Foreign Policy


Diplomacy
World Order
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
On China
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy since 1938
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis
What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker HoweThe Weight of Vengeance by Troy BickhamFrom Colony to Superpower by George C. HerringAmerican Machiavelli by John Lamberton HarperCastlereagh and Adams by Bradford Perkins
Foreign Policy in the Early Republic
44 books — 11 voters
The 231 Club by J. BartellThe Spy and the Traitor by Ben MacintyreA Spy Among Friends by Ben MacintyreAgent Zigzag by Ben MacintyreThe Ghost by Jefferson Morley
Best Espionage Books (nonfiction)
166 books — 116 voters

1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonJohn Adams by David McCulloughA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
U.S. History Reading List
470 books — 173 voters
Nixonland by Rick PerlsteinNixon and Kissinger by Robert DallekAll the President’s Men by Carl BernsteinDisputed Pasts by Cristina Buarque de HollandaThe Final Days by Bob Woodward
Richard Nixon (fiction and nonfiction)
144 books — 26 voters


Glenn Greenwald
Michael Ledeen—a contributing editor of National Review and a Freedom Scholar at the influential neoconservative think tank American Enterprise Institute—wrote on the National Review blog in November 2006: 'I had and have no involvement with our Iraq policy'. I opposed the military invasion of Iraq before it took place.' Ledeen, however, wrote in August 2002 of 'the desperately-needed and long overdue war against Saddam Hussein' and when he was interviewed for Front Page Magazine the same month ...more
Glenn Greenwald, A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency

Robert Kagan
Americans, in foreign policy, are torn to the point of schizophrenia. They are reluctant, than aggressive; asleep at the switch, then quick on the trigger; indifferent, then obsessed, then indifferent again. They act out of a sense of responsibility and then resent and fear the burden of responsibility they have taken on themselves. Their effect on the world, not surprisingly, is often the opposite of what they intend. Americans say they want stability in the international system, but they are o ...more
Robert Kagan, The World America Made

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