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 SEPTEMBER 2, 2005			Last month
1		The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century Thomas L. Friedman Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50 Purchase at B&N.com	1
2		Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Jared Diamond Viking, $29.95 Purchase at B&N.com	2
3		The Fate of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair Martin Meredith PublicAffairs, $35.00 Purchase at B&N.com	--
4		9/11 Commission Report National Commission on Terrorist Attacks W.W. Norton & Company, $19.95 Purchase at B&N.com Barnes & Noble Books, $9.95 Purchase at B&N.com	10
5		China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World Ted C. Fishman Scribner, $26.00 Purchase at B&N.com	3
6		Secrets of the Kingdom: The Inside Story of the Secret Saudi-U.S. Connection Gerald L. Posner Random House, $24.95 Purchase at B&N.com	5
7		Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East Clyde V. Prestowitz Basic Books, $26.95 Purchase at B&N.com	4
8		The Case for Peace: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Can be Resolved Alan Dershowitz John Wiley & Sons, $22.95 Purchase at B&N.com	--
9		Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of America's Power David J. Rothkopf PublicAffairs, $29.95 Purchase at B&N.com	7
10		First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan Gary C. Schroen Presidio Press, $25.95 Purchase at B&N.com	9
11		Blind Spot: The Secret History of American Counterterrorism Timothy Naftali Basic Books, $26.00 Purchase at B&N.com	14
12		Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq Larry Diamond Times Books, $25.00 Purchase at B&N.com	15
13		Saudi Arabia Exposed: Inside a Kingdom in Crisis John R. Bradley Palgrave Macmillan, $22.95 Purchase at B&N.com	--
14		Offshore: The Dark Side of the Global Economy William Brittain-Catlin Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25.00 Purchase at B&N.com	13
15		I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation Michela Wrong HarperCollins, $25.95 Purchase at B&N.com	12

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 August 2005.

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