PS editors ask Project Syndicate contributors to select the books that most influenced their thinking over the past year.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat examines three additions to the autocrat's playbook that set the US president apart from his contemporaries.

Martin Baron interviewed by Deputy Managing Editor Rachel Danna about the forces endangering the fourth estate.

Radosław Sikorski considers what is at stake as revisionist powers seek to demolish the postwar international order.

Yvette Cooper appeals to world leaders to revive the spirit that animated the Locarno Treaties a century ago.

Lea Ypi considers what the near future could hold for a world that seems to have lost its way.

Günther Thallinger & Ludovic Subran urge policymakers to stand by a proven approach that has guided polluting industries toward cleaner practices.

Johanna Sydow & Nsama Chikwanka warns that resource extraction is endangering vulnerable communities and fueling conflict worldwide.

Andrea Meza Murillo & Bradley Hiller consider how to mobilize the necessary financing for drought resilience and land preservation and restoration.

Silvia Sgherri thinks the US needs to help build an open, interoperable, standards-based monetary order for the 21st century.

José Manuel Barroso reflects on what has made Gavi so successful, even as other international organizations have become paralyzed.

Arvind Subramanian explains how both the United States and China are making life harder for developing countries.

Richard K. Sherwin argues that law and public policy must protect people from covert algorithmic manipulation.

Yanis Varoufakis shows that the combined effect of all three has left Europe the most shocked and shaken of all.

Carl Bildt considers the implications of the Trump administration's recently released National Security Strategy.