![]() Jesse Kornbluth recommends: Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know About Global PoliticsĪll too often, natural geographical features are absent in geopolitical debates and analysis. O’Rourke is clear about the policy problem she articulates alternative hypotheses and she tests her theory using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. ![]() The book is a model for students thinking about their own research projects. ![]() A critical insight from the book is that policymakers rarely got what they wanted through efforts at regime change, which had profoundly negative effects on the populations and their attitudes toward the United States. ![]() covert operations supported replacing an authoritarian regime with a democratic government. She discovered that there were 10 times as many covert efforts as overt action, and only one in eight U.S. O’Rourke conducted significant archival research and created an original dataset of U.S.-backed covert and overt regime change attempts during the Cold War. I highly recommend Lindsey O’Rourke’s “ Covert Regime Change: America’s Secret Cold War,” published by Cornell University Press in 2018. James Goldgeier recommends: Covert Regime Change: America’s Secret Cold War Each tried in every way they could to explain this to Trump, only to learn - over and over again - that he had rigid, non-mainstream views on trade and defense that smart practitioners were unable to budge. Each group accepted the basic parameters of post-World War II U.S. ![]() Richard Bush recommends: Fear: Trump in the White Houseįor a riveting account of how foreign policy was really made in the Trump administration, I recommend Bob Woodward’s 2019 book “ Fear.” It describes a series of encounters that President Trump had with his economic advisers on the one hand, and his national security team on the other, through spring 2018. Recognizing that newer books and journal articles with fresh takes on the classic subjects don’t always make the syllabus, scholars and staff from Brookings Foreign Policy offer must-reads for students looking to supplement their coursework. But the more things change, the more they stay the same: Many will be assigned certain classics in their international relations, history, political science, and/or regional studies courses. Students across the United States are heading back to class - in utterly unconventional times, of course, with many attending virtually and under unusual schedules. ![]()
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