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
Autocracy, Inc.
Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
If Russia Wins: A Scenario
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
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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
House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia
Iran's Grand Strategy: A Political History
After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made
Tomorrow Is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine
Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
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
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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Nobel Peace Prize
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David Henry Hwang
As soon as a Western man comes into contact with the East -- he's already confused. The West has sort of an international rape mentality towards the East. ...Basically, 'Her mouth says no, but her eyes say yes.' The West thinks of itself as masculine -- big guns, big industry, big money -- so the East is feminine -- weak, delicate, poor...but good at art, and full of inscrutable wisdom -- the feminine mystique. Her mouth says no, but her eyes say yes. The West believes the East, deep down, wants ...more
David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly

Madeleine K. Albright
Finally, and even more seriously, I fear a return to the international climate that prevailed in the 1920s and '30s, when the United States withdrew from the global stage and countries everywhere pursued what they perceived to be their own interests without regard to larger and more enduring goals. When arguing that every age has its own Fascism, the Italian writer and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi added that the critical point can be reached “not just through the terror of police intimidation, ...more
Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

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