World Politics

International Relations Theory

1. "Politics Among Nations" by Hans Morgenthau

2. "Theory of International Politics" by Kenneth Waltz

3. "After Hegemony" by Robert Keohane

4. "Man, the State, and War" by Kenneth Waltz

5. "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics" by John Mearsheimer

Global Governance and International Organizations

1. "The United Nations, Peace and Security" by Ramesh Thakur

2. "Diplomacy" by Henry Kissinger

3. "Globalization and Its Discontents" by Joseph E. Stiglitz

4. "The Responsibility to Protect" by Gareth Evans

5. "International Organizations: Politics, Law, Practice" by Ian Hurd

Comparative Politics

1. "The Third Wave" by Samuel P. Huntington

2. "States and Social Revolutions" by Theda Skocpol

3. "Imagined Communities" by Benedict Anderson

4. "Political Order in Changing Societies" by Samuel P. Huntington

5. "The State in Capitalist Society" by Ralph Miliband

International Political Economy

1. "The Wealth and Poverty of Nations" by David Landes

2. "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" by Thomas Piketty

3. "The End of Poverty" by Jeffrey Sachs

4. "Why Nations Fail" by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

5. "The Great Transformation" by Karl Polanyi

Conflict and Security

1. "On War" by Carl von Clausewitz

2. "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu

3. "Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era" by Vipin Narang

4. "The Utility of Force" by Rupert Smith

5. "The Guns of August" by Barbara Tuchman

Diplomacy and Foreign Policy

1. "The Ambassadors" by Paul Sharp

2. "Diplomacy" by Henry Kissinger

3. "Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases" by Steve Smith, Amelia Hadfield, and Tim Dunne

4. "Hard Choices" by Hillary Rodham Clinton

5. "The Anarchical Society" by Hedley Bull

Democracy and Governance

1. "Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville

2. "The Federalist Papers" by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay

3. "On Democracy" by Robert A. Dahl

4. "The Road to Serfdom" by Friedrich Hayek

5. "The Origins of Political Order" by Francis Fukuyama

Human Rights and Global Justice

1. "The Rights of Man" by Thomas Paine

2. "The End of Human Rights" by Costas Douzinas

3. "Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction" by Andrew Clapham

4. "Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?" by Michael Sandel

5. "The Idea of Justice" by Amartya Sen

Terrorism and Insurgency

1. "Inside Terrorism" by Bruce Hoffman

2. "Dying to Win" by Robert Pape

3. "The Looming Tower" by Lawrence Wright

4. "Blood Year" by David Kilcullen

5. "The Forever War" by Dexter Filkins

Globalization

1. "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

2. "No Logo" by Naomi Klein

3. "The Lexus and the Olive Tree" by Thomas L. Friedman

4. "Globalization and its Discontents" by Joseph E. Stiglitz

5. "The Globalization Paradox" by Dani Rodrik