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 MARCH 1, 2006			Last month	Months on list
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	11
2		State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration James Risen Free Press, $26.00 Purchase at B&N.com	2	1
3		The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq George Packer Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26.00 Purchase at B&N.com	3	5
4		My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope L. Paul Bremer Simon & Schuster, $27.00 Purchase at B&N.com	4	1
5		The Cold War: A New History John Lewis Gaddis Penguin Press, $27.95 Purchase at B&N.com	5	1
6		The Osama Bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of Al Qaeda's Leader Peter L. Bergen Free Press, $26.00 Purchase at B&N.com	6	1
7		While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within Bruce Bawer Doubleday, $23.95 Purchase at B&N.com	--	--
8		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	13	18
9		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	9	13
10		Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 Tony Judt Penguin Press, $39.95 Purchase at B&N.com	7	5
11		Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Jared Diamond Viking, $29.95 Purchase at B&N.com	11	14
12		The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East Robert Fisk Knopf, $40.00 Purchase at B&N.com	12	4
13		Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground Robert D. Kaplan Random House, $27.95 Purchase at B&N.com	8	6
14		Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against America Walid Phares Palgrave Macmillan, $24.95 Purchase at B&N.com	15	4
15		The Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future — and What It Will Take to Win it Back Jeff Faux John Wiley & Sons, $27.95 Purchase at B&N.com	--	--

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 February 2006.

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