The current bibliography (books only) of "Great Powers"

Dean Acheson, Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1987), pp. .

Giovanni Arrighi, Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century (New York: Verso, 2007), pp. .

George B.N. Ayittey, Africa Unchained: The Blueprint for Africa’s Future (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005), pp. .

James A. Baker III, “Work Hard, Study, and Keep Out of Politics!”: Adventures and Lessons from an Unexpected Public Life (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2006), pp. .

William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan and Carl J. Schramm, Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity (New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 2007), pp. .

Maurice G. Baxter, Henry Clay and the American System (Lexington KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), pp. .

James C. Bennett, The Anglosphere Challenge: Why the English-Speaking Nations Will Lead the Way in the Twenty-First Century (Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004), pp. .

Hans Binnendijk and Richard L. Kugler, Seeing the Elephant: The U.S. Role in Global Security (Washington DC: Potomac Books, 2006), pp. .

James R. Blaker, Transforming Military Force: The Legacy of Arthur Cebrowski and Network Centric Warfare (Westport CT: Praeger Security International, 2007), pp. .

Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815 (New York: Viking, 2007), pp..

K. Bogdanova, Ten Russian Poets: A Russian Reader with Explanatory Notes in English (Moscow: Russian Language Publishers, 1979), pp. 113-14.

Max Boot, The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power (New York: Basic Books, 2002), pp. .

Elizabeth Borgwardt, A New Deal for the World: America’s Vision for Human Rights (Cambridge MA: Belknap Press, 2005), pp. .

Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom, The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations (New York: Portfolio, 2006), pp. .

Lael Brainard (editor), Security By Other Means: Foreign Assistance, Global Poverty, and American Leadership (Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2007), pp. .

Ian Bremmer, The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), pp. .

Harry G. Broadman, Africa’s Silk Road: China and India’s New Economic Frontier (Washington DC: The World Bank, 2007), pp. .

Ronald Brownstein, The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America (New York: Penguin Press, 2007), pp. .

Stephen Burman, The State of the American Empire: How the USA Shapes the World (Brighton UK: Earthscan, 2007), pp. .

Iain Carson and Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran, Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future (New York: Twelve, 2007), pp. .

Nayan Chanda, Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization (New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 2007), pp. .

Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone (New York: Vintage Books, 2007), pp. .

Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton (New York: Penguin Press, 2004), pp. .

Gregory Clark, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), pp. .

Kendrick A. Clements, Woodrow Wilson: World Stateman (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1999), pp. .

Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. .

Robert Coram, Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War (New York: Back Bay Books, 2002), pp. .

Gwyneth Cravens, Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007), pp. .

Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006), pp. .

Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (New York: Viking, 2005), pp. .

Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (New York: Ballantine Books, 1982), pp. .

Peter F. Drucker, The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker’s Essential Writings on Management (New York: HarperCollins, 2001), pp. .

William Easterly, The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (New York: Penguin Press, 2006), pp. .

Elizabeth C. Economy, The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China’s Future (Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 2004), pp. .

Juan Enriquez, As the Future Catches You: How Genomics & Other Forces Are Changing Your Life, Work, Health & Wealth (New York: Crown Publishers, 2001), pp. .

Juan Enriquez, The Untied States of America: Polarization, Fracturing, and Our Future (New York: Crown Publishers, 2005), pp. .

Susan Faludi, The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007), pp. .

Douglas J. Feith, War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism (New York: Harper, 2008), pp. .

Benjamin M. Friedman, The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth (New York: Vintage Books, 2005), pp. .

Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree (New York: Random House, 1999), pp. .

Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), pp. .

Erich Fromm, Escape From Freedom (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1994), pp..

Francis Fukuyama, State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century (Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 2004), pp. .

Francis Fukuyama (editor), Nation-Building: Beyond Afghanistan and Iraq (Baltimore MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), pp. .

David Galula, Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 2005), pp. .

Ali Gheissari and Vali Nasr, Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. .

Dan Gillmor, We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People (Sebastopol CA: O’Reilly, 2004), pp. .

Misha Glenny, McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008), pp. .

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), pp. .

Richard N. Haass, The Opportunity: America’s Moment To Alter History’s Course (New York: Public Affairs, 2005), pp. .

Morton H. Halperin, Joseph T. Siegle and Michael M. Weinstein, The Democracy Advantage: How Democracies Promote Prosperity and Peace (New York: Routledge, 2005), pp. .

Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1999), pp. .

Chip Heath and Dan Heath, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (New York: Random House, 2007), pp. .

Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. .

Frans Johansson, The Medici Effect: What Elephants & Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation (Cambridge MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2006), pp. .

Robert Kagan, Dangerous Nation: America’s Place in the World From Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006), pp. .

Robert Kagan, The Return of History and the End of Dreams (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008), pp. .

John Kao, Jamming: The Art and Discipline of Business Creativity (New York: Harper Business, 1996), pp. .

Robert D. Kaplan, Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground (New York: Random House, 2005), pp. .

George F. Kennan, Memoirs, 1925-1950 (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1967), pp. .

George Kennan, “The Sources of Soviet Conduct,” in Hamilton Fish Armstrong, editor, Fifty Years of Foreign Affairs (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1972), pp. 188-205.

Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye, Power and Interdependence: World Politics in Transition (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1977), pp. .

John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace (New York: BiblioBazaar, 2007), pp. .

Parag Khanna, The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (New York: Random House, 2008), pp. .

Henry Kissinger, White House Years (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1979), pp. .

Michael T. Klare, Rising Power and Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2008), pp. .

Alan B. Krueger, What Makes a Terrorist: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), pp. .

Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn, Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008), pp. .

Bruce Kuklick: Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War From Kennan to Kissinger (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006), pp. .

Joshua Kurlantzick, Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power Is Transforming the World (New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 2007), pp. .

James Kynge, China Shakes the World: A Titan’s Rise and Troubled Future—and the Challenge for America (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006), pp. .

Mark Lilla, The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics and the Modern West (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007), pp. .

George Lodge and Craig Wilson, A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty: How Multinationals Can Help the Poor and Invigorate Their Own Legitimacy (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Pres, 2006), pp. .

Bjorn Lomborg, Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007), pp. .

Amory Lovins et al, Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs, and Security (Snowmass CO: Rocky Mountain Institute, 2007), pp. .

Edward Luce, In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India (New York: Doubleday, 2007), pp. .

Margaret Macmillan, Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World (New York: Random House, 2007), pp. .

David McCullough, Truman (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992), pp. .

Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1805 [Introduction by Antony Preston] (New York: Gallery Books, 1980), pp. .

Burton G. Malkiel and Patricia A. Taylor, From Wall Street to the Great Wall: How Investors Can Profit from China’s Booming Economy (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008), pp. .

James Mann, The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression (New York: Viking, 2007), pp. .

Greil Marcus, The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006), pp. .

Michael E. Marti, China and the Legacy of Deng Xiaoping: From Communist Revolution to Capitalist Evolution (Washington DC: Brassey’s, 2002), pp. .

Walter Russell Mead, God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007), pp. .

Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (New York: Modern Library, 2001), pp. .

Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex (New York: Modern Library, 2001), pp. .

Ricardo S. Morse, Terry F. Buss, and C. Morgan Kinghorn (editors), Transforming Public Leadership for the 21st Century (Armonk NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2007), pp. .

John A. Nagl, Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), pp. .

Vali Nasr, The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006), pp. .

Richard Nixon, RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990), pp. .

Michael B. Oren, Power, Faith, and Fantasy: American in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007), pp. .

George Packer, The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), pp. .

Robert Young Pelton, Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror (New York: Crown Publishers, 2006), pp. .

C.K. Prahalad, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits (Upper Saddle River NJ: Wharton School Publishing, 2005), pp. .

Stephen Prothero, Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know—And Doesn’t (New York: Harper One, 2007), pp. .

Ahmed Rashid, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (New Haven CT: Yale Nota Bene, 2001), pp. .

Ahmed Rashid, Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia (New York: Penguin Books, 2003), pp. .

Glenn Reynolds, An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government and Other Goliaths (Nashville TN: Thomas Nelson, 2006), pp. .

Heather Cox Richardson, West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War (New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 2007), pp. .

Thomas E. Ricks, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (New York: Penguin Books, 2007), pp. .

T. R. Reid, Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West (New York: Vintage Books, 2000), pp. .

Chet Richards, Neither Shall the Sword: Conflict in the Years Ahead (Washington DC: Center for Defense Information, 2005), pp. .

John Robb, Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization (Hoboken NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2007), pp. .

David Rothkopf, Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008), pp. .

Olivier Roy, Secularism Confronts Islam (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), pp. .

Jeffrey D. Sachs, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities For Our Time (New York: Penguin Press, 2005), pp. .

Jeffrey D. Sachs, Common Wealth: Economics For a Crowded Planet (New York: Penguin Press, 2008), pp. .

Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954), pp. .

Charlie Savage, Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2007), pp. .

Robert J. Schapiro, Futurecast: How Superpowers, Populations, and Globalization Will Change the Way You Live and Work (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2008), pp. .

Peter Schwartz, The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World (New York: Doubleday, 1991), pp. .

Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman (New York: Penguin Books, 2005), pp. .

James Surowiecki, The Wisdom Of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies, and Nations (New York: Doubleday, 2004), pp. .

Strobe Talbott, The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008), pp. .

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (New York: Random House, 2007), pp. .

Don Tapscott, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything (New York: Portfolio, 2006), pp. .

Barrett Tillman, What We Need: Extravagance and Shortages in America’s Military (St. Paul MN: Zenith Press, 2007), pp. .

Adam B. Ulam, Expansion and Coexistence: Soviet Foreign Policy 1917-1973 (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1974), pp. .

Adam B. Ulam, Understanding the Cold War: A Historian’s Personal Reflections (Charlottesville VA: Leopolis Press, 2000), pp. .

The U.S. Army/Marine Corps, Counterinsurgency Field Manual (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), pp. .

United States Marine Corps, Small Wars Manual 1940 (Manhattan KS: Sunflower University Press, 2004), pp. .

J. Craig Venter, A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life (New York: Viking, 2007), pp. .

Jim Wallis, The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post-Religious Right America (New York: Harper One, 2008), pp. .

Margaret Walsh, The American West: Visions and Revisions (Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. .

Sheng-Wei Wang, China’s Ascendancy: An Opportunity Or a Threat? What Every American Should Know About China (Washington DC: International Publishing House for China’s Culture, 2007), pp. .

Nicholas Wapshott, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: A Political Marriage (New York: Sentinel, 2007), pp. .

H.G. Wells, The Shape of Things to Come (New York: Penguin Books, 2005), pp. .

Jay Winik, The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800 (New York: Harper Collins, 2007), pp. .

Robin Wright, Dreams & Shadows: The Future of the Middle East (New York: Penguin Press, 2008), pp. .

Bill Yenne, Indian Wars: The Campaign for the American West (Yardley PA: Westholme, 2006), pp. .

Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008), pp.