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.
L'heure des prédateurs
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
The European Federalist Papers by Leo KlinkersEU Federalism and Constitutionalism by Stefano BartoliniFederalism and the European Union by Michael BurgessThe British Tradition of Federalism by Michael BurgessFederal Britain by John Kendle
Federalism
8 books — 1 voter

International Relations by Joshua S. GoldsteinAn Accidental Diplomat by Eamon DeLaneyEssentials of International Relations by Karen A. Mingst
Foreign Service
3 books — 2 voters

Strategy by Lawrence FreedmanBuilding Power In Babylon by Courtney SharpeSleeping With the Enemy by Edouard PrisseThe Evolution of Nuclear Strategy by Lawrence FreedmanThinking Historically by Francis J. Gavin
Strategy
26 books — 3 voters


Fareed Zakaria
...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.
Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World

Aberjhani
In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

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