Part 7 Annotated further reading guide

The Age of Instability and Conflict: Terror, Economic Chaos, and Political Change, 2001-11

Substantial memoirs by Western policy-makers include:

George W. Bush, Decision Points (Virgin Books, London, 2011).
Dick Cheney, In My Time: a personal and political memoir (Threshold Editions, New York, 2011).
Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown: a memoir (Sentinel, New York, 2011).
Condoleezza Rice, No Higher Honor (Simon and Schuster, New York, 2011).
Tony Blair, A Journey (Arrow, London, 2011).

On American policy in general see:

B. Buzan, The United States and the Great Powers: World Politics in the 21st. Century, (Cambridge, Polity Press, 2004).
A. Callinicos, The New Mandarins of American Power: The Bush Administration’s Plans for the World, (Cambridge, Polity Press, 2003).
W. Cohen, America’s Failing Empire: US Foreign Relations since the Cold War, (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005).
D. Held and M. Koenig-Archibugi (eds.), American Power in the 21st. Century, (Cambridge, Polity Press, 2004).
J.S. Nye, The Paradox of American Power: Why the World’s Only Superpower Can’t go It Alone, (Oxford, OUP, 2002).
I. Wallerstein, The Decline of American Power: The US in a Chaotic World, (New York, NY, New Press, 2003).
Michael Cox, ‘September 11th and the U.S.Hegemony - Or Will the 21st Century Be American Too?’, International Studies Perspectives, Vol. 3, (2002)

From two leading critical thinkers on US policy:

Z. Brzezinski, The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership? (New York, Basic, 2004).
N. Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance, (London, Hamish Hamilton, 2003).

Bob Woodward wrote a series of highly important and well informed books on policy making under George Bush Junior (all published by Pocket Books):

Bush at War, Part I (2003).
Plan of Attack (2004), on the invasion of Iraq.
State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III (2007).
The War Within: a secret White House history, 2006-8 (2009).

On Obama’s foreign policy see:

Bob Woodward, Obama’s Wars (Simon and Schuster, New York, 2010).
Stephen Carter, The Violence of Peace: America’s wars in the age of Obama (Beast Books, New York, 2011).
David Sanger, Confront and Conceal: Obama’s secret wars and surprising use of American power (Crown, New York, 2012).

Specifically on the ‘neo-conservatives’ see:

S. Halper and J. Clarke, America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004).
B. Hamm (ed.), Devastating Society: The Neo-Conservative Assault on Democracy and Justice, (London: Pluto Press, 2005).

And on themes of ‘imperialist’ behaviour:

N. Ferguson, Colossus: The Rise and Fall of American Empire, (London, Allen Lane, 2004).
L. Gardner and M.B. Young, The New American Empire: A 21st. Century Teach In on US Foreign Policy, (New York, NY, The New Press, 2005).
D. Harvey, The New Imperialism, (Oxford, OUP, 2003).
C. Johnson, The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy and the End of the Republic, (London, Verso, 2004.)
A Bacevich American Empire: the Realities and Consequences of American Diplomacy (Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 2002)

On the events of 9/11 and their background:

Steve Coll, Ghost Wars: the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan and bin Laden from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001 (Penguin, London, 2005).
Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda’s road to 9/11 (Penguin, London, 2007).
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, The 9/11 Commission Report (W.W. Norton and Co., New York, 2004).

In general on the War on Terror see:

Richard A. Clarke, Against all Enemies: inside America’s War on Terror (Free Press, New York, 2004).
Peter L. Bergen, The Longest War: America and Al-Qaeda since 9/11 (Free Press, New York, 2011).
Peter Bergen, Manhunt: from 9/11 to Abbottabad – the ten year search for Osama bin Laden (Bodley Head, London, 2011).
Jason Burke, The 9/11 Wars (Allen Lane, London, 2007).
Fawaz A. Gerges, The Rise and Fall of Al Qaeda (Oxford University Press, 2011).
Syed Saleem Shahzad, Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban (Pluto Press, London, 2011)
Bruce Riedel, Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America and the Future of Global Jihad (Brookings Institution, Washington, 2011).

On 9/11 and the ‘war on terror’:

C. Calhoun, P. Price and A. Timmer, (Eds.) Understanding September 11th, (New York, The New Press, 2002).
F. Gerges, The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005).
F. Halliday, The Two Hours That Shook the World, (London: Saqi Books, 2002).
E. Hershberg and K. Moore, Critical views of September 11th: Analyses From Around the World, (New York, The New Press, 2002).
T. Mockaitis, and P.B. Rich, (Eds.) Grand Strategy in the War Against Terrorism, (London, Frank Cass, 2003).

On the nature of Islam and its international impact:

Bassam Tibbi, Islam between Culture and Politics (Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2nd ed 2005)
F Halliday, Islam and the Myth of Confrontation (London, IB Tauris 2nd ed 2002)
John L Esposito, Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam (NY,Oxford University Press, 2003)
Bassam Tibbi, The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World Disorder (Berkeley, University of California Press,2nd ed 2002)
Olivier Roy, Globalised Islam (Paris, Editions du Seuil, 2002)
Samuel P Huntington, The Clash of Civilisations and the Remaking of World Order (New York, Simon and Schuster,1996) remains a highly polemical work which some would argue has more relevance now.
F Gerges, America and Political Islam: a Clash of Cultures or a Clash of Interests (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,1999)

Specifically on Afghanistan:

Tim Bird and Alex Marshall, Afghanistan: How the West Lost its Way (Yale University Press, New Haven, 2011)
Sherard Cowper-Coles, Cables from Kabul: the inside story of the West’s Afghanistan campaign (Harper Press, London, 2011)
Seth G. Jones, In the Graveyard of Empires America's War in Afghanistan (W.W.Norton, New York, 2010)
Ahmed Rashid, Taliban: the power of militant Islam in Afghanistan (I.B. Tauris, London, 2010).
Peter Tomsen, Wars of Afghanistan (Public Affairs, New York, 2011), which puts US policy in the broad perspective of Afghan history.

Specifically on Iraq:

J. Dobbins et al. America’s Role in Nation-Building : From Germany to Iraq, (Santa Monica, CA, RAND, 2003).
S. Hoffman and F. Bozo, Gulliver Unbound: America’s Imperial Temptation and the War in Iraq, (Lanham, Rowman and Littlefield, 2005).
W. Shawcross, Allies: The US, Britain, Europe and the War in Iraq, (New York, NY, Public Affairs, 2004).
L. Diamond, Squandered Victory: the American Occupation and the Bungled Efforts to bring Democracy to Iraq (New York, Times Books, 2005)

And on different aspects of the Iraq conflict:

Ali A. Allawi, The Occupation of Iraq: winning the war, losing the peace (Yale University Press, New Haven, 2008).
Terry H. Anderson, Bush's Wars (Oxford University Press, New York, 2011)
Patrick Cockburn, The Occupation: war and resistance in Iraq (Verso, London, 2007).
Patrick Cockburn, Muqtada al-Sadr and the Shia insurgency in Iraq (Faber and Faber, London, 2008).
Con Coughlin, Saddam: the secret life (Pan, London, 2007).
Brian Jones, Failing Intelligence: how we were fooled into going to war in Iraq (Dialogue, London, 2010).
Thomas E. Ricks, Fiasco: the American military adventure in Iraq (Penguin, London, 2007).

On the British role in these conflicts:

Jack Fairweather, A War of Choice: the British in Iraq, 2003-9 (Jonathan Cape, London, 2011).
Richard North, Ministry of Defeat: the British war in Iraq, 2003-9 (Continuum, New York, 2009).
Frank Ledwidge, Losing Small Wars: British military failure in Iraq and Afghanistan (Yale University Press, 2011).

On Russia’s role:

T. Ambrosio, Challenging America’s Global Pre-eminence: Russia’s Quest For Multi-Polarity, (Aldershot, Aldgate, 2005)
S. Rosefielde, Russia in the 21st Century: The Prodigal Superpower, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

On Russia and the West:

O. Antoniko and K. Pinnnick (Eds.) Russia and the European Union: Prospects for a New Relationship, (London, Routledge, 2005).
J. Goldgeiger, Power and Purpose: US Policy Towards Russia After the Cold War, (Brookings Institutions Press, 2003).
A.J. Motyl, B.A. Ruble, L. Shevtsova, Russia’s Engagement With the West: Transformation and Integration in the 21st. Century, (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2005).

On Russia and China:

S.W. Garnett, Rapprochement or Rivalry ? Russia-China Relations in a Changing Asia, (Washington DC, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2000).
J. Wilson, Strategic Partners: Russian-Chinese relations in the Post-Soviet Era, (Armonk, NY, Sharpe, 2005).

On Russia under Putin:

Chris Hutchins, Putin (Matador, London, 2011).
Masha Gessen, The Man without a Face: the unlikely rise of Vladimir Putin (Granta Books, London, 2012).
Michael Stuermer, Putin and the Rise of Russia (Phoenix Books, London, 2009).

On the implications of the continuing rise of Chinese power:

Yong Deng, China's Struggle for Status The Realignment of International Relations (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2008)
Yong Deng and Feiling Wang, In the Eyes of the Dragon: China Views the World (Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, 1999)
Christopher R. Hughes, Chinese Nationalism in the Global Era (Routledge, London, 2006)
David Kang, China Rising: Peace, Power and Order in East Asia (Columbia University Press, New York, 2007)
James Kynge, China Shakes the World (Phoenix Books, London, 2009)
Richard McGregor, The Party: the secret world of China’s communist rulers (Penguin, London, 2011)
Jisi Wang, 'China's Search for Stability with America' Foreign Affairs 84,5 (Sept/Oct 2005)
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, China in the Twenty-First Century (Oxford University Press, 2010)
Ye Zicheng, Inside China's Grand Strategy (University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 2011)

On Europe and NATO:

C.Hill and M.Smith, International Relations and the European Union, (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005).
T. Lansford, All For One: Terrorism, NATO and the United States, (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2002).
W. Jacoby, The Enlargement of the European Union and NATO: Ordering From the Menu in Central Europe, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005).
F. Schimmelfennig, The EU, NATO and the Integration of Europe: Rules and Rhetoric, (Cambridge: CUP, 2003).

On US-European relations:

R. Kagan, Paradise and Power: American and Europe in the New World Order (London: Atlantic Books, 2003).
H. Mouritzen and A. Wivel, The Geopolitics of Euro-Atlantic Integration, (London, Routledge, 2005).
J. Peterson and M. Pollack, Europe, America, Bush, Trans-Atlantic Relations in the 21st. Century, (London, Routledge, 2003).

On new thinking about war:

S. Chan, Out of Evil: New International Politics and Old Doctrines of War, (London, IB Tauris, 2005).
M. Duffield, Global Governance and the New Wars: The Merging of Development and Security, (London, Zed Books, 2001).
M. Shaw, The New Western Way of War, (Cambridge, Polity, 2005).
M. Walzer, Arguing About War, (New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2004).

Specifically on ‘Just War’:

A.F. Lang, Just Intervention, (Washington, Georgetown Press, 2003).
K.Z. Marten, Enforcing the Peace: Learning from the Imperial Past, (Columbia, NY, Columbia University Press, 2005).
F. Weissman, In the Shadow of Just Wars, (London, Hurst, 2004).

And on ethics, peace and governance:

R. Caplan, International Governance of War-Torn Territories: Rule and Reconstruction, (Oxford: OUP, 2005).
F. Fukuyama, State Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st. Century, (London, Profile, 2004).
M.V. Rasmussen, The West, Civil Society and The Construction of Peace, (Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2003).
K. Smith and M. Light (Eds.), Ethics in Foreign Policy, (Cambridge, CUP, 2001).
D. Sorenson and P.C. Wood, The Politics of Peace-Keeping in the Post-Cold War Era, (London, Franck Cass, 2005).

On US policy on human rights and international law:

M. Ignatief (ed.), American Exceptionalism and Human Rights, (Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2005)
J. Murphy, The United States and the Rule of Law in International Affairs, (Cambridge: CUP, 2004).
P. Sands, Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules, (London, Allen Lane, 2005).

Accessible works on the post-2008 economic depression are:

Alistair Darling, Back from the Brink: 1000 days at Number 11 (Atlantic Books, London, 2011) – by Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Paul Krugman, The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 (Allen Lane, London, 2008).
Nouriel Roubini, Crisis Economics (Penguin, London, 2011).
Joseph Stiglitz, Freefall: Free Market and the sinking of the Global Economy (Penguin, London, 2010).

The full outcome of the Arab Spring remains to be seen, but some initial analyses include:

Hamid Dabashi, The Arab Spring: the end of post-colonialism (Zed Books, London, 2012).
Jean-Pierre Filiu, The Arab Revolution: ten lessons from the democratic uprising (C. Hurst and Co., London, 2011).
Toby Manhire, The Arab Spring: rebellion, revolution and a new world order (Guardian Books, London, 2012).
Tariq Ramadan, The Arab Awakening: Islam and the new Middle East (Allen Lane, London, 2012