The top-selling hardcover books on American foreign policy and international affairs. Rankings are based on national sales at Barnes & Noble stores and Barnes & Noble.com.

POSTED AUGUST 5, 2004			Last month
1		Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror Anonymous Brassey's, $27.50 Purchase at B&N.com	--
2		Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It Peter G. Peterson Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $24.00 Purchase at B&N.com	--
3		Plan of Attack Bob Woodward Simon & Schuster, $28.00 Purchase at B&N.com | Read review	1
4		Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror Richard A. Clarke Free Press, $27.00 Purchase at B&N.com | Read review	2
5		House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties Craig Unger Scribner, $26.00 Purchase at B&N.com	4
6		How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization Franklin Foer HarperCollins, $24.95 Purchase at B&N.com	--
7		The Connection: How al Qaeda's Collaboration With Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America Stephen F. Hayes HarperCollins, $19.95 Purchase at B&N.com	3
8		America the Vulnerable: How Our Government Is Failing to Protect Us From Terrorism Stephen Flynn HarperCollins, $25.95 Purchase at B&N.com	--
9		A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies James Bamford Random House, $26.95 Purchase at B&N.com	5
10		Secret History of the Iraq War Yossef Bodansky HarperCollins, $27.95 Purchase at B&N.com	10
11		The Interrogators: Inside the Secret War Against al Qaeda Chris Mackey & Greg Miller Little, Brown, $25.95 Purchase at B&N.com	--
12		Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity Samuel P. Huntington Simon & Schuster, $27.00 Purchase at B&N.com | Read review	7
13		The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century Thomas P.M. Barnett Putnam Publishing Group, $26.95 Purchase at B&N.com	6
14		Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 Steve Coll Penguin Press, $29.95 Purchase at B&N.com	8
15		The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World Paul Roberts Houghton Mifflin, $26.00 Purchase at B&N.com	11

The bestseller list is published monthly by Foreign Affairs magazine. Rankings are based on national sales at Barnes & Noble stores and Barnes & Noble.com in July 2004.

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