Foreign Policy (American)
Last update: 19 May 2026 01:17First version: 30 June 2006 (or before)
- Recommended (very, very, very misc.):
- Rosa Brooks, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
- Stephen S. Cohen and J. Bradford DeLong, The End of Infleunce: What Happens When Other Countries Have the Money
- Henry Farrell and Martha Finnemore, "The End of Hypocrisy: American Foreign Policy in the Age of Leaks", Foreign Affairs Nov.-Dec. 2013
- Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy
- Rashid Khalidi, Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East
- Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu, The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal
- Thomas Oatley, A Political Economy of American Hegemony: Buildups, Booms, and Busts
- Eric Rachway, Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America
- Adam Tooze
- Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
- The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916--1931
- Matthew Yglesias, Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats
- To read:
- Andrew J. Bacevich, American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy
- Lea Brilmayer, American Hegemony: Political Morality in a One-Superpower World
- Alexander Cooley, Base Politics: Democratic Change and the U.S. Military Overseas
- Colin Dueck, Reluctant Crusaders: Power, Culture, and Change in American Grand Strategy
- David Ekbladh, The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order
- P. Edward Haley, Strategies of Dominance: The Misdirection of U.S. Foreign Policy
- Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke, America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order
- Stanley Hoffmann, Gulliver Unbound: The Imperial Temptation and the War in Iraq
- G. John Ikenberry
- Liberal Order and Imperial Ambition: Essays on American Power and International Order
- Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order
- John Krige, American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe
- Melvyn P. Leffler, Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism: U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security, 1920-2015
- Michael C. Mann, Incoherent Empire
- Alex Mintz and Carly Wayne, The Polythink Syndrome: U.S. Foreign Policy Decisions on 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and ISIS
- Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
- Bound to Lead
- The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone
- William E. Odom and Robert Dujarric, America's Inadvertant Empire
- Benjamin I. Page and Marshall M. Bouton, The Foreign Policy Disconnect: What Americans Want from Our Leaders but Don't Get
- Dana Priest, The Mission
- Christian Reus-Smit, American Power and World Order
- David F. Schmitz, Thank God They're on Our Side: The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships, 1921--1965
- Douglas T. Stuart, Creating the National Security State: A History of the Law That Transformed America
- Peter Trubowitz, Defining the National Interest: Conflict and Change in American Foreign Policy [This would seem to seriously address what seems to me the obvious problem with the "realist" theory of international relations (and many similar doctrines): people are often open to persuasion about what their interests are, never mind large organizations like states...]
- Robert Vitalis, Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy [Review by Paul Musgrave in Political Science Quarterly]