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ASLSP book lists found on this page might not be up-to-date!  Check the Academic Year (AY) listed at the top of each list to see if it is the most recent.  There may also be changes made to the curriculum after a list is posted.  There will be a note at the bottom of the list if changes were made after it was posted.  All the books on these lists are ASLSP books and will be located in the ASLSP book area to the far left of the Circulation desk for ASLSP students (look for books with a purple star).  If you are not a ASLSP student, many of these titles have one or more copies in our Main collection on the 2nd floor with the same call number.

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ASLSP AY25 F100 Strategy Book List

153.42 K12t 2011 Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking, Fast and Slow. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.

302.35 H361o 2006 Hatch, Mary Jo. Organization Theory: Modern, Symbolic, and Postmodern Perspectives. 4th Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

303.33 N994f 2011 Nye, Joseph. The Future of Power. New York: Public Affairs, 2011.

303.375 J33h 2020 Jankowicz, Nina. How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict. London: I.B. Tauris, 2020.

303.66 B565c 2017 Betts, Richard K. ed. Conflict after the Cold War: Arguments on Causes of War and Peace. 5th ed. New York, NY: Routledge, 2017.

322.5 C678sc Cohen, Eliot A.  Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime.  New York: The Free Press, 2002.

327.116 W435d 2004 Weitsman, Patricia A. Dangerous Alliances: Proponents of Peace, Weapons of War. Stanford University Press, 2004.

355.02 D665p 2005 Dolman, Everett Carl. Pure Strategy: Power and Principle in the Space and Information Age. Routledge, 2005.

355.02 L974s 2001 Luttwak, Edward N. Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press, 2001.

355.0209 N532 2023 Brands, Hal, ed.  The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023.

355.028 I26a Ikenberry, G. John. After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.

355.033073 S874w 2019 Stoker, Donald. Why America Loses Wars. Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean War to the Present. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

355.033073 W927o 2015 Worley, Robert. Orchestrating the Instruments of Power: A Critical Examination of the U.S. National Security System. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2015.

355.033573 S332a 1966  Schelling, Thomas. Arms and Influence. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.

355.33041 G542o 2018 Gaddis, John.  On Grand Strategy.  New York: Penguin Press, 2018. 

358.24 P214b 1996 Pape, Robert A. Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996.

938.05 T532Lt Strassler, Robert B.  The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War.  New York: The Free Press, 1996. students will need to ask a librarian to grab the book for them as we are using copies from a different class

973.922 A438e 1999 Allison, Graham T., and Philip Zelikow. Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York, NY: Longman, 1999.

ASLSP AY24 F200 Regional Studies – Europe Book List

301.2 G298i Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays. New York: Basic Books, 1973. Pull from SAMS Course Reserve

303.3096 Herbst, Jeffrey.  States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.

320.96 R418w Reno, William.  Warlord Politics and African States. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999.  Pull from SAMS Course Reserve

355.020947 J81r 2019 Jonsson, Oscar.  The Russian Understanding of War: Blurring the Lines Between War and Peace.  Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2019. Pull from SAMS Course Reserve

355.0330485 S898 2018 Dahl, Ann-Sofie, ed.  Strategic Challenges in the Baltic Sea Region: Russia, Deterrence, and Reassurance.  Georgetown: Georgetown University Press, 2018. Pull from SAMS Course Reserve

940.55 S541w 2008 James J. Sheehan. Where Have All the Soldiers Gone: The Transformation of Modern Europe. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008.

947.001 Poe, Marshall T. The Russian Moment in World History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pull from SAMS Course Reserve

955.05 A159h 2008 Ervand Abrahamian. A History of Modern Iran. Cambridge: CUP, 2008. Pull from SAMS Course Reserve

ASLSP AY24 F200 Regional Studies – INDOPACOM Book List

In the ASLSP reserves:

320.951 P769 Joseph, William A., ed. Politics in China: An Introduction. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2014. 

320.959309 M367k Marshall, Andrew MacGregor.  A Kingdom in Crisis: Thailand's Struggle for Democracy in the Twenty-First Century. London, UK: Zed Books, 2014. 

327.5105979 W865c Womack, Brantly. China and Vietnam: The Politics of Asymmetry. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

940.5426 M167f 2019 McManus, John C.  Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War.  New York: Caliber, 2019.

952.033 G619n Goldman, Stuart D. Nomonhan, 1939: The Red Army’s Victory That Shaped World War II.  Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2012. 

In the SAMS reserves:

128.4 J94t 2004 Jullien, Francois.  A Treatise on Efficacy: Between Western and Chinese Thinking.  Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004. 

327.5193 H458u 2014 (ebook available) Han, Jong-Woo and Jung Tae-Hern, eds. Understanding North Korea: Indigenous Perspectives. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015. 

954 P189m 2020 (Limited # of copies) Pande, Aparna. Making India Great: The Promise of a Reluctant Great Power. New Delhi, India: HarperCollins, 2020.  

ASLSP AY25 F400 Strategic Leadership Book List

In the ASLSP reserves:

301 J57s 1997 Jervis, Robert System Effects.

303.34 H465L 2013 Heifetz, Ronald A. Leadership without Easy Answers.

322.50973 H572p Herspring, Dale R. The Pentagon and the Presidency.

355.0209 N532 2023 (also an eBook) Brands, Hal The New Makers of Modern Strategy.

355.33041 A784 2017 Laver, Harry S., et al. The Art of Command

378.013 S371e 1990 Schön, Donald A. Educating the Reflective Practitioner. 

658.40714 C365c 2023 Catmull, Ed Creativity, Inc.

658.4092 G625p 2013 (also an eBookGoleman, Daniel, et al.  Primal Leadership.

658.45 B178g 2003 (also an eBookBaldoni, John. Great Communication Secrets of Great Leaders.

949.703 C596w Clark, Wesley K. Waging Modern War.

959.7043373 M167d McMaster, H. R. Dereliction of Duty.

In the SAMS reserves:

201.615 H149r Haidt, Jonathan. The Righteous Mind. 

658.4 S476f 2006 Senge, Peter M. The Fifth Discipline.

917.8042 B749o 2019 Botkin, Daniel. Our Natural History. 

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