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More lists! Foreign Policy Magazine provides the top 20 best-sellers on foreign policy of 2005 (as measured by Barnes & Noble).

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1. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

2. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond (Viking)

3. China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World Ted C. Fishman (Scribner)

4. The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror Natan Sharansky (PublicAffairs)

5. 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States National Commission on Terrorist Attacks (W.W. Norton & Company; Barnes & Noble Books)

6. The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
George Packer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

7. Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground
Robert D. Kaplan (Random House)

8. First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan Gary C. Schroen (Presidio Press)

9. Secrets of the Kingdom: The Inside Story of the Secret Saudi-U.S. Connection Gerald L. Posner (Random House)

10. The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy T.R. Reid (Penguin Press)

11. Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East Clyde Prestowitz (Basic Books)

12. The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God George Weigel (Basic Books)

13. Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War Anthony Shadid (Henry Holt and Company)

14. The Fate of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair Martin Meredith (PublicAffairs)

15. Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power David J. Rothkopf (PublicAffairs)

16. America's Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between America and Its Enemies George Friedman (Doubleday)

17. Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating
Thomas P.M. Barnett (Putnam)

18. John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics Richard Parker (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

19. The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War Andrew Bacevich (Oxford University Press)

20. The Case for Peace: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Can Be Resolved Alan Dershowitz (John Wiley and Sons)