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Book and Movie Recommendations

Our book list includes work from INSCT faculty and selected reading from Security courses at the Maxwell School and the Syracuse University College of Law.

Films

The Battle of Algiers, Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo

Frontline: The Torture Question, Written, Produced and Directed by Michael Kirk

Hotel Rwanda, Directed by Terry George

MORE: National Security Law through the Movies  by Professor David Crane

Books

Allison, Graham

Nuclear Terrorism

Anderson, Fred and Andrew, Clayton

The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000

Atkinson, Rick

Army at Dawn and The Day of Battle

Bacevich, Andrew

American Empire

Barnett, Thomas P.M.

Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating

Bawer, Bruce

While Europe Slept

Bergen, Peter

Holy War, Inc.

Bersein, Alex; Macgregor, Knox; and Willamson, Murray; Eds.

The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, and War

Beschloss, Michael

The Conquerors

Boroujerdi, Mehrzad

Iranian Intellectuals and the West: The Tormented Triumph of Nativism

Brafman, Ori; Beck, Rod. A. 

The Starfish and the Spider

Chollet, Derek; Goldgeier, James

America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11

Cohen, Eliot A. 

Supreme Command

Collins, Jim

Good to Great

Danzig, Richard

Catastrophic Bioterrorism: What is to be done?

Diamond, Jared

Guns, Germs and Steel

Dobel, Patrick

Public Integrity

Dycus, Stephen; Arthur L. Berney, William C. Banks, Peter Raven-Hansen

National Security Law

Erlich, Paul

The Population Bomb

Farah, Douglas

Blood from Stones

Fick, Nathaniel C.

One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Corps Officer

Flynn, Stephen

The Edge of Disaster and America the Vulnerable

Franke, Volker C. 

Terrorism and Peacekeeping: New Security Challenges

Friedman, Thomas

Lexus and the Olive Tree and The World is Flat

Fukuyama, Francis

The End of History and The Last Man

Gunaratna, Rohan

Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror

Haass, Richard

The Opportunity

Handel, Michael I. 

Masters of War: Classical Strategic Thought, 3rd Ed.

Hermann, Margaret "Peg"

Psychological Examination of Political Leaders

Hoffman, Bruce

Inside Terrorism

Howard, Michael

War in European History

Huntington, Samuel 

The Clash of Civilizations:Remaking of Word Order; The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations

Iacocca, Lee

Where have all the Leaders Gone?

Jurgensmeyer, Mark

Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence

Kagan, David

The Peloponnesian War

Kagan, Robert

The Return of History; the End of Dreams

Kaplan, Robert

Imperial Grunts: On the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and Beyond 

Kilcullen, David

The Accidental Guerilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One

Knox, MacGregor and Williamson Murray, ed.

The Dynamics of Military Revolution 1300-2050

Kurlansky, Mark

1968

Levitt, Matthew

Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of the Jihad

Macgregor, Douglas

Transformation Under Fire: Revolutionizing How America Fights

MacMillan, Margaret

Paris, 1919

Mann, James

Rise of the Vulcans

McMaster, H.R.

Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam

Mets, David R. and Harld R. Winton, eds.

The Challenges of Change: Military Institutions and New Realities, 1918-1941

Meyer, Karl and Shareer Blair Brysac

Tournament of Shadows

Mueller, John

Overblown

Nagl, John A.

Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

The 9/11 Commission Report

Nye, Joseph

Soft Power; The Powers to Lead

Olson, Lynn

Troublesome Young Men

Paret, Peter, ed.

Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age

Peterson, Pete

Running on Empty

Qiao Liang, Way Xiangsui

Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America

Ricks, Thomas E.

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq; The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008

Rose, Sir Michael

Washington's War

Ross, Dennis

The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace
Hamas: Politics, Charity and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad
Statecraft: How to Restore America's Standing in the World

Rotberg, Robert I., ed.

When States Fail: Causes and Consequences

Sageman, Marc

Understanding Terror Networks

Sakesian, Sam G.; Williams, John Allen; and Cimbala, Stephen J.

U.S. National Security

>Sanger, David E.

The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power

Savage, Charlie

The Return of the Imperial Presidency

Scheuer, Michael

Imperial Hubris

Schwartz, Peter

The Art of the Long View

Simmons, Matthew R.

Twilight in the Desert

Stoler, Mark A.

George C. Marshall: Soldier-Statesman of the American Century

Tzu, Sun (trans. Samuel Griffin)

The Art of War

Van Creveld, Martin

Supplying War: Logistics from Wallerstein to Patton

von Clausewitz, Carl (trans. Michael Howard, Peter Paret)

On War

Wang, Hongying

Weak State, Strong Networks: The Institutional Dynamics of Foreign Investment of China

Woodward, Bob

Plan of Attack
The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008

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