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SAMS 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 SAMS books and will be located in the SAMS book area to the left of the Circulation desk for SAMS students (look for books with a blue star). If you are not a SAMS 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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Great Power Perspectives – Theory Section (all students)
301.2 G298i Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays. New York: Basic Books. 1973.
302.35 H361o 2018 Hatch, Mary Jo. Organization Theory: Modern, Symbolic, and Postmodern Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2018.
355.4 O82s Osinga, Frans. Science, Strategy and War: The Strategy Theory of John Boyd. New York: Routledge. 2007.
401 L192m 2003 Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2003.
501 K96s 1996 Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of the Scientific Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago. 1970. 43-91
128.4 J94t 2004 Francois Jullien, A Treatise on Efficacy (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004).
153.4 N724g 2004 Richard E. Nisbett, The Geography of Thought (New York: Free Press, 2003).
324.251075 M147p 2012 Richard McGregor, The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers (New York: Harper Perennial, 2010).
327.51 K61o 2011 Henry Kissinger, On China (New York: Penguin Press, 2012).
327.73051 A438d 2017 Graham Allison, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape the Thucydides Trap? (New York: Mariner Books, 2017).
330.951 K93c 2016 Arthur R. Kroeber, China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016).
355.02 L693u 2005 Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, Unrestricted Warfare (Brattleboro, VT: Echo Point Books, 1999).
951.02 J72c 1998 Alastair Ian Johnston, Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Chinese History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995).
172.420954 R888h 2012 Roy, Kaushik. Hinduism and the Ethics of Warfare in South Asia: from Antiquity to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
303.60954 B623m 2014 Biswas, Bidisha. Managing Conflicts in India: Policies of Coercion and Accommodation. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2015.
306.42 B496s Berger, Peter L., and Thomas Luckmann. The Social Construction of Reality. New York: Anchor Books, 1967. (Review Only)
327.101 D778t 2011 Drezner, Daniel W. Theories of International Politics and Zombies. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. (Review Only)
355.033554 A286i 2014 Ahmed, Ali. India’s Doctrine Puzzle: Limiting War in South Asia. New Delhi, India: Routledge, 2019.
954 P189m 2020 Pande, Aparna. Making India Great: The Promise of a Reluctant Great Power. New Delhi, India: HarperCollins, 2020.
954.035 G195h 2009 Gandhi, Mohandas, and Anthony Parel. Hind Swaraj and Other Writings. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
954.04 G942i Guha, Ramachandra. India after Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy. New York, NY: Harper Perennial, 2008.
954.05 G197i 2011 Ganguly, Sumit, and Rahul Mukherji. India since 1980. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
954.052 A861 2009 / DS485.K1943 Lavoy, Peter R. ed. Asymmetric Warfare in South Asia: The Causes and Consequences of the Kargil Conflict. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
973.913 R142m 2018 Raghavan, Srinath. The Most Dangerous Place: A History of the United States in South Asia. Haryana, India: Penguin Random House, 2018. (Recommended)
297.82 M732i 1985 Moojan Momen, An Introduction to Shia Islam: The History and Doctrines of Twelver Shi’ism, New Haven, 1987.
303.625 H232I 2004 Ahmad Nizar Hamseh, In the Path of Hezbollah, New York, 2004.
305.2350955 K45y 2007 Shahram Khosravi, Young and Defiant in Tehran, Pennsylvania, 2008.
305.60955 S194R 2000 Eliz Sanasarian, Religious Minorities in Iran, Cambridge, 2000. (Only 5 copies available – Not Required for Reference Only)
320.540955 A617p 2012 Ali Ansari, The Politics of Nationalism in Modern Iran, Cambridge, 2012. (ebook available)
320.577 M676p 2011 Ali Mirsepassi, Political Islam, Iran, and the Enlightenment: Philosophies of Hope and Despair, Cambridge, 2010. (ebook available)
322.10955 T112r 2019 Mohammed Tabaar, Religious Statecraft: The Politics of Islam in Iran, New York, 2019. (ebook available)
327.5505692 D614 2006 H.E. Chehabi, ed., Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years, London, 2006.
355.30955 O85v Afshon Ostovar, Vanguard of the Imam: Religion, Politics, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Oxford, 2016. (ebook available)
955 A617m 2019 Ali Ansari, Modern Iran Since 1797: Reform and Revolution, London, 2019. (ebook available)
955 F6681 2016 Richard Foltz, Iran in World History, Oxford, 2015.
955 H947i 2014 Shireen Hunter, Iran Divided: The Historical Roots of Iranian Debates on Identity. Maryland, 2014. (On Order)
955.05 A159h 2008 Arvand Abrahamian, A History of Modern Iran, Oxford, 2014.
955.051 165 2010 H.E. Chehabi and Vanessa Martin, eds., Iran’s Constitutional Revolution: Popular Politics, Cultural Transformations, and Transnational Connections, London, 2010. (ebook available)
955.0543 A719a 2009 Said Amir Arjomand, After Khomeini: Iran Under His Successors, Oxford, 2012. (On Order – ebook available)
955.25 N146r Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, New York, 2004. (On Order)
956 L673f 2004 Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East, Oxford, 2004. (ebook available)
153.4 N724g 2004 Nisbett, Richard E. The Geography of Thought. New York, NY: Free Press, 2003.
306.42 B496s Berger, Peter L., and Thomas Luckmann. The Social Construction of Reality. New York: Anchor Books, 1967.
327.5193 H458u 2014 Han, Jong-Woo and Jung Tae-Hern, eds. Understanding North Korea: indigenous perspectives. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015.
951.9 S495c 2016 Seth, Michael J. A Concise History of Korea. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016.
303.660947 C281r 2017 Carleton, Gregory. Russia: The Story of War. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2017.
327.47 S826p 2020 Stent, Angela. Putin’s World: Russia Against the West with the Rest. New York: Twelve, 2020.
330.947 P769 2012 Robinson, Neil, ed. The Political Economy of Russia. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2013.
330.957 G123s 2003 Hill, Fiona and Clifford Gaddy. The Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold. Washington, DC: Brookings, 2003.
355.020947 J81r 2019 Jonsson, Oscar. The Russian Understanding of War: Blurring the Lines between War and Peace. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2019.
355.0330485 S898 2018 Dahl, Ann-Sofie, ed. Strategic Challenges in the Baltic Sea Region: Russia, Deterrence, and Reassurance. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2018.
355.409 H673 2005 Krause, Michael D. and R. Cody Phillips, eds. Historical Perspectives of the Operational Art. Washington DC: Center of Military History, 2005.
355.40947 G545s 1991 Glantz, David. Soviet Military Operational Art: In Pursuit of Deep Battle. New York: Frank Cass, 1991.
911.47 G465r 2007 Gilbert, Martin. The Routledge Atlas of Russian History. 4th Edition. New York: Routledge, 2007.
947.01 P743r 2006 Poe, Marshall T. The Russian Moment in World History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.
947.08 S649r Smith, Hedrick. The Russians. New York: Ballantine Books, 1976.
947.086 B598r 2004 Billington, James. Russia in Search of Itself. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
947.086 M493r 2020 Medvedev, Sergei. The Return of the Russian Leviathan. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2020.
322.109561 E43m 2010 Eligur, Banu, The Mobilization of Political Islam in Turkey. 2014.
909.09712561 I34 1996 Brown, L Carl, ed. The Ottoman Imprint on the Balkans and the Middle East. New York: Columbia. 1996.
956 L673f 2004 Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East, Oxford, 2004. (ebook available)
956.101 K55o Kinross, Patrick. The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire. New York: Morrow. 1979.
956.102 T939 1966 Kedourie, Sylvia. Identity, Democracy and Politics. Frank Cass. 1996.
956.104092 C127e 2020 Cagaptay, Soner. Erdogan’s Empire: Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East. London: IB Tauris. 2019.
956.104 B297f 2017 Basaran, Ezgi. Frontline Turkey: The Conflict at the Heart of the Middle East. London. IB Tauris. 2017.
ROW Weeks 1-9 Reading List AY 22-23
ROW Week 1
355 C616ow Clausewitz, Carl von. On War, ed. and trans. by Michael Howard and Peter Paret. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976.
355.033573 M426c Matheny, Michael R. Carrying the War to the Enemy: American Operational Art to 1945. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011.
355.4 S968s Svechin, Aleksandr A. Strategy. Edited by Kent D. Lee. Minneapolis, MN: East View Publications, 1992.
940.27 N216em Epstein, Robert M. Napoleon’s Last Victory and the Emergence of Modern War Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994.
973.332 W318f 2006 Fischer, David Hackett. Washington’s Crossing. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
ROW Week 2
355.0094 R846a Rothenberg, Gunther E. The Art of Warfare in the Age of Napoleon. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981.
940.27 C455c Chandler, David G. The Campaigns of Napoleon. New York: Macmillan, 1966.
940.27 N216em Epstein, Robert M. Napoleon’s Last Victory and the Emergence of Modern War (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994.
973.62 J69g Johnson, Timothy D. A Gallant Little Army: The Mexico City Campaign. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2007.
ROW Week 3
952.03 P147j 2017 Paine, S. C. M. The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
968.048 N268b 2011 Nasson, Bill. The Boer War: The Struggle for South Africa. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: Spellmount, 2011.
ROW Week 4
940.31 W253 2013 Hamilton, Richard F., and Holger H. Herwig, ed., War Planning, 1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
940.4144 Z12g 2018 Ząbecki, David T. The Generals’ War: Operational Level Command on the Western Front in 1918. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018.
940.421 H581m Herwig, Holger H. The Marne 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle that Changed the World. New York: Random House, 2009.
ROW Week 5
947.084 G545w 2015 Glantz, David M. and Jonathan House. When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler, revised and expanded edition (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2015).
ROW Week 6
940.5426593 P896i Prados, John. Islands of Destiny: The Solomons Campaign and the Eclipse of the Rising Sun. New York: NalCaliber/Penguin, 2012.
ROW Week 7
951.9041 M653w Millett, Allan R. The War for Korea, 1950-1951: They Came From the North. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2010
ROW Week 8
355.40904 C581b Citino, Robert M. Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm: The Evolution of Operational Warfare. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2004.
959.704342 S534c Shaw, John M. The Cambodian Campaign: The 1970 Offensive and America’s Vietnam War. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2005.
ROW Week 9
355.40904 C581b Citino, Robert M. Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm: The Evolution of Operational Warfare. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2004.
172.420973 C771m 2004 Cook, Martin L. The Moral Warrior: Ethics and Service in the US Military. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2004.
Highlighted items are duplicates from previous pull weeks
153.42 K12tf 2013 Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking Fast and Slow. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2011.
160 B883a 2007 Brown, Neil and Keely, Stuart M. Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2007.
201.615 H149r 2013 Haidt, Johnathan, The Righteous Mind, Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion. New York: Vintage Books, 2013.
300.1 R464p Reynolds, Paul Davidson. A Primer in Theory Construction. A Viacom Company, Needham Heights, MA, 1971.
302.35 H361o 2018 Hatch, Mary Jo. Organization Theory: Modern, Symbolic, and Postmodern Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
306.42 B496s Berger, Peter, L and Luckman, Thomas. The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. New York: Doubleday, 1966.
320.54 A545i 2016 Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Revised Edition. New York: Verso, 1983.
355 C616ow Clausewitz, Carl von. On War. Translated and edited by Michael Howard and Peter Paret. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984.
355.0209 G258h Gat, Azar. A History of Military Thought from the Enlightenment to the Cold War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
355.033073 G123s Gaddis, John, L. Surprise, Security, and the American Experience. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2004.
355.033573 F853d 2004 Freedman, Lawrence. Deterrence. Malden: Polity Press. 2004.
355.4 L584 Leonhard, Robert, R. Fighting By Minutes, Time and the Art of War. 2nd Edition.
355.4 N323i Naveh, Shimon. In Pursuit of Military Excellence, The Evolution of Operational Theory. New York: Frank Cass Publisher, 1997.
355.43 R 783 The Roots of Strategy: Book 2. Jomini’s Art of War” in Ed. Curtis Brown. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1987. (eBook found in EBSCOhost).
378.013 S371e Schon, Donald. Educating the Reflective Practitioner. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1987.
501 K96s 1996 Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 3rd Edition. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
658.4 S476f 2006 Senge, Peter, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. New York: Doubleday, 2006.
658.4012 M667r Mintzberg, Henry. The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning. Toronto: Free Press; Maxwell Macmillan Canada, 1994.
901 G123L Gaddis, John Lewis. The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
973.332 W318f Fischer, David Hackett. Washington’s Crossing. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
172.42 F533m Fisher, David. Morality and War: Can War be Just in the Twenty-first Century? Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2011.
172.42 O66m 2006 Orend, Brian. The Morality of War. Toronto: Broadview Press, 2006.
330.122 S718m 2000 De Soto, Hernando. The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else. New York: Basic Books, 2000.
342.73 B414p 2010 Beeman, Richard. Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution. New York: Random House, 2009.
353.033073 S874w 2019 Stoker, Donald. Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean War to the Present. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
355 C616o 1984 Clausewitz, Carl von. On War. Edited and translated by Peter Paret and Michael Howard. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976.
355 M729m Hughes, Daniel J., ed. Moltke on the Art of War: Selected Writings. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1995.
355.001 E93 2011 Olsen, John Andreas, and Martin van Creveld. The Evolution of Operational Art: From Napoleon to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
355.02 D665p 2005 Dolman, Everett C. Pure Strategy: Power and Principles in the Space and Information Age. New York: Routledge, 2005.
355.0209 G258h Gat, Azar. A History of Military Thought from the Enlightenment to the Cold War.
355.020943 C831r Corum, James S. The Roots of Blitzkrieg: Hans von Seeckt and German Military Reform. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005.
355.028 I26a Ikenberry, G. John. After Victory: Institutions, strategic restraint, and the rebuilding of order after major wars. Princeton: University Press, 2001.
355.033573 M426c Matheny, Michael R., Carrying the War to the Enemy: American Operational Art to 1945. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011.
355.082 M235 1986 Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age, edited by Peter Paret, Gordon A. Craig, and Felix Gilbert. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.
355.4 F853s Freedman, Lawrence. Strategy: A History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
355.4 S894d 2013 Strachan, Hew. The Direction of War: Contemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
355.477309034 B722u Bonura, Michael A. Under the Shadow of Napoleon: French Influence on the American Way of Warfare from the War of 1812 to the Outbreak of WWII. New York: New York University Press, 2012.
658.4012 M667r Mintzberg, Henry. The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning.
808.3 L963e 2022 Lunsford, Andrea A., and John J. Ruszkiewicz, Everything’s an Argument. 9th ed. New York: Macmillan, 2022.
940.541247 H645r 2017 Hill, Alexander. The Red Army and the Second World War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
320.3072 L257i 2003 Landman, Todd. Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics: An Introduction. 3rd ed. New York: Routledge, 2013.
808.02 T929m 2018 Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. 9th ed. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
901 A756h 2000 Arnold, John H. History: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
153.9 E64r 2019 Epstein, David. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. New York: Riverhead Books, 2019.
634.9618 M163y Maclean, Norman. Young men and fire. Chicago: University Chicago Press,1992.
658.403 R628b 2009 Roam, Dan. The back of the napkin: Solving problems and selling ideas with pictures. New York: Portfolio, 2009.
153.83 R215t 2011 Rao, Venkatesch. Tempo: Timing, Tactics and Strategy in Narrative Decision-Making. Ribbonfarm, Inc, 2011.
303.4833 R175s 2016 Ramo, Joshua. The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune and Survival in the Age of Networks. London: Little, Brown and Company, 2016.
341.63 R528u 2018 Richemond-Barak, Daphne. Underground Warfare. New York: OUP, 2018.
355.02 S612r Simpkin, Richard. Race to the Swift: Thoughts on 21st Century Warfare. London: Brassey’s Defense Publishers, 1985.
355.4 L584f 2017 Leonhard, Robert. Fighting by Minutes. 2017.
519.542 S587s 2015 Silver, Nate. The Signal and the Noise. New York: Penguin, 2015.
623.4 S311a 2018 Scharre, Paul. Army of None. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2018.
658.40355 H662t 2015 Hines, Andy and Bishop, Peter. Thinking About the Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight. Social Technologies, LLC, 2006. ISBN 978-0-9789317-0-4.
813.6 S282o 2005 Scalzi, John. Old Man’s War. New York, NY: Tom Doherty Associates, 2005.
003 G411s 2011 Gharajedaghi, Jamshid. Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity: A Platform for Designing Business Architecture. 3rd ed. Amsterdam: Morgan Kaufmann, 2011.
003.54 T143a 2014 Taleb, Nassim Nicholas (Nick). Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder. New York: Random House, 2012. Chapters 1, 4, and 5 through 11. (127 pages).
003.7 J69e Johnson, Steve. Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software. New York, NY: 2002. 11-73 (63 pages).
153.42 B223m 2004 Bar-Yam, Yaneer. Making Things Work: Solving Complex Problems in a Complex World. New England, NESCI Knowledge Press: 2004.
153.42 D713L 1996 Dorner, Dietrich. The Logic of Failure: Why Things Go Wrong and What we Can Do to Make Them Right. New York: Metropolitan Books, 1996.
153.42 K12tf 2013 Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking, Fast and Slow. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
153.83 L666t 2014 Levitt, Steven D. and Stephen J. Dubner. Think Like a Freak. New York, NY: Harper Collins Press, 2014.
153.9 E64r 2019 Epstein, David. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. New York: New York, 2019.
160 B883a 2007 Browne, M. Neil, and Stuart M. Keeley. Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking. 8th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice, 2007.
302.35 A969h Axelrod, Robert and Michael D. Cohen. Harnessing Complexity: Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier. New York: Basic Books, 2000.
303.49 T347s 2015 Tetlock, Philip E., and Dan Gardner. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction. New York: Crown, 2015.
355.02 D665p 2005 Everett C. Dolman. Pure Strategy: Power and Principle in the Space and Information Age. London: Frank Cass, 2005.
658.4 K87pi Kotter, John. Power and Influence Beyond Formal Authority. New York, NY: Free Press, 1985.
658.4012 S399ao 1996 Schwartz, Peter. The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World. New York Doubleday, 1991.
720 L425h 2006 Lawson, Bryan. How Designers Think: The Design Process Demystified. 4th ed. Amsterdam: Architectural Press, 2006.
808 P844c 2008 Abbot, Porter. The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
917.8042 B749o 2019 Botkin, Daniel. Our Natural History: The Lessons of Lewis and Clark. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
940.2742 P228c Paret, Peter. The Cognitive Challenge of War: Prussia 1806. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009.
940.5425 S633d 1986 Slim, Field Marshall Viscount William. Defeat Into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945. New York, NY: Cooper Square Press, 2000
949.703 A557b Andreas, Peter. Blue Helmets and Black Markets: The Business of Survival in Sarajevo. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008.
971.018092 W855s Schama, Simon. Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations). New York, NYL Vintage, 1992.