure a copy of the latest issue of our magazine, PS Quarterly: The Climate Crucible.]( [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](.