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Ackerman, Elliot, The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan, Penguin Press, 2022

 

Allison, Graham, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017

 

Bacevich, Andrew, After the Apocalypse: America's Role in a World Transformed (American Empire Project), Metropolitan Books, 2021

 

Bacevich, Andrew, The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory, Picador Paper; Reprint edition, 2021

 

Baker, James A. III, The Politics of Diplomacy, Putnam Adult, 1995

 

Beckley, Michael, Unrivaled: Why America Will Remain the World's Sole Superpower (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs), Cornell University Press; Unabridged edition, 2018

 

Berwick, Jeff, Charlie Robinson, The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire, Independently published, 2020

 

Bessner, Daniel, Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual (The United States in the World), Cornell University Press, 2018

 

Bevins, Vincent, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World, PublicAffairs, 2021

 

Blumenthal, Max, The Management of Savagery: How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump, Verso, 2020

 

Borgwardt, Elizabeth, Christopher McKnight Nichols, Rethinking American Grand Strategy, Oxford University Press, 2021

 

Brundage, W. Fitzhugh, Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition, Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2020

 

Clark, Robert M., William L. Mitchell, Deception: Counterdeception and Counterintelligence, CQ Press, 2018

 

Cooley, Alexander, Daniel Nexon, Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order, Oxford University Press, 2020

 

Cooper, Andrew Scott, The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East, Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition, 2012

 

Corera, Gordon, Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin's Spies, William Morrow, 2020

 

Crim, Brian E. E., Our Germans: Project Paperclip and the National Security State, Johns Hopkins University Press; Illustrated edition, 2020

 

Cull, Nicholas J., Public Diplomacy: Foundations for Global Engagement in the Digital Age (Contemporary Political Communication), Polity, 2019

 

Dempsey, Martin, No Time For Spectators: The Lessons That Mattered Most From West Point To The West Wing, Missionday, 2020

 

Edwards, Sebastian, The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism, Princeton University Press, 2023

 

Engdahl, F. William, Manifest Destiny: Democracy as Cognitive Dissonance, mine.books, 2018

 

Enloe, Cynthia, Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics, University of California Press; Second Edition, Completely Revised and Updated, 2014

 

Farrell, Henry, Abraham Newman, Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy, Holt Paperbacks, 2024

 

Fishman, Edward, Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare, Portfolio 2025

 

Freeman, Charles W. Jr., Arts of Power: Statecraft and Diplomacy, United States Inst of Peace Pr, 1997

 

Gates, Robert M., Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World, Knopf, 2020

 

Gellman, Barton, Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State, Penguin Press, 2021

 

Gordon, Philip H., Losing the Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East, St. Martin's Press, 2020

 

Gordon, Rebecca, American Nuremberg: The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes, Hot Books, 2016

 

Grandin, Greg, Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism (American Empire Project), Holt Paperbacks; Reprint edition, 2007

 

Grandin, Greg, Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman, Picador; Reprint edition, 2016

 

Greenberg, Andy, Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers, Anchor, 2020

 

Hamid, Shadi, The Case for American Power, Simon & Schuster, 2025

 

Hanhimäki, Jussi M., The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions), Oxford University Press; 2nd edition, 2015

 

Harding, Luke, The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man (Vintage), Vintage, 2014

 

Hastings, Max, The abyss : nuclear crisis Cuba 1962, Harper Perennial; Reprint edition, 2023

 

Herring, George C., The American Century and Beyond: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1893-2014 (Oxford History of the United States), Oxford University Press; 2nd edition, 2017

 

Hitchens, Christopher, Ariel Dorfman, The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Twelve, 2012

 

Hughes, Chase, The Ellipsis Manual: analysis and engineering of human behavior, Evergreen Press, 2017

 

Ikenberry, G. John, A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order, Yale University Press, 2020

 

Kennard, Matt, Racket, The: A Rogue Reporter vs The American Empire, Bloomsbury Academic, 2024

 

Kissinger, Henry, Diplomacy (Touchstone Book), Simon & Schuster, 1995

 

Kurtz-Phelan, Daniel, The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War, 1945-1947, W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition, 2019

 

Lisle, John, Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRA, St. Martin's Press, 2025

 

Loftus, John, America's Nazi Secret: An Insider's History, Trine Day; Second Edition, 2010

 

Luce, Edward, Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's Great Power Prophet, Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, 2025

 

Loftus, John, America's Nazi Secret: An Insider's History, Trine Day; Second Edition, 2010

 

Malone, Robert W. MD MS, Jill Glasspool Malone PhD, PsyWar: Enforcing the New World Order, Skyhorse, 2024

 

McKinney, Cynthia PhD, Sena Mike Gravel, How the US Creates "Sh*thole" Countries, Clarity Press, Inc., 2018

 

McMaster, H. R., Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World, Harper; Illustrated Edition, 2020

 

Mearsheimer, John J., The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities (Henry L. Stimson Letures), Yale University Press; Reprint edition, 2019

 

Melville, Doug, Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America's First Black Generals, Atria/Black Privilege Publishing, 2023

 

Michel, Casey, Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World, St. Martin's Press, 2024

 

Miller, Judith, William J Broad, Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War, Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition, 2002

 

Mirski, Sean A., We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus, PublicAffairs, 2023

 

Mitchell, A. Wess, Great Power Diplomacy: The Skill of Statecraft from Attila the Hun to Kissinger, Princeton University Press, 2025

 

Murray, Douglas, Mo Mi Baihuo, The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason, Harper Collins, 2023

 

O'Rourke, Lindsey A., Covert Regime Change: America's Secret Cold War (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs), Cornell University Press, 2021

 

Packer, George, Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century, Vintage, 2020

 

Perlroth, Nicole, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023

 

Reus-Smit, Christian, Duncan Snidal, The Oxford Handbook of International Relations (Oxford Handbooks), Oxford University Press, 2010

 

Rodman, Peter W., Henry Kissinger (Introduction), Presidential Command: Power, Leadership, and the Making of Foreign Policy from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010

 

Ross, Dennis, Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama, Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Reprint edition, 2016

 

Rovner, Joshua, Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs), Cornell University Press; Reprint edition, 2015

 

Sachs, Jeffrey D., A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism, Columbia University Press, 2018

 

Sanger, David E., Mary K. Brooks, New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West, Crown, 2024   

 

Sarotte, M. E., Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate, Yale University Press, 2021 

 

Schlosser, Eric, Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (ALA Notable Books for Adults), Penguin Books; Reprint edition, 2014

 

Schmitt, Carl, George Schwab, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty, University of Chicago Press, 2006

 

Schrader, Stuart, Badges without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing (American Crossroads) (Volume 56), University of California Press, 2019

 

Sciutto, Jim, The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America, Harper Paperbacks; Reprint edition, 2020

 

Shah, Raj M., Christopher Kirchhoff, Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War, Scribner, 2024

 

Snowden, Edward, Permanent Record, Metropolitan Books, 2019

 

Steil, Benn, The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War, Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition, 2019

 

Tamir, Yael, Why Nationalism, Princeton University Press (November 3, 2020

 

Tyson, Neil deGrasse, Avis Lang, Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military, W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition, 2019

 

Vine, David, The United States of War: A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State (Volume 48) (California Series in Public Anthropology), University of California Press, 2021

 

Vitalis, Robert, White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations (The United States in the World), Cornell University Press; Reprint edition, 2017

 

Walsh, Lawrence E., Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-up, W. W. Norton & Company, 1998

 

Walt, Stephen M., The Hell of Good Intentions: America's Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy, Picador; Reprint edition, 2019

 

Weiner, Tim, The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia, and Political Warfare 1945–2020, Holt Paperbacks, 2022

 

Weiner, Tim, The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century, Mariner Books, 2025   

 

Weir, Alison, Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

 

WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire, Verso; Reprint edition, 2016

 

Williams, Brian Glyn, Counter Jihad: America's Military Experience in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria (Haney Foundation Series), University of Pennsylvania Press; Reprint edition, 2018

 

Williams, William Appleman, Andrew J. Bacevich, Empire As A Way of Life: An Essay on the Causes and Character of America's Present Predicament Along with a Few Thoughts about an Alternative, Ig Publishing, 2006

 

Zegart, Amy B., Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence, Princeton University Press, 2023

 

Zeihan, Mr. Peter, The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder, Twelve; Reprint edition, 2016

 

Zeihan, Peter, The Absent Superpower: The Shale Revolution and a World Without America, Zeihan on Geopolitics, 2017

 

Zetter, Kim, Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon, Crown, 2015


Zoellick, Robert B., America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy, Twelve; Illustrated edition, 2020

 

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