The Causes of War
Levy, Jack. "The Causes of War: A Review of Theories." In Behavior, Society, and Nuclear War. 2 vols. Edited by Philip E. Tetlock, Jo L. Husbands, Robert Jervis, Paul C. Stern, and Charles Tilly. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1989, 1990, pp. 1:209-333. ISBN: 9780195057652.
Levy, Jack S. "The Causes of War and the Conditions of Peace." In Annual Review of Political Science. Vol. 1. 2010, pp. 139-165. ISBN: 9780824333133.
Cashman, Greg. What Causes War? An Introduction to Theories of International Conflict. New York, NY: Lexington Books, 1999. ISBN: 9780739101124.
Rotberg, Robert I., and Theodore K. Rabb, eds. The Origins and Prevention of Major Wars. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1989. ISBN: 9780521379557.
Waltz, Kenneth N. Man, the State, and War. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780231125376.
Blainey, Geoffrey. The Causes of War. New York, NY: Free Press; 3rd ed. 1988. ISBN: 9780029035917.
Falk, Richard A., and Samuel S. Kim. The War System: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1981. ISBN: 9780865310421.
Midlarsky, Manus I., ed. Handbook of War Studies. Boston, MA: Unwin Hyman, 1989. ISBN: 9780044970552.
Bramson, Leon, and George W. Goethals, eds. War: Studies from Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology. Revised ed. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1968.
Brodie, Bernard. "Some Theories on the Causes of War." In War and Politics. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1973, pp. 276-340. ISBN: 9780023150203
Kagan, Donald. On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace. New York, NY: Doubleday, 1994.
Dougherty, James E., and Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. Contending Theories of International Relations: A Comprehensive Survey. 3rd ed. New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1990. Parts.
Kurtz, Lester, ed. Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict. 3 vols. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780122270116.
Arms and War
Schelling, Thomas. Arms and Influence. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. Parts. ISBN: 9780300143379.
Schelling, Thomas, and Morton Halperin. Strategy and Arms Control. New York, NY: Twentieth Century Fund, 1961. Parts.
Jervis, Robert. "Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma." World Politics (January 1978): 167-214.
Lynn-Jones, Sean M. "Offense-Defense Theory and its Critics." Security Studies 4, no. 4 (Summer 1995): 660-694.
Borg, Marlies Ter. "Reducing Offensive Capabilities - the Attempt of 1932." Journal of Peace Research 29, no. 2 (1992): 145-160.
Levy, Jack S. "Declining Power and the Preventive Motivation for War." World Politics 40, no. 1 (October 1987): 82-107.
Misperception
Jervis, Robert. "War and Misperception." In The Origins and Prevention of Major Wars. Edited by Robert I. Rotberg and Theodore K. Rabb. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1989, pp. 101-126. ISBN: 9780521379557.
———. "Hypotheses on Misperception." World Politics 20, no. 3 (April 1968): 454-479. Also reprinted in Power, Action and Interaction. Edited by George H. Quester. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1971, pp. 104-132. ISBN: 9780316728966.
Janis, Irving L. Victims of Groupthink. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1972. ISBN: 9780395140444.
May, Ernest R. 'Lessons' of the Past: The Use and Misuse of History in American Foreign Policy. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1973. ISBN: 9780195018905.
Wildavsky, Aaron. "The Self-Evaluating Organization." Public Administration Review (September/October 1972): 509-520.
Militarism
Berghahn, Volker R. Militarism: The History of an International Debate, 1861-1979. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780521269056.
Bucholz, Arden. "Militarism." In Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict. 3 vols. Edited by Lester Kurtz. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1999, pp. 2:423-433. ISBN: 9780122270116.
McLauchlan, Gregory. "Military-Industrial Complex, Contemporary Significance." In Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict. 3 vols. Edited by Lester Kurtz. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1999, pp. 2:475-486. ISBN: 9780122270116.
Rourke, Francis E. Bureaucracy and Foreign Policy. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972, pp. 18-40. ISBN: 9780801813993.
Vagts, Alfred. Defense and Diplomacy: The Soldier and the Conduct of Foreign Relations. New York, NY: Kings Crown, 1956, pp. 263-377 and 477-490.
Cobden, Richard, ed. "The Three Panics." In Political Writings of Richard Cobden. London, UK: 1887.
Heise, Juergen Arthur. Minimum Disclosure: How the Pentagon Manipulates the News. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1979. ISBN: 9780393056969.
Shearer, Derek. "The Pentagon Propaganda Machine." In The Pentagon Watchers. Edited by Leonard Rodberg and Derek Shearer. New York, NY: Anchor, 1970, pp. 99-142.
Brodie, Bernard. War and Politics. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1973, pp. 479-496.
See also representative writings on war and international affairs by military officers, e.g., Friedrich von Bernhardi, Ferdinand Foch, Giulio Douhet, Nathan Twining, Thomas Powers, and Curtis LeMay.
Gender and War
Goldstein, Joshua S. War and Gender. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780521807166.
Forcey, Linda Rennie. "Feminist and Peace Perspectives on Women." In Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict. 3 vols. Edited by Lester Kurtz. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1999, pp. 2:13-20. ISBN: 9780122270116.
Turpin, Jennifer. "Women and War." In Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict. 3 vols. Edited by Lester Kurtz. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1999, pp. 3:801-813. ISBN: 9780122270109.
Tessler, Mark, Jodi Nachtwey, and Audra Grant. "Further Tests of the Women and Peace Hypothesis: Evidence from Cross-National Survey Research in the Middle East." International Studied Quarterly 43, no. 3 (September 1999): 519-532.
Zalewski, Marysia, and Jane Parpart, eds. The "Man" Question in International Relations. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1997. ISBN: 9780813323961.
Hunter, Anne E., ed. On Peace, War, and Gender: A Challenge to Genetic Explanations. New York, NY: The Feminist Press, 1991. ISBN: 9781558610255.
Held, Virginia. "Gender as an Influence on Cultural Norms Relating to War and the Environment." In Cultural Norms, War and the Environment. Edited by Arthur H. Westing. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1988, pp. 44-51. ISBN: 9780198291251.
Cohn, Carol. "Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals." Signs 12, no. 4 (Summer 1987): 687-718. Within and Without: Women, Gender, and Theory.
Ruddick, Sara. Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780807014097.
Nationalism - General Works
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Revised ed. London, UK: Verso, 1991. ISBN: 9781844670864.
Van Evera, Stephen. "Hypotheses on Nationalism and War." International Security 18, no. 4 (Spring 1994): 5-39.
Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780801475009.
Greenfeld, Liah. Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780674603196.
Hobsbawm, E. J. Nations and Nationalism Since 1780. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780521439619.
Posen, Barry R. "Nationalism, the Mass Army, and Military Power." International Security 18, no. 2 (Fall 1993): 80-124.
Smith, Anthony D. The Ethnic Origins of Nations. Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell, 2009. ISBN: 9780631161691.
———. Theories of Nationalism. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Holmes & Meier , 1983. ISBN: 9780841908451
Snyder, Louis L. Encyclopedia of Nationalism. New York, NY: Paragon House, 1990. ISBN: 9781557781673.
Ingroup-Outgroup Dynamics
Sherif, Muzafer, and Carolyn W. Sherif. Groups in Harmony and Tension: An Integration of Studies on Intergroup Relations. New York, NY: Octagon Books, 1973.
Coser, Lewis A. The Functions of Social Conflict. New York, NY: Free Press, 1956.
Nationalist Mythmaking
Dance, E. H. History the Betrayer: A Study in Bias. London, UK: Hutchinson, 1960. ISBN: 9780090574223.
Fitzgerald, Frances. America Revised: History Schoolbooks in the Twentieth Century. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1979. ISBN: 9780316284240.
Hayes, Carlton J. H. "The Propagation of Nationalism." In Essays on Nationalism. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1937, pp. 61-92.
Herwig, Holger. "Clio Deceived: Patriotic Self-Censorship in Germany After the Great War." In Military Strategy and the Origins of the First World War. Edited by Steven E. Miller, Sean M. Lynn-Jones and Stephen Van Evera. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991, pp. 262-301. ISBN: 9780691023496.
Kennedy, Paul M. "The Decline of Nationalistic History in the West, 1900-1970." Journal of Contemporary History 8, no. 1 (January 1973): 77-100.
Lewis, Bernard. History: Remembered, Recovered, Invented. Unknown, 1975.
Shafer, Boyd C. Faces of Nationalism. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972. ISBN: 9780151645190.
Zinn, Howard. The Politics of History. Boston, MA: Beacon, 1970, pp. 5-34 and 288-319. ISBN: 9780807054505.
Democratic Peace Theory, Dictatorial Peace Theory
Andreski, Stanislav. "On the Peaceful Disposition of Military Dictatorships." Journal of Strategic Studies 3, no. 3 (December 1980): 3-10.
Brown, Michael E., Sean M. Lynn- Jones and Steven E. Miller, eds. Debating the Democratic Peace: An International Security Reader. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780262522137.
Gleditsch, Nils Petter. "Peace and Democracy." In Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict. 3 vols. Edited by Lester Kurtz. San Diego: Academic Press, 1999, pp. 2:643-652. ISBN: 9780122270116.
———. "Democracy and Peace." Journal of Peace Research 29, no. 4 (1992): 369-376.
Maoz, Zeev, and Bruce Russett. "Normative and Structural Causes of Democratic Peace, 1946-1986." American Political Science Review 87, no. 3 (September 1993): 624-638.
Russett, Bruce, William Anholis, Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, and Zeev Maoz. Grasping the Democratic Peace: Principles for a Post-Cold War World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Human Instinct Theories of War
Brown, Seyom. The Causes and Prevention of War. 2nd ed. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1987, pp. 9-15.
Dougherty, James E., and Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. Contending Theories of International Relations. 3rd ed. New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1997, pp. 274-288. ISBN: 9780060417062.
James, William. "The Moral Equivalent of War." In War: Studies from Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology. Revised ed. Edited by Leon Bramson and George W. Goethals. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1968, pp. 21-31.
Kim, Samuel S. "The Lorenzian Theory of Aggression and Peace Research: A Critique." In The War System: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Edited by Richard A. Falk and Samuel S. Kim. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1980, pp. 82-115. ISBN: 9780865310421.
Somit, Albert. "Humans, Chimps, and Bonobos: The Biological Bases of Aggression, War, and Peacemaking." Journal of Conflict Resolution 34, no. 3 (September 1990): 553-582.
Waltz, Kenneth N. Man, the State, and War. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1969, pp. 16-79.
Religion and War
Barkun, Michael. Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780807846384.
Freedman, David Noel, and Michael J. McClymond. "Religious Traditions, Violence, and Nonviolence." In Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict. Vol. 3. Edited by Lester Kurtz. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1999, pp. 229-239. ISBN: 9780122270109.
A survey of the problem of religion and war.
Huntington, Samuel P. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1996. ISBN: 9780684811642.
Spencer, Robert, and David Pryce-Jones. Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions about the World's Fastest-Growing Faith. San Francisco, CA: Encounter Books, 2002. ISBN: 9781893554580.
Civil War, its Control
Stedman, Stephen John, Donald Rothchild, and Elizabeth M Cousens, eds. Ending Civil Wars: The Implementation of Peace Agreements. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2002. ISBN: 9781588260833.
Henderson, Errol A. "Civil Wars." In Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict. 3 vols. Edited by Lester Kurtz. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1999, pp. 1:279-288. ISBN: 9780122270109.
———. "Ethnic Conflict and Cooperation." In Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict. 3 vols. Edited by Lester Kurtz. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1999, pp. 1:751-764. ISBN: 9780122270109.
Kumar, Radha. "The Troubled History of Partition." Foreign Affairs 76, no. 1 (January/February 1997): 22-34.
Montville, Joseph V., ed. Conflict and Peacemaking in Multiethnic Societies. New York, NY: Lexington Books, 1991. ISBN: 9780669281064.
Sisk, Timothy D. Power Sharing and International Mediation in Ethnic Conflicts. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 1996. ISBN: 9781878379566.
Negotiation and Diplomacy
Cohen, Raymond. "The Rules of the Game in International Politics." International Studies Quarterly 24, no. 1 (March 1980): 129-50.
Fisher, Roger. International Conflict for Beginners. New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1969.
Fisher, Roger, and William Ury. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In. New York, NY: Penguin, 1991.
George, Alexander L. Forceful Persuasion: Coercive Diplomacy as an Alternative to War. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 2009. ISBN: 9781878379146.
Iklé, Fred Charles. How Nations Negotiate. Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint, 1968, first publication 1964.
Nicolson, Harold. Diplomacy. London, UK: Oxford University Press, 1964.
Mediation
Bercovitch, Jacob, and David Wells. "Evaluating Mediation Strategies: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis." Peace and Change 18, no. 1 (January 1993): 3-25, and works cited therein.
Princen, Thomas. Intermediaries in International Conflict. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780691001630.
Limited War
Etzold, Thomas. "Clausewitzian Lessons for Modern Strategists." Air University Review (May/June 1980).
Smoke, Richard. War: Controlling Escalation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978. ISBN: 9780674945951.
For more references, see Smoke's bibliography.
Arms Races
Cashman, Greg. What Causes War? An Introduction to Theories of International Conflict. New York, NY: Lexington Books, 1999, pp. 172-184. ISBN: 9780739101124.
Huntington, Samuel P. "Arms Races: Prerequisites and Results." In The Use of Force. 3rd ed. Edited by Robert J. Art and Kenneth N. Waltz. New York, NY: University Press of America, 1988, pp. 637-670. ISBN: 9780819170033.
Sample, Susan G. "Arms Races and Dispute Escalation: Resolving the Debate?" Journal of Peace Research 34, no. 1 (February 1997): 7-22.
I. Historical Sources
General Surveys of Global International History
Gay, Peter, and R. K. Webb. Modern Europe. New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1973.
Palmer, Robert R., and Joel Colton. A History of the Modern World. 7th ed. New York, NY: Knopf, 1965.
Ropp, Theodore. War in the Modern World. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780801864452.
For more sources see the bibliography in Palmer and Colton. Another excellent bibliographic source is War and Society Newsletter: A Bibliographical Survey. Edited by Jürgen Förster, David French, David Stevenson and Russel Van Wyk. Munich: Militärgeschlichtliches Forschungsamt, annual since 1973; it lists articles and book chapters relevant to international relations and war.
General Surveys of European International History
Albrecht-Carrie, Rene. A Diplomatic History of Europe Since the Congress of Vienna. Revised ed. New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1973. ISBN: 9780060401719.
Hayes, Carlton J. H. Contemporary Europe Since 1870. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1970.
Joll, James. Europe Since 1870: An International History. 4th ed. London, UK: Penguin, 1990. ISBN: 9780140138436.
Taylor, A. J. P. The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1914. London, UK: Oxford, 1971. ISBN: 9780198812708.
Also pertinent are the relevant books in four series of general histories:
The "Langer" series, published by Harper Torchbooks, 15-odd volumes covering western history since 1200, under the general editorship of William Langer (e.g. Sontag, Raymond. A Broken World, 1919-1939.)
The Longman's "General History of Europe" series, covering western history since Roman times, published by Longman, under the general editorship of Denys Hays (e.g. Roberts, J. M. Europe 1880-1945.)
The Fontana "History of Europe" series, published by Fontana/Collins, covering history since the middle ages, under the general editorship of J.H. Plumb (e.g. Grenville, J. A. S. Europe Reshaped, 1848-78.)
The "New Cambridge Modern History" and "Cambridge Ancient History" series, covering western history from the beginning.
The Seven Years War
An overview:
Anderson, Fred. Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
———. The War that Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War. New York, NY: Viking, 2005.
On the Franco-British conflict in the Seven Years War:
Black, Jeremy. Origins of War in Early Modern Europe. Edinburgh, UK: J. Donald, 1987. ISBN: 9780859761680.
Higonnet, Patrice. "The Origins of the Seven Years War." Journal of Modern History 40 (1968): 57-90.
On the Prussian-Austrian-Russian-French war of 1756:
Gaxotte, Pierre. Frederick the Great. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1942, pp. 175-229 and 303-342.
Reiners, Ludwig. Frederick the Great. New York, NY: Putnam, 1960, pp. 89-121 and 147-164.
Ritter, Gerhard. Frederick the Great. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1975, pp. 73-148. ISBN: 9780520027756.
The Crimean War
Goldfrank, David M. The Origins of the Crimean War. New York, NY: Longman, 1994. ISBN: 9780582490550.
Palmer, Alan. The Banner of Battle: The Story of the Crimean War. New York, NY: St. Martin's, 1987. ISBN: 9780312005399.
Rich, Norman. Why the Crimean War? A Cautionary Tale. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1985.
Smoke, Richard. "The Crimean War." In War: Controlling Escalation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978, pp. 147-194. ISBN: 9780674945951.
The Italian Wars of Independence
Coppa, Frank J. The Origins of the Italian Wars of Independence. New York, NY: Longman, 1992. ISBN: 9780582040458.
The Wars of German Unification
Carr, William. The Origins of the Wars of German Reunification. White Plains, NY: Longman, 1991. ISBN: 9780582491489.
Craig, Gordon. The Politics of the Prussian Army, 1640-1945. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1964, pp. 180-216. ISBN: 9780195002577.
Smoke, Richard. War: Controlling Escalation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978, pp. 80-146. ISBN: 9780674945951.
World War I
Basic Histories
Berghahn, V. R. Germany and the Approach of War in 1914. London, UK: Macmillan, 1974.
Evans, R. J. W., and Harmut Pogge von Strandmann. The Coming of the First World War. New York,NY: Oxford University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780198228417.
Geiss, Imanuel. German Foreign Policy 1871-1914. London, UK: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1976. ISBN: 9780415273732.
Joll, James. The Origins of the First World War. New York, NY: Longman, 1984. ISBN: 9780582423794.
Lieven, D. C. B. Russia and the Origins of the First World War. New York, NY: St. Martin's, 1983. ISBN: 9780312696115.
Mombauer, Annika. The Origins of the First World War: Controversies and Consensus. London, UK: Lonman, 2002. ISBN: 9780582418721.
Tuchman, Barbara. The Guns of August. New York, NY: Dell, 1963.
Turner, L. C. F. Origins of the First World War. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1970. ISBN: 9780393099478.
Surveys of Debates about the War's Origins
Ferguson, Niall. "Germany and the Origins of the First World War: New Perspectives." Historical Journal 35 (September 1992): 725-52.
Hewitson, Mark. Germany and the Cause of the First World War. Oxford, UK: Berg, 2004. ISBN: 9781859738658.
Langdon, John W. July 1914: The Long Debate, 1918-1990. Oxford, UK: Berg, 1993. ISBN: 9780854966806.
Moses, John A. The Politics of Illusion: The Fischer Controversy In German Historiography. London, UK: George Prior, 1975. ISBN: 9780702210402.
Williamson, Samuel R. and Ernest R. May. "An Identity of Opinion: Historians and July 1914." Journal of Modern History 79 (June 2007): 335-387.
Other Sources on the Origins of the War
Albertini, Luigi. The Origins of the War of 1914. 3 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980. ISBN: 9780313224034.
Reprint of 1952-1957 edition. Albertini is chaotic, but essential reading for those researching World War I.
Fischer, Fritz. War of Illusions. New York, NY: Norton, 1975. ISBN:9780393054804.
Geiss, Imanuel, ed. July 1914: The Outbreak of the First World War: Selected Documents. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1974. ISBN: 9780393007220.
Herwig, Holger H., ed. The Outbreak of World War I: Causes and Responsibilities. 5th ed. Revised. Lexington, MA: DC Heath, 1990. ISBN: 9780669213591.
Jarausch, Konrad H. The Enigmatic Chancellor: Bethmann Hollweg and the Hubris of Imperial Germany. New Haven, CT: Yale, 1973. ISBN: 9780300012958.
Röhl, John C. G. The Kaiser and his Court: Wilhelm II and the Government of Germany. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 162-190. ISBN: 9780521402231.
(on the German "war council" of December 8, 1912 and related matters.)
Schmitt, Bernadotte E. The Coming of the War: 1914. 2 vols. New York, NY: Scribner's, 1930.
Wilson, Keith. Forging the Collective Memory: Government and International Historians through the Two World Wars. Providence, RI: Beghahn, 1996. ISBN: 9781571818621.
Contemporary Descriptions of the Political Climate in Germany
Archer, William., ed. 501 Gems of German Thought. London, UK: T. Fisher Unwin, 1917.
Bang, J. P. Hurrah and Hallelujah: The Teaching of Germany's Prophets, Professors and Preachers. New York, NY: Doran, 1917.
Notestein, Wallace. Conquest and Kultur: Aims of Germans in Their Own Words. Washington, DC: Committee on Public Information, 1918.
Thayer, William Roscoe, ed. Out Of Their Own Mouths. New York, NY: Appleton, 1917.
Other Works on Themes Pertinent to this Course
Brodie, Bernard. War and Politics. New York, NY: Longman, 1974, pp. 1-28.
Clarke, I. F. Voices Prophesying War. London, UK: Oxford University Press, 1966. ISBn: 9780192129338.
Coetzee, Marilyn Shevin. The German Army League: Popular Nationalism in Wilhelmine Germany. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780195061093.
Craig, Gordon. The Politics of the Prussian Army, 1640-1945. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1964, pp. 217-341. ISBN: 9780195002577.
Ritter, Gerhard. The Sword and the Scepter: The Problem of Militarism in Germany. 4 vols. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press, 1969-73.
———. The Schlieffen Plan: Critique of a Myth. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979. ISBN: 9780313207570.
Guilland, Antoine. Modern Germany and Her Historians. New York, NY: McBride, Nast, 1915.
Hayes, Carleton J. H. France: A Nation of Patriots. New York, NY: Octagon, 1974. ISBN: 9780374937539.
Herrmann, David. The Arming of Europe and the Making of the First World War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780691015958.
Hewitson, Mark. National Identity and Political Thought in Germany: Wilhelmine Depictions of the French Third Republic, 1890-1914. Oxford, UK: Clarendon, 2000. ISBN: 9780198208587.
Hull, Isabel. The Military Entourage of Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1888-1918. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1982. ISBN: 9780521236652.
———. Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practice of War in Imperial Germany. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780801472930.
Kitchen, Martin. "The Army and the Civilians." Chapter 6 in The German Officer Corps, 1890-1914. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1968, pp. 115-142. ISBN: 9780198214670.
Kohn, Hans. The Mind of Germany. New York, NY: Scribner's, 1960, pp. 251-305.
Knightley, Phillip. The First Casualty: From the Crimea to Vietnam. New York, NY: Quadrangle, 1976, pp. 80-112. ISBN: 9780156311304.
(on wartime press coverage.)
Luvaas, Jay. The Military Legacy of the Civil War: The European Inheritance. Chicago. IL: University of Chicago Press, 1959.
McClelland, Charles. The German Historians and England. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1971, pp. 168-235. ISBN: 9780521080637.
Mombauer, Annika. Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780521791014.
Mobauer, Annika and Wilhelm Deist. The Kaiser: New Research on Wilhelm II's Role in Imperial Germany. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University, 2003. ISBN: 9780521824088.
Mommsen, Wolfgang J. "Nationalism, Imperialism and Official Press Policy in Wilhelmine Germany 1850-1914." In Collection de l'Ecole Francaise de Rome, Opinion Publique et Politique Exterieure I 1870-1915. Milan, Italy: Universita de Milano/Ecole Francaise de Rome, 1981, pp. 367-383.
Moses, John A. "Pan-Germanism and the German Professors 1914-1918." Australian Journal of Politics & History 15, no. 3 (December 1969): 45-60.
Sagan, Scott. "1914 Revisited: Allies, Offense, and Instability." International Security 11, no. 2 (Fall 1986): 151-176.
Snyder, Louis L. From Bismarck to Hitler: The Background of Modern German Nationalism. Literary Licensing, LLC, 2011. ISBN: 9781258134297.
———. "Historiography," and "Militarism." Chapters 6 and 10 in German Nationalism: Tragedy of a People. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat, 1969. ISBN: 9780804604338.
Snyder, Jack. The Ideology of the Offensive: Military Decision Making and the Disasters of 1914. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780801416576.
Sondhaus, Lawrence. Franz Conrad von Hötzendorff: Architect of the Apocalypse. Boston, MA: Brill Academic Publishers, 2000. ISBN: 9780391040977.
Stargardt, Nicolas. The German Idea of Militarism: Radical and Socialist Critics, 1866-1914. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University, 1994. ISBN: 9780521466929.
Taylor, A. J. P. War By Time-Table. London, UK: 1969.
Trachtenberg, Marc. "The Meaning of Mobilization in 1914." International Security 15, no. 3 (Winter 1990/91): 120-150.
Travers, Tim. The Killing Ground: The British Army, The Western Front and the Emergence of Modern Warfare, 1900-1918. New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1987. ISBN: 978-0049422056.
Travers, T. H. E. "Technology, Tactics and Morale: Jean de Bloch, the Boer War, and British Military Theory, 1900-1914." Journal of Modern History 51, no. 2 (June 1979): 264-286.
Verhey, Jeffrey. The Spirit of 1914: Militarism, Myth and Mobilization in Germany. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University, 2000. ISBN: 9780521771375.
Willems, Emilio. A Way of Life and Death: Three Centuries of Prussian-German Militarism: An Anthropological Approach. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780826512147.
Readable Accounts of the War Itself
Gilbert, Martin. The First World War. New York, NY: Henry Holt, 1994. ISBN: 9780805015409.
Taylor, A. J. P. The First World War. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1974. ISBN: 9780140024814.
Versailles-An Introduction
Sharp, Alan. The Versailles Settlement: Peacemaking in Paris, 1919. New York, NY: St. Martin's, 1991. ISBN: 9780312055790.
Wold War II in Europe
Baldwin, Peter, ed. "The Historikerstreit in Context." In Reworking the Past: Hitler, the Holocaust and the Historian's Debate. Boston, MA: Beacon, 1990, pp. 3-37. ISBN: 9780807043028.
Bartov, Omer. Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and the War in the Third Reich. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780195068795.
Bell, P. M. H. The Origins of the Second World War in Europe. New York, NY: Longman, 1986. ISBN: 9780582491120.
Berman, Sheri. The Social Democratic Moment: Ideas and Politics in the Making of Interwar Europe. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998, pp. ix-x, and 176-200. ISBN: 9780674442610.
Browning, Christopher R. The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780803213272.
Carr, E. H. International Relations Between the Two World Wars. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1947.
Davies, Norman. Europe at War, 1939-1945. London: MacMillan, 2006. ISBN: 9780330352123.
Edelheit, Hershel, and Abraham J. Edelheit. A World In Turmoil: An Integrated Chronology of the Holocaust and World War II. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1991. ISBN: 9780313282188.
Evans, Richard J. In Hitler's Shadow: West German Historians and the Attempt to Escape from the Nazi Past. New York, NY: Pantheon, 1989. ISBN: 9780679723486.
Friedländer, Saul. Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1939: The Years of Persecution. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1997. ISBN: 9780060190422.
———. Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945: The Years of Extermination. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2007. This two-volume work is the best current study of the Holocaust. ISBN: 9780060190439./p>
Herwig, Holger. "Clio Deceived: Patriotic Self-Censorship in Germany After the Great War." In Military Strategy and the Origins of the First World War. Edited by Steven E. Miller, Sean M. Lynn-Jones, and Stephen Van Evera. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991, pp. 262-301. ISBN: 9780691023496.
Jäckel, Eberhard. Hitler in History. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1984. ISBN: 9780874513110.
———. Hitler's Worldview: A Blueprint for Power. Translated by Herbert Arnold. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981. ISBN: 9780674404250.
Kershaw, Ian. Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1999. ISBN: 9780393046717.
Kohn, Hans. The Mind of Germany. New York, NY: Scribner's, 1960.
Liddell-Hart, B. H. "Aggression and the Problem of Weapons." English Review (July 1932): 71-78.
Rich, Norman. Hitler's War Aims. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1973.
Shirer, William L. Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1960.
Smith, Denis Mack. Mussolini's Roman Empire. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1977. ISBN: 9780140551785.
Sontag, Raymond J. A Broken World, 1919-1939. New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1972.
Spielvogel, Jackson J. Hitler and Nazi Germany: A History. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996. ISBN: 9780131898776./p>
Stark, Gary D. Entrepreneurs of Ideology: Neoconservative Publishers in Germany, 1890-1933. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1981. ISBN: 9780807814529.
Taylor, A. J. P. The Second World War. London: Hamilton Hamish, 1975. ISBN: 9780241892053.
Weinreich, Max. Hitler's Professors. New York, NY: Yiddish Scientific Institute, 1946.
Wilson, Keith. Forging the Collective Memory: Government and International Historians through the Two World Wars. Providence, RI: Berghahn, 1996. ISBN: 9781571818621.
Zentner, Christian, and Friedemann Bedurftig, eds. The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich. Translated by Amy Hackett. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1991. ISBN: 9780028975023.
The Pacific War
Barnhart, Michael A. Japan Prepares for Total War. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780801419157.
———. "The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific: Synthesis Impossible?" Diplomatic History 20, no. 2 (Spring 1996): 241-260.
Butow, Robert J. C. Tojo and the Coming of the War. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1960. ISBN: 9780804706919.
Ienaga, Saburö. The Pacific War, 1931-1945. New York, NY: Pantheon, 1978. ISBN: 9780394734965.
Jones, F. C. "The Military Domination of Japanese Policy, 1931-1945." In Soldiers and Governments. Edited by Michael Howard. London, UK: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957, pp. 117-131.
Neumann, William L. America Encounters Japan. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins, 1963, pp. 184-289. ISBN: 9780801804854.
Pelz, Stephen E. Race to Pearl Harbor: The Failure of the Second London Naval Conference and the Onset of World War II. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975.
Sadao, Asada. "The Japanese Navy and the United States." In Pearl Harbor as History. Edited by Dorothy Borg and Shumpei Okamoto. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1973, pp. 225-259. ISBN: 9780231038904.
Schroeder, Paul W. The Axis Alliance and Japanese-American Relations, 1941. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1958. ISBN: 9780801403712.
Taylor, A. J. P. The Second World War. London, UK: Hamilton Hamish, 1975. ISBN: 9780241892053.
The Origins of the Cold War
Gaddis, John Lewis. Russia, The Soviet Union and the United States. New York, NY: John Wiley, 1978, pp. 175-206.
———. The United States and the Origins of the Cold War 1941-1947. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1972. ISBN: 9780231032896.
———. "The Emerging Post-Revisionist Synthesis on the Origins of the Cold War." Diplomatic History 7, no. 3 (Summer 1983): 171-190.
The Korean War
Baldwin, Frank., ed. Without Parallel: The American-Korean Relaionship Since 1945. New York, NY: Pantheon, 1974. ISBN: 9780394475462.
Brodie, Bernard. War and Politics. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1973, pp. 57-112. ISBN: 9780023150500.
Chen, Jian. China's Road to the Korean War: the Making of the Sino-American Confrontation. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780231100243.
Christensen, Thomas J. "Threats, Assurances, and the Last Chance for Peace." International Security 17, no. 1 (Summer 1992): 122-154.
———. Useful Adversaries: Grand Strategy, Domestic Mobilization, and Sino-American Conflict, 1947-1958. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780691026374.
Cumings, Bruce. The Origins of the Korean War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981. ISBN: 9780691101132.
Foot, Rosemary. The Wrong War: American Policy and the Dimensions of the Korean Conflict, 1950-1953. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985. ISBN: 9780801418006.
Halberstam, David. The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War. New York, NY: Hyperion, 2007.
Halperin, Morton H. "The Korean War." In The Use of Force. 3rd ed. Edited by Robert J. Art and Kenneth N. Waltz. New York, NY: University Press of America, 1988, pp. 220-237. ISBN: 9780819170033.
Jervis, Robert. "The Impact of the Korean War on the Cold War." Journal of Conflict Resolution 24, no. 4 (December 1980): 563-92.
Kaufmann, Burton I. The Korean War: Challenges in Crisis, Credibility, and Command. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780877224181.
Lichterman, Martin. "To the Yalu and Back." In American Civil-Military Relations: A Book of Case Studies. Edited by Harold Stein. Birmingham, AL: University of Alabama Press, for the Twentieth Century Fund, 1963, pp. 569-642.
Lowe, Peter. The Origins of the Korean War. New York, NY: Longman, 1986. ISBN: 9780582492783.
McFarland, Keith D. The Korean War: An Annotated Bibliography. New York, NY: Routledge, 2009. ISBN: 9780415991971.
Nathan, James A., and James K. Oliver. United States Foreign Policy and World Order. 3rd ed. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1985, pp. 113-156. ISBN: 9780316598705.
Paige, Glenn D. The Korean Decision, June 24-30, 1950. New York, NY: Free Press, 1968.
Rees, David. Korea: The Limited War. Baltimore, MD: Penguin, 1970. ISBN: 9780140211924.
Schaller, Michael. Douglas MacArthur: The Far Eastern General. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Simmons, Robert R. The Strained Alliance. New York, NY: Free Press, 1975.
Spanier, John W. The Truman-MacArthur Controversy and the Korean War. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1965.
Stueck, William W., Jr. Road to Confrontation: American Policy Toward China and Korea, 1947-1950. Chapel Hill, CA: University of North Carolina Press, 1981.
Whiting, Allen. China Crosses the Yalu: The Decision to Enter the Korean War. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1960. ISBN: 9780804706292.
The Indochina War
Herring, George. America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975. 4th ed. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 2001. ISBN: 9780072536188.
Brodie, Bernard. War and Politics. New York, NY: Longman Press, 1974, pp. 113-222. ISBN: 9780023150203.
Caputo, Philip. A Rumor of War. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehard & Winston, 1977.
A vivid personal account by an American soldier.
Ellsberg, Daniel. Papers on the War. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1972.
Gelb, Leslie H., and Richard K. Betts. The Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked. Washington, DC: Brookings, 1979. ISBN: 9780815730712.
Halberstam, David. The Best and the Brightest. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1973.
Kahin, George McTurnan, and John W. Lewis. The United States in Vietnam. New York, NY: Dial, 1969.
Kahin, George McTurnan. Intervention: How America Became Involved in Vietnam. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf , 1986. ISBN: 9780394543673.
Shawcross, William. Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1979. ISBN: 978233970776.
Short, Anthony. The Origins of the Vietnam War. New York, NY: Longman, 1989. ISBN: 9780582490802.
The Peloponnesian War
Croix, G. E. M. de Ste. The Origins of the Peloponnesian War. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1972. ISBN: 978-0801407192.
Kagan, Donald. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1981. ISBN: 9780801413674.
———. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1969.
The 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War
Karsch, Efriam, and Inari Rautsi. Saddam Hussein: A Political Biography. Potomac Books, 1991. ISBN: 9780080413266.
Pollack, Kenneth M. The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq. New York, NY: Random House, 2002, pp. 11-54. ISBN: 9780375509285.
Sciolino, Elaine. The Outlaw State: Saddam Hussein's Quest for Power and the Gulf Crisis. New York, NY: John Wiley, 1991. ISBN: 9780471542995.
Middle East Watch. Human Rights in Iraq. Human Rights Watch, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990.
An excellent, horrifying study.
al-Khalil, Samir [Kanan Makiya]. Republic of Fear: The Inside Story of Saddam's Iraq. Berkley, CA: University of California Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780520214392.
By a perceptive Iraqi patriot and MIT graduate.
Tucker, Robert, and David Hendrickson. Imperial Temptation: The New World Order and America's Purpose. New York, NY: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780876091180.
See the 100 pages in here criticizing U.S. policy in the Gulf War.
Atkison, Rick. Crusade. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin , 1993. ISBN: 9780395602904.
Cigar, Norman. "Iraq's Strategic Mindset and the Gulf War: Blueprint for Defeat." Journal of Strategic Studies 25, no. 1 (March 1992): 1-29.
George, Alexander L., ed. "Epilogue: The Persian Gulf Crisis, 1990-1991." In Avoiding War: Problems of Crisis Management. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1991, pp. 567-576. ISBN: 9780813312330.
Karsh, Efraim. "Reflections on the 1990-91 Gulf Conflict." Journal of Strategic Studies 19, no. 3 (September 1996): 303-320.
Trainor, Bernard. The Generals' War: The Inside Story of the Conflict in the Gulf. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1995. ISBN: 9780316321723.
Woodward, Bob. The Commanders. Reader's Digest Association, 1992.
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Abel, Elie. The Missile Crisis. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, 1968.
Allison, Graham. Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1971.
Divine, Robert A., ed. The Cuban Missile Crisis. Chicago, IL: Quadrangle, 1971.
Garthoff, Raymond. Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis. Revised ed. Washington, DC: Brookings, 1989. ISBN: 9780815730538.
Albert, and Roberta Wohlstetter. "Controlling the Risks in Cuba." In The Use of Force. 3rd ed. Edited by Robert J. Art and Kenneth N. Waltz. New York, NY: University Press of America, 1988, pp. 238-273. ISBN: 9780819170033.
The Arab-Israel Conflict
Surveys
Morris, Benny. Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001. New York, NY: Vintage, 2001. ISBN: 9780679744757.
An outstanding history by a leading Israeli "new historian."
Shlaim, Avi. The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2001. ISBN: 9780393321128.
Also excellent, by another top Israeli "new historian."
Smith, Charles D. Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. 4th ed. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2009. ISBN: 9780312535018.
Even-handed and judicious.
Tessler, Mark. A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780253220707.
An excellent history.
La Guardia, Anton. War Without End: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Struggle for a Promised Land. New York, NY: Thomas Dunne Books, 2002.
Bickerton, Ian J., and Carla L. Clausner. A Concise History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2004. ISBN: 9780131900042.
Judicious and high-quality.
Gerner, Deborah. One Land, Two Peoples: The Conflict Over Palestine. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780813321806.
Even-handed but pretty basic.
Safran, Nadav. Israel: The Embattled Ally. Boston, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978. ISBN: 9780674468818.
Mildly pro-Israel.
Khouri, Fred J. The Arab-Israeli Dilemma. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. ISBN: 9780815623403.
(many editions.) Mildly pro-Arab. Legalistic.
Hirst, David. The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977.
Pro-Arab but not blindly so. Has some facts wrong on 1967 war.
Historiographic Debates
Finkelstein, Norman G. Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict. London, UK: Verso Books, 1995. ISBN: 9781844671953.
A rather heated but also excellent assessment of some important historiographical controversies.
Rogan, Eugene L., and Avi Shlaim. The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780521791397.
Another excellent survey of important historiographical controversies.
National Histories
Ben-Sasson, H. H., ed. A History of the Jewish People. Boston, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976.
The best single history. ISBN: 9780674397316.
Hourani, Albert. A History of the Arab Peoples. New York, NY: Warner, 1992.
The best single history.
Movement Histories
Laqueur, Walter. A History of Zionism. New York, NY: Schocken Books, 2003. ISBN: 9780805211498.
Avineri, Schlomo. The Making of Modern Zionism: The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1981. ISBN: 9780465043286.
Antonius, George. The Arab Awakening: The Story of the Arab National Movement. St. Paul, MN: Paragon, 1979, first publication 1946.
A brilliant classic.
Mansfield, Peter. The Arabs. New York, NY: Penguin, 1980 or later. ISBN: 9780140147681.
Relevant Ancient History
Harkabi, Yehoshafat. The Bar Kokhba Syndrome: Risk and Realism in International Politics. Chappaqua, NY: Rossel Books, 1983. ISBN: 9780940646018.
Peace Negotiations in Recent Years
Kemp, Geoffrey, and Jeremy Pressman. Point of No Return: The Deadly Struggle for Middle East Peace. Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment, 1997.
A survey of recent events. Pressman is a recent PhD graduate from the MIT political science department.
Pressman, Jeremy. "Visions in Collision: What Happened at Camp David and Taba?" International Security 28, no. 2 (Fall 2003): 5-43.
Slater, Jerome. "Lost Opportunities for Peace in the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Israel and Syria, 1948-2001." International Security 27, no. 1 (Summer 2002): 79-106.
U.S. Domestic Politics/The Christian Right and Israel/The Israel Lobby
Foxman, Abraham H. The Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control. New York, NY: Palgrave, 2007. ISBN: 9781403984920.
Kristof, Nicholas D. "Jesus and Jihad." New York Times, July 17, 2004.
LaHaye, Tim F., and Jerry B. Jenkins. Glorious Appearing: The End of Days. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 2004. A picture of the Christian right's vision for the world in its own words. The book describes a mass-murdering Jesus returned to Earth, hurling the religiously incorrect of the world into an abyss of everlasting fire. ISBN: 9780842332378.
Lind, Michael. Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2003. pp. 128-153. The premillennial dispensationalist scenaior for the Jews, Israel, and the end-times is found on page 146. ISBN: 9780465041220.
Mearsheimer, John J., and Stephen M. Walt. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2007. ISBN: 9780374177720.
Weber, Timothy P. On the Road to Armageddon: How Evangelists Became Israel's Best Friend. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2004. pp. 213-48, and 250-68.
Anti-semitism - The Root of the Evil
Laqueur, Walter. The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism: From Ancient Times to the Present Day. New York, NY: Oxford University Press , 2006. ISBN: 9780195304299.
Perry, Marvin, and Frederick Schweitzer. Anti-Semitism: Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the Present. New York, NY: Palgrave, 2002.
Flannery, Edward H. The Anguish of the Jews: Twenty-Three Centuries of Antisemitism. Revised ed. New York, NY: Paulist Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780809143245.
Israel Pocket Library. Anti-Semitism. Jerusalem: Keter, 1974.
See also relevant entries in the Encyclopedia Judaica, from which this book is excerpted. In this dark story lies a key to the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Carroll, James. Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews: A History. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
A fine account of western Christian persecution of the Jews. If this account is accepted the party most responsible for the Israel-Arab conflict becomes clear: the anti-semitic Christian west.
Excellent press coverage of current events in the Mideast can be found on line from Israel's Ha'aretz, an outstanding newspaper.
Soviet Military Policy Western Analyses
Dinerstein, Herbert. War and the Soviet Union. New York, NY: Praeger, 1962.
Douglass, Joseph, and Amoretta Hoeber. Soviet Strategy for Nuclear War. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 1979. ISBN: 9780817970826.
Garthoff, Raymond. Soviet Military Policy. New York, NY: Praeger, 1966.
———. Soviet Strategy in the Nuclear Age. New York, NY: Praeger, 1958.
———. The Soviet Image of Future War. Washington, DC: Public Affairs Press, 1959. ISBN: 9780818302107.
Goure, Leon, Foy Kohler, and Mose L. Harvey. The Role of Nuclear Forces in Current Soviet Strategy. Miami, FL: University of Miami Press, 1974.
Lambeth, Benjamin. "How To Think About Soviet Military Doctrine." In Soviet Strategy. Edited by John Baylis and Gerald Segal. Montclair, NJ: Allenheld, Osmun, 1981, pp. 105-123. ISBN: 9780865980501.
Wolfe, Thomas. Soviet Power and Europe, 1945-1970. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1970.
———. Soviet Strategy at the Crossroads. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1964.
Translated Soviet writings on this subject include:
Lomov, N. A. The Revolution in Military Affairs. In Scientific-Technical Progress and the Revolution in Military Affairs: A Soviet View. Honolulu, HI, University Press of the Pacific, 2002. 9781410201492
Marxism Leninism on War and Army. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972. (no author)
Sidorenko, A. A. The Offensive. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1974.
Sokolovskiy, V. D. Soviet Military Strategy. New York, NY: Crane Russak, 1975. ISBN: 9780844803111.
The Terror War
Benjamin, Daniel, and Steven Simon. The Age of Sacred Terror. New York, NY: Random House, 2002.
———. The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and Strategy for Getting it Right. New York, NY: Times Books, 2005.
Habeck, Mary. Knowing the Enemy: Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terror. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006.
Anonymous. Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror. Potomac Books Inc.; First Edition edition , 2004. ISBN: 9781574888492.
Falkenrath, Richard A., Robert D. Newman, and Bradley A. Thayer. America's Achilles Heel: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Terrorism and Covert Attack. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780262561181.
Anonymous. Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama Bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America. Washington, DC:Brassey's, 2002. ISBN: 9781574885521.
Bergen, Peter L. Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama Bin Laden. New York, NY: Touchstone, 2002. ISBN: 9780743234955.
Talbott, Strobe, and Nayan Chanda, eds. The Age of Terror: America and the World After September 11. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2001.ISBN: 9780465083572.
Hoge, James F., and Gideon Rose, ed. How Did This Happen? Terrorism and the New War. New York, NY: Public Affairs Press, 2001. ISBN: 9781586481308.
Campbell, Kurt M., and Michèle A. Flournoy, principal authors. To Prevail: An American Strategy for the Campaign Against Terrorism. Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2001. ISBN: 9780892064076.
Pillar, Paul R. Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy. Washington, DC: Brookings, 2004. ISBN: 9780815770770.
Alexander, Yonah, and Michael S. Swetman. Usama bin Laden's al-Qaida: Profile of a Terrorist Network. Ardsley, NY: Transnational, 2001. ISBN: 9781571052193.
Cordesman, Anthony H. Terrorism, Asymmetric Warfare, and Weapons of Mass Destruction. New York, NY: Praeger, 2001. ISBN: 9780313361197.
Rose, Gideon. "Review Essay: It Could Happen Here: Facing the New Terrorism." Foreign Affairs 78, no. 2 (March/April 1999): 131-137.
The U.S.-Iraq War, 2003-
Bamford, James. A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies. New York, NY: Anchor, 2005. ISBN: 9781400030347.
Other Contemporary Wars
Judah, Tim. "Kosovo's Road to War." Survival 41, no. 2 (Summer 1999): 5-18.
Shearer, Derek. "Africa's Great War." Survival 41, no. 2 (Summer 1999): 89-106.