General reading for the entire FAO Community
Articles/Periodical/Academic Websites
– Brookings https://www.brookings.edu
– Carnegie Endowment for International Peace https://carnegieendowment.org/programs/russia/
– Center for New American Security https://www.cnas.org
– Center for Security and International Studies https://www.csis.org
– Chathan House https://www.chathamhouse.org
– Comprehensive Strategic Guidance https://usawc.libguides.com/strategic_guidance
– Congressional Research Service Reports https://fas.org/sgp/crs/index.html
– Council on Foreign Relations https://www.cfr.org
– Cross Domain Transfer website https://intelshare.intelink.gov/sites/u-safesource/SitePages/Home.aspx
– Culture Grams http://online.culturegrams.com/
– Defense Security Cooperation University https://www.dscu.mil/
– European Commission Country Reports https://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/headquarters-homepage/area/geo_en
– Foreign Affairs https://www.foreignaffairs.com/
– Foreign Assistance and Foreign Aid Explorer https://foreignassistance.gov/consolidation
– Foreign Military Studies Office https://community.apan.org/wg/tradoc-g2/fmso/
– Foreign Policy https://foreignpolicy.com/
– Foreign Terrorist Organizations https://www.state.gov/foreign-terrorist-organizations/
– Geopolitical Futures (https://geopoliticalfutures.com/welcome/)
– How the Army Runs: A Senior Leader Reference Handbook https://publications.armywarcollege.edu/publication-detail.cfm?publicationID=3736
– JSTOR (https://www.jstor.org)
– Observatory of Economic Complexity https://oec.world
– Observer Research Foundation https://www.orfonline.org/
– Operational Environmental Watch http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil
– Real Clear World https://www.realclearworld.com
– State Department Foreign Service Officer Reading List https://careers.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Suggested-Reading-List-Aug2013.pdf
– The Atlantic Council (https://www.atlanticcouncil.org)
– The Diplomat https://thediplomat.com/
– The Economist https://www.economist.com/
– The Jamestown Foundation https://jamestown.org/programs/edm/
– The National Interest https://nationalinterest.org/
– The National Interest Magazine https://nationalinterest.org
– US Army War College Publications https://publications.armywarcollege.edu/
Books
– Acemoglu, Daron., Robinson, James. Why Nations Fail
– Acheson, Dean. Present at the Creation
– Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow
– Allison, Graham. Essence of Decision
– Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities
– Bacevich, Andrew. Washington Rules
– Barkow, Rachel E. Prisoners of Politics
– Becker Gavin. The Gift of Fear
– Beckley, Michael. Unrivaled
– Betts, Dick. American Force
– Betts, Richard. American Force: Dangers, Delusions, and Dilemmas in National Security
– Boot, Max. Invisible Armies; The Savage Wars of Peace
– Borgwardt, Elizabeth. A New Deal for the World
– Bowden, Mark. Guests of the Ayatollah
– Bradford, Ernle. Thermopylae
– Brafman, Ori., Beckstrom, Rod. The Starfish and the Spider
– Brands, Hal. What Good Is Grand Strategy?
– Bricker, Darrell. Empty Planet
– Brooks, Rosa. How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything
– Brose, Christian. The Kill Chain
– Bryce, Robert. A Question of Power
– Burns, William J. The Back Channel
– Campbell, Kurt. The Pivot: The Future of American Statecraft in Asia
– Cassara, John A. Trade-Based Money Laundering
– Castaneda, Ernesto. Collective Violence, Contentious Politics, and Social Change
– Clausewitz, Carl. On War
– Cohen, Eliot. Supreme Command
– Collier, Paul. The Bottom Billion
– Cox, Edward. Grey Eminence: Fox Conner and the Art of Mentorship
– Crile, George. Charlie Wilson’s War
– DeSoto, Hernando. The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
– Diamond, Jared. Crisis; Upheaval
– Diamond, Larry. The Spirit of Democracy
– Drezner, Daniel W. Theories of International Politics and Zombies: Revived Edition
– Dubik, James. Just War Reconsidered: Strategy, Ethics, and Theory
– Dujarric, Robert., Odom, William E. , Robert. America’s Inadvertent Empire
– Easterly, William. The White Man’s Burden
– Edel, Charles N. Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic
– Evans, M.S. Blacklisted by History
– Evans, Richard J. The Pursuit of Power
– Fabey, Michael. Crashback
– Fehrenbach, T.R. This Kind of War
– Finnemore, Martha. The Purpose of Intervention
– Fishman, Charles. One Giant Leap
– Frank, Robert Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy
– Frankopan, Peter. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
– Freedman, Lawrence. Strategy
– Freidman, Rose., Freidman, Milton. Free To Choose
– Friedman, George. Next 100 Years; Storm before the Calm
– Friedman, Thomas. The Lexus and the Olive Tree; The World is Flat
– Fromkin, Daniel. A Peace to End All Peace
– Gates, Robert. Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
– Gertz, Bill. Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China’s Drive
– Gladwell, Malcolm. Talking to Strangers
– Gordon, Michael. Cobra II
– Grandin, Greg. Fordlandia
– Greenburg, Andy. Sandworm: A new era of cyberwar and the hunt for the Kremlin’s most dangerous hackers
– Greene, Robert. The Laws of Human Nature
– Halberstam, David. Best and Brightest; The Coldest Winter
– Hanson, Victor. Carnage and Culture
– Heilbronner, Robert. The Worldly Philosophers
– Hill, Charles. Grand Strategies
– Hobbs, Thomas. Leviathan
– Hoffer, Eric. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
– Hoffman, Bryce G. American Icon
– Holcombe, Randall. Liberty in Peril
– Hook, Steven. US Foreign Policy
– Hopkirk, Peter. The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia
– Hudson, Valerie. Sex & World Peace; The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide
– Huntington, Samuel. The Soldier and the State
– Huntington, Samuel P. The Clash of Civilizations
– Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World; Brave New World Revisited
– Ikenberry, G. After Victory
– Janowitz, Morris. The Professional Soldier: A Social and Political Portrait
– Jervis, Robert. Perception and Misperception in International Politics
– Johnson, Neil. Simply Complexity
– Jones, Gregg. Honor in the Dust
– Jones, Seth G. In the Graveyard of Empires
– Judge, Edward. The Cold War Through Documents a Global History
– Kagan, Robert. The World America Made
– Kaplan, Robert. Imperial Grunts
– Kaplan, Robert. Asia’s Cauldron
– Kaplan, Robert. The Coming Anarchy
– Kennedy, Paul. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
– Killcullen, David. Out of the Mountains
– Kinzer, Stehen. The Brothers; Reset, Iran, Turkey and American Future
– Kleinfeld, Rachel. A Savage Order
– Lawrence, T.E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom
– Lebovic, James. Planning to Fail; The Limits of U.S. Military Capabilities
– Lebow, Richard N. Why Nations Fight: Past and Future Motives for War
– Levine, Robert. A Geography of Time
– Liu, Cixin. The Three Body Problem
– Lohmeier, Matthew. Irresistible Revolution
– Lowenthall, Mark. Intelligence: from Secrets to Policy
– MacLean, Fitzroy. Eastern Approaches
– Mankiw, Gregory. Macroeconomics
– Mann, Charles. The Wizard and the Prophet
– Marquet, David L. Turn the Ship Around
– Marston, Daniel., Malkasian, Carter. Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare
– Mattis, James. Call sign Chaos
– May, Ernest R., Neustadt, Richard F. Thinking in Time
– McCullough, David. Mornings on Horseback
– McDougall, Walter. Promised Land, Crusader State
– Mcllroy, James G. A Military Attaché in Japan
– McMahon, Dinny. Pacific: China’s Great Wall of Dept
– McMaster, H.R. Dereliction of Duty; Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World
– McRaven, Williams H. Make your Bed
– Meacham, Jon. The Soul of America
– Mead, Walter R. Special Providence
– Mearsheimer, John. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
– Meyer, G.J. A World Undone
– Migdal, Joel. Strong Societies and Weak States
– Milanovic, Branko. Global Inequality
– Morgan, Robert. Boone
– Moyo, Dambisa. Dead Aid
– Muth, Jorg. Command Culture
– Nagl, John. Learning to eat soup with a knife
– Naylor, Sean. The Secret History of JSOC
– Newport, Cal. Deep Work
– Nichols, Michael P. The Lost Art of Listening
– Nordman, Doug. The Military Guide to Financial Independence & Retirement
– Nye, Joseph. Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation
– O’Sullivan, Meghan. Windfall How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics
– Odom, William. America’s Inadvertent Empire
– Overy, Richard. Why the Allies Won
– Pape, Robert. Bombing to Win
– Phillips, Donald. Lincoln on Leadership
– Pillar, Paul R. Why America Misunderstands the World
– Pilon, Juliana. The Art of Peace
– Porch, Douglas. Counterinsurgency
– Posen, Barry R. Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy
– Powell, Jim. FDR’s Folly
– Rasmussen, Louise., Sieck, Winston. Save Your Ammo: Working Across Cultures for National Security
– Rid, Thomas. Active Measures
– Ripley, Amanda. The Unthinkable
– Rose, Gideon. Neoclassical Realism and Theories of Foreign Policy
– Scazzero, Peter. The Emotionally Healthy Leader
– Schelling, Thomas. Arms and Influence
– Schultz, Dam. Economic Policy Beyond the Headlines
– Scott, James. Seeing Like a State
– Sheehan, Neil. A Bright Shining Lie
– Sinek, Simon. Leaders Eat Last
– Singer, P.W. Likewar
– Siracusa, Joseph. Presidential Doctrines: U.S. National Security from George Washington to Barack Obama
– Sky, Emma. The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq
– Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations
– Smith, Perry M. Assignment Pentagon: How to Excel in a Bureaucracy
– Snyder, Timothy. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
– Starvridis, James. Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World’s Oceans
– Stavridis, James. 2034
– Steil, Ben. The Marshall Plan
– Stein, Mark. How the States got their Shapes
– Strassen, Nadine. Hate: Why We Should Resist it with Free Speech, Not Censorship
– Strittmatter, Kai. We Have Been Harmonized
– Taleb, Nassim N. The Black Swan
– Tetlock, Philip. Superforcasting
– Tocqueville, Alexis. Democracy in America
– Tolstoy, Leo. Hadji Murat
– Tuchman, Barbara. Guns of August
– Voss, Chris. Never Split the Difference
– Walt, Stephen H. The Hell of Good Intentions
– Waltz, Kenneth. Theory of International Politics
– Wedeymer, Albert C. America’s Unsung Strategist in WWII
– Weiner, Tim. Legacy of Ashes
– Wheelan, Charles. Naked Economics
– Williamson, Kevin D. The Smallest Minority
– Willink, Jocko. Extreme Ownership
– Wolfram, Herwig. The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples
– Wright, Robert. Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
– Wright, Thomas. All Measures Short of War
– Yergin, Daniel. The New Map; Accidental Superpower; Absent Superpower; Disunited Nations; The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations; The Quest
– Yost, David S. NATO’s Balancing Act
– Zeihan, Peter. The Accidental Superpower
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