Books for Review

Below is a list of books that Global Politics is very interested in publishing a review of. Please reach out with a proposed timeline and title for the review you are interested in. If you wish to write a review and do not see the book on this page, Global Politics also welcomes ideas for reviews. As evidenced by the list, Global Politics is interested in reviews of books of all ages with a focus on applying arguments to todays world.

The Classics

  • David Ricardo, On the Principals of Political Economy and Taxation, 1817
  • Aristotle, Politics.
  • Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince.
  • Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Books 1-5, 1776
  • Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique on Modern Political Economy, Vol. 1-3.
  • Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835.
  • Carl von Clausewitz, On War, 1816.

International Relations Theory

  • G. John Ikenberry, After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order After Major Wars, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.)[New Edition Published 2019]
  • John Mearishimer, The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018)

Nuclear Weapons

  • Paul Boyer, By the Bombs Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994)

Authoritarianism/Comparative Politics

  • Jennifer Ghandi, Political Institutions Under Dictatorship, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)

International Political Economy

  • Eswar S. Prassad, The Dollar Trap: How the U.S. Dollar Tightened its Grip on Global Finance, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015)
  • David Baldwin, Economic Statecraft, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985)[New Edition Published 2020]
  • Dale C. Copeland, Economic Interdependence and War, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015)
  • Peter Zeihan, The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization, (New York: Harper Business, 2022)

Intelligence

  • Christopher Andrew, For the President’s Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush, (New York: Harper Perennial, 1996)
  • Michael V. Hayden, The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies, (New York: Penguin Press, 2018)

International Development

  • William Easterly, The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. (New York: Penguin, 2007)

Grand Strategy

  • Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy, (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994)
  • David Vine, Base Nation: How US Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World, (New York: Skyhorse, 2017)

General Non-Fiction

  • Tom Nichols, The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017)

Foreign Policy Analysis

  • Graham T. Allison, The Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis 2nd Edition, (New York: Pearson, 1999)

Biography/Memoir

  • John Bolton, The Room Where it Happened: A White House Memoir, (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2020)

Cybersecurity

  • David E. Sanger, The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age, (New York: Penguin, 2019)
  • Adam Segal, The Hacked World Order: How Nations Fight, Trade, Maneuver, and Manipulate in the Digital Age, (New York: Public Affairs, 2017).
  • Fred Kaplan, Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War, (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2017)

The Middle East

  • Steve Coll, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the C.I.A., Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, (New York: Penguin, 2004)
  • Steve Coll, Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, (New York: Penguin, 2018)
  • Elliot Abrams, Realism and Democracy: American Foreign Policy After the Arab Spring, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018)
  • Itamar Rabinovich and Carmit Valensi, Syrian Requiem: The Civil War and Its Aftermath, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021)

East Asia

  • Tobias S. Harris, The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan, (London: Hurst, 2020)
  • Bill Hayton, The Invention of China, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020)
  • Brendan Taylor, Dangerous Decade: Taiwan’s Security and Crisis Management, (New York: Routledge, 2019)
  • David Albright and Andrea Stricker, Taiwan’s Nuclear Weapons Program: Nuclear Weapons On-Demand, (Washington D.C.: Institute for Science and International Security Press, 2018)

Europe/Eurasia

  • Ann Applebaum, Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine, (New York: Anchor, 2017)
  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation vol. 1-3, (New York: Harper Perennial, 2007)

South America

  • Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1997)

Africa

  • Tom Burgis, The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth, (New York: Public Affairs, 2015)
  • Adam Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, (New York: Mariner, 1999)

North America

  • Maya Kornberg, Inside Congressional Committees: Function and Dysfunction in the Legislative Process, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023[forthcoming])
  • Peter Bergen, United States of Jihad: Who are America’s Homegrown Terrorists, and How Do We Stop Them?, (New York: Broadway Books, 2017)