1. Arms and influence

By Thomas C. Schelling

This is an influential book written during the Cold War addressing the concept of deterrence. The author’s Purpose is to Discuss the “diplomacy of Violence” in Which States use the ability to cause harm to other nations as a bargaining power (Deterrence and compellence).

Significance to the Deterrence Community

Thomas Schelling was one of the intellectual founders of US Nuclear deterrence thinking, and his writing still resonates in the work of deterrence Scholars and practitioners today. Schelling’s profound analysis of the impact of nuclear weapons on diplomacy and international relations is timeless and essential reading. This book provides an intellectual and historical basis for understanding contemporary nuclear deterrence Issues.

2. Man, the state and war

By Kenneth Waltz

Man, the State, and War is the second of the Topical studies in international Relations to be Published. The Series was planned to demonstrate some of the contributions that existing bodies of knowledge are capable of making to the understanding of modern international relations. Even in a relatively new field of academic Specialization, the scholar doesn’t need to make a fresh start. Indeed it is incumbent upon him not to fail to draw on the existing storehouse of knowledge, One of those storehouses least systematically inventoried for its usefulness for international relations is Classical Western Political through.

3. Diplomacy

By Henry Kissinger

In this controversial and monumental book arguably his most important Henry Kissinger illuminates just what diplomacy is moving from a sweeping overview of his interpretation of history to a personal account of his negotiations with world leaders. Kissinger describes how the art of diplomacy and the balance of power has created the world we live in and shows how Americans, protected by the size and isolation of their country as well as by their idealism and mistrust of the Old World, have sought to conduct a unique kind of foreign policy based on the way they wanted the world to be as opposed to the way it is.

4. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

By John Mearsheimer

Many in the West seem to believe that “Perpetual Peace” among the Great powers is finally at hand. The end of the Cold war, so the argument goes, marked a sea change in how great powers interact with one another. We have entered a world in which there is little chance that the major powers will engage each other in security competition such as war, which has become an obsolescent enterprise. in the words of one famous author, the end of the Cold War has brought us to the “end of History”

5. Soft Power: The means to success in world Politics

By Joseph S. Nye

This series is designed to address the evolution of China’s global orientation, Challenges of globalization and global governance facing China and the rest of the world, actions and proposals for the future of sustainable development, prospects of China’s further capital and market liberalization, and China’s globalization trajectories as experienced by the world. This book series seeks to create a balanced global perspective by gathering the views of highly influential policy scholars and practitioners leaders from China and around the World.

6. Seeing Like a State

By James C. Scott

The Book Criticizes high-modernist city  planning using the case of Brasilia, the new built capital of Brazil. It argues that throughout history, top-down                      schemes to improve the human condition have often just done the opposite. The planned city leaves no allowances for growth, change, adaptation, and                        creative renewal. It must be laid out at a stroke, fixed and frozen forever. Total city planning disregards urban history and traditions, giving it no context. in              their neutrality, these cities could be anywhere at all. A city that was to become efficient and healthful would have to demolish much of what it had inherited.

7. The Strategy of Conflict

By Thomas C. Schelling

This Book is a masterpiece that should be recognized as one of the most important and influential books in the history of social science. Indeed, in just the first three chapters Schelling introduced enough ideas to revolutionize Social theory. Chapter 1 entitled ” The Retarded Science of International Strategy”

8. Nations Against State

By Gideon Gottlieb

This Book is the offshoot of a discussion group on the theme of ” A Changing World Order,”  A work entitled ” Nation Against State” Could be expected to address religion, Culture, language, and the roots of Nationalism. I wish to advise the reader that this book turns in a different direction it develops instead of innovative approaches for contending with brutal conflicts waged in the name of nationhood. The prevailing doctrines of statecraft currently invoked in efforts to check these conflicts evolved in an age when the scourge of war arose between states rather than within them. The basic conflicts that now threaten international peace.

9. The Clash of civilization

By Samuel P. Huntington

In this Book Mr. Huntington Explains how the population explosion in Muslim countries and the economic rise of East Asia are changing global politics. These developments challenge western dominance, Promote opposition to supposedly ” Universal” western ideals, and intensify inter civilization conflict over such issues as nuclear proliferation, immigration, Human rights, and democracy. The Muslim Population surge has led to many small wars throughout Eurasia, and rise of China Could lead to a global war of civilization.

10.The Post-American World

By Fareed Zakaria

The Great Story of our times is “the rise of the rest” the growth of countries such as China, India, Brazil, Russia, South Africa, Kenya, and many, many more This economics growths is generating a new global landscape where power is shifting and wealth and innovation are bubbling up in unexpected Place. Economic growth is also producing political confidence and National Pride.