Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Daron Acemoğlu

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

Shoshana Zuboff

The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide

Valerie M. Hudson

The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

Joseph Henrich

Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East

Yonah Jeremy Bob

Perception and Misperception in International Politics

Robert Jervis

The Strategy of Conflict

Thomas C. Schelling

Arms and Influence (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series)

Thomas C. Schelling

The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons Since 1945 (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 87)

Nina Tannenwald

How the Weak Win Wars: A Theory of Asymmetric Conflict (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 99)

Ivan M. Arreguín-Toft

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Steven Pinker

The Nine Nations of North America

Joel Garreau

Dying by the Sword: The Militarization of US Foreign Policy

Monica Duffy Toft

Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?

Graham Allison

Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient

Edward W. Said

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

Daniel Immerwahr

The End of History and the Last Man

Francis Fukuyama

So You Want to Own Greenland?: Lessons from the Vikings to Trump

Elizabeth Buchanan

The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism

John Gray

The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal

William J. Burns

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

Sarah Wynn-Williams

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

Benedict Anderson