I’m always excited to round out the year with my favorite foreign policy books. Some you’ve seen in the newsletter, such as Patricia Evangelista’s Some People Need Killing, which is incredibly chilling but an amazing read and Leta Hong Fincher’s Leftover Women, which is just out in its 10th anniversary edition. As I prepare for a second year of teaching Feminist Foreign Policy at Bard, I’ve been devouring Kristina Lunz’s The Future of Foreign Policy is Feminist, Stephanie Foster and Susan Markam’s Feminist Foreign Policy in Theory and Practice, and Hawoon Jung’s Flowers of Fire. I learned so much reading Liz Mundy’s book on the women at the CIA and Yepoka Yeebo’s account of Ghanaian conman John Ackah Blay-Miezah, who swindled millions worldwide.
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As we end another year and start a new one, I’m pulling out this NYT piece from 2003 and thinking about “emendations and erasures and crossings-out” that take place on our proverbial calendars and looking ahead. “If there’s any fixing to be done,” the piece notes, about referring to our lives and world, “it will have to be done in the future.” Indeed. Yet, the future depends on what we do today.
I’m wishing you a happy, healthy, and restful holiday — a happy 2024. Team Interruptrr will be back in mid-January (I haven’t decided exactly when….) As always, thank you reader. This newsletter means the world to me and you make that so. — Elmira
Yeah, I haven’t figured out how to insert photos into Substack…. 🤷🏻♀️
Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China, 10th Anniversary Edition by Leta Hong Fincher
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country by Patricia Evangelista
The Future of Foreign Policy is Feminist by Kristina Lunz
Feminist Foreign Policy in Theory and Practice: An Introduction by Stephanie Foster and Susan Markham
The Sisterhood: the Secret History of Women at the CIA by Liz Mundy
Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea’s Feminist Movement by Hawon Jung
Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World by Yepoka Yeebo
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