Paul Kennedy

The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West

by Niall Ferguson

Colossus: The Price of America's Empire

by Niall Ferguson

The Geographical Pivot of History

an article by Halford J. Mackinder

Democratic Ideals and Reality

by Halford J. Mackinder

The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

by John J. Mearsheimer

No Virtue Like Necessity: Realist Thought in International Relations Since Machiavelli

by Jonathan Haslam

The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History

by Philip Bobbitt

The First World War

by John Keegan

The Pity of War

by Niall Ferguson

The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Century

by Robert D. Kaplan

The Myth of America's Decline: Leading the World Economy into the 1990s

by Henry R. Nau

America's Economic Resurgence: A Bold New Strategy

by Richard Rosecrance

Peril and Promise: A Commentary on America

by John Chancellor

Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power

by Joseph S. Nye Jr.

The Weary Titan: Britain and the Experience of Relative Decline, 1895–1905

by Aaron L. Friedberg

The Future of American Strategy

by David C. Hendrickson

Thinking About America: The United States in the 1990s

edited by Annelise Anderson, edited by Dennis L. Bark

Preventing World War III: A Realistic Grand Strategy

by David M. Abshire

Discriminate Deterrence: Report of the Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy

co-chaired by Fred C. Iklé and Albert Wohlstetter

The Origins of the First World War

by James Joll