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 MAY 1, 2007			Last month	Months on list
1		The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century [Updated and Expanded] Thomas L. Friedman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27.50 Purchase at B&N.com	2	25
2		Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower Zbigniew Brzezinski Basic Books, $26.95 Purchase at B&N.com	3	1
3		Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present Michael B. Oren Norton, $35.00 Purchase at B&N.com	4	3
4		Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid Jimmy Carter Simon & Schuster, $27.00 Purchase at B&N.com	1	4
5		The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Lawrence Wright Knopf, $27.95 Purchase at B&N.com	7	8
6		Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic Chalmers Johnson Metropolitan Books, $26.00 Purchase at B&N.com	5	2
7		The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace Ali Allawi Yale University Press, $28.00 Purchase at B&N.com	--	--
8		Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone Rajiv Chandrasekaran Knopf, $25.95 Purchase at B&N.com	6	7
9		Sacred Causes: The Clash of Religion and Politics, from the Great War to the War on Terror Michael Burleigh HarperCollins, $27.95 Purchase at B&N.com	--	--
10		Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World Margaret MacMillan Random House, $27.95 Purchase at B&N.com	--	--
11		Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq Thomas E. Ricks Penguin Press, $27.95 Purchase at B&N.com | Read the review	10	8
12		China: Fragile Superpower: How China's Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise Susan Shirk Oxford University Press, $27.00 Purchase at B&N.com	--	--
13		Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror Robert Young Pelton Crown, $24.00 Purchase at B&N.com	13	4
14		Planet India: How the Fastest-Growing Democracy is Transforming America and the World Mira Kamdar Scribner, $26.00 Purchase at B&N.com	--	--
15		Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall and Catastrophic Legacy Andrew Cockburn Scribner, $25.00 Purchase at B&N.com	9	1

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 April 2007.

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