International Relations

International relations (IR) or international affairs, depending on academic institution, is either a field of political science, an interdisciplinary academic field similar to global studies, or an entirely independent academic discipline in which students take a variety of internationally focused courses in social science and humanities disciplines. In all cases, the field studies relationships between political entities (polities) such as sovereign states, inter-governmental organizations (IGOs), international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), other non-governmental organizations (NGO ...more

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
If Russia Wins: A Scenario
Autocracy, Inc.
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Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare
The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company
The World After Gaza: A Short History
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
Diplomacy
Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
World Order
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
Theory of International Politics
The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations
Politics Among Nations
On China
Arms and Influence (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series)
Perception and Misperception in International Politics
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Journey to the West by Biao  WangAI Superpowers by Kai-Fu LeeBeijing for Beginners by Gary FinneganInconvenient Memories by Anna Wang YuanA Businessman's Guide to the Wholesale Markets of Guangzhou by Christian D. Taulkinghorn
To Understand Contemporary China
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The European Federalist Papers by Leo KlinkersEU Federalism and Constitutionalism by Stefano BartoliniFederalism and the European Union by Michael BurgessEurope's Last Chance by Guy VerhofstadtThe British Tradition of Federalism by Michael Burgess
Federalism
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Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondGhost Wars by Steve CollWhy Nations Fail by Daron AcemoğluOn China by Henry KissingerThe Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama
FSO Reading List
122 books — 60 voters
The Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Concept of the Political by Carl SchmittNuclear North Korea’s War Scenarios by Hwee-rhak ParkUtopia by Thomas MorePrisoners of Geography by Tim  Marshall
International Relations
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If blue helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run.
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Madeleine K. Albright
More broadly, it is vital for leaders to work across international boundaries to minimize the number of people who feel the need to leave their home countries in the first place. That requires building healthy democracies, fostering peace, and generating prosperity from the ground up. However, success in that endeavor demands a way of looking at the world that recognizes the humanity we share with one another, and the interests that nations have in common. Those who are content to look inward, a ...more
Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

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