- James Goldgeier
- The Americans
- Deborah D. Avant, The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security
- Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
- Steve Coll, Directorate S: The CIA, and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, and Bruce Patton, Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
- Paul Holden, Indefensible: Seven Myths that Sustain the Global Arms Trade
- Robert Jervis, Perception and Misconception in International Politics
- Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
- Hans Morgethau, Politics Among Nations
- Occupied
- Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
- Ben Rhodes, The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House
- Joe Sacco, Palestine
- Elizabeth Saunders, Leaders at War: How Presidents Shape Military Interventions
- Brent Steele, Ontological Security in International Relations: Self-Identity and the IR State
- Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
- Kenneth N. Waltz, Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis
- Earl Weaver, Winning!
- Jack Goldstone, Political Demography: How Population Changes Are Reshaping International Security and National Politics
- Justin Vaïsse, Zbigniew Brzezinski: America’s Grand Strategist
- Kori Schake, Safe Passage: The Transition from British to American Hegemony
- Margaret Maron
- Charlene Harris
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