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Ph.D Exam in Security Studies: History Reading List

Updated spring 2009

Classics

1. C. von Clausewitz, On War

2. V. Lenin, “What is to be Done?,” “Imperialism”

3. N. Machiavelli, The Prince

4. ---. The Discourses

5. A. Mahan, The Influence of Seapower upon History

6. Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto

General Works:

7. G. Barraclough, An Introduction to Contemporary History

8. G. Blainey, The Causes of War

9. R. Cameron, A Consise Economic History of the World

10. G. Herring, From Colony to Superpower

11. M. Howard, War in European History

12. D. Kagan, On the Origins of War

13. P. Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers

14. Neustadt and May, Thinking in Time

Military History:

15. J. Black, War and the World: Military Power and the Fate of Continents

16. V. Hanson, Carnage and Culture

17. J. House, Combined Arms Warfare in the Twentieth Century

18. J. Keegan, A History of Warfare

19. J. Lynn, Battle

Making of the Twentieth-Century:

20. D. Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace

21. E. Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes

22. R. Holden, Armies without Nations: Public Violence and State Formation in Central America

23. T. Judt, Postwar

24. F. Katz, The Secret War in Mexico

25. M. MacMillan, Paris 1919

26. E. Manela, The Wilsonian Moment

27. R. Overy, Why the Allies Won

28. R. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism

29. P. Silva, The Soldier and the State in South America

30. G. Weinberg, A World at Arms

The Cold War

31. M. Evangelista, Unarmed Forces

32. J. L. Gaddis, Strategies of Containment

33. ---. We Now Know.

34. W. LaFeber, America, Russia, and the Cold War

35. L. Luthi, The Sino-Soviet Split

36. W. Odom, The Collapse of the Soviet Military

37. M. Trachtenberg, A Constructed Peace

38. Zelikow and Rice, Germany Unified and Europe Transformed

39. V. Zubok, A Failed Empire

The Superpowers and the Developing World

40. S. Cagaptay, Islam, Secularism and Nationalism in Modern Turkey

41. M. Connelly, A Diplomatic Revolution

42. D. Finkelstein et al., Chinese Warfighting: The PLA Experience

43. P. Gleijeses, Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States.

44. W. LeoGrande. Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977-1992

45. F. Logevall, Choosing War

46. R. McMahon, The Cold War on the Periphery

47. A. Musallam, From Secularism to Jihad

48. J. Nagl, Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife

49. M. Oren, Six Days of War

50. M. Perez-Stable, The Cuban Revolution: Origins, Course, and Legacy

51. The Soviet-Afghan War

52. B. Tibi, Arab Nationalism

53. O. Westad, The Global Cold War

54. S. Yaqub, Containing Arab Nationalism

The Chinese Military Tradition

55. D. Graff and R. Higham, A Military History of China

56. A. Johnson, Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Chinese History

57. J. Lewis and X. Litai, Imagined Enemies

58. A. Scobell, China’s Use of Military Force

59. M. Swaine and A. Tellis, Interpreting China’s Grand Strategy

60. A. Whiting, The Chinese Calculus of Deterrence

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