10 Top international relations books like The Art of War in an Age of Peace: U.S. Grand Strategy and Resolute Restraint by Michael O'Hanlon

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The Art of War in an Age of Peace: U.S. Grand Strategy and Resolute Restraint

By: Michael O'Hanlon

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An informed modern plan for post-2020 American foreign policy that avoids the opposing dangers of r…

If you liked the international relations plot in The Art of War in an Age of Peace: U.S. Grand Strategy and Resolute Restraint by Michael O'Hanlon , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer, Stephen M. Walt

1. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

By: John J. Mearsheimer , Stephen M. Walt

4.07

Format: 484 pages, Hardcover

The Israel Lobby," by John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harva… read more

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  • international relations
  • nonfiction
  • the united states of america
Cover of Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by None, Bela Shayevich

2. Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

By: None , Bela Shayevich

4.29

Format: 192 pages,

From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Arms and Influence by Thomas C. Schelling

3. Arms and Influence

By: Thomas C. Schelling

4.37

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Traditionally, Americans have viewed war as an alternative to diplomacy, and military strategy as t… read more

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  • international relations
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
Cover of Battalion Commanders at War: U.S. Army Tactical Leadership in the Mediterranean Theater, 1942-1943 by Steven Thomas Barry

4. Battalion Commanders at War: U.S. Army Tactical Leadership in the Mediterranean Theater, 1942-1943

By: Steven Thomas Barry

3.50

Format: 93 pages, Hardcover

Examines the largely unsung leadership of U.S. Army battalion commanders in the Mediterranean Theat… read more

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  • military fiction
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5. The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45

By: John Toland

3.43

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Ja… read more

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  • nonfiction

6. Hiroshima

By: John Hersey

3.50

Format: 36 pages,

On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book… read more

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7. The Peloponnesian War

By: Donald Kagan

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

For three decades in the fifth century B.C. the ancient world was torn apart by a conflict that was… read more

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8. Starship Troopers

By: Robert A. Heinlein

4.01

Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The historians can’t seem to settle whether to call this one "The Third Space War" (or the fourth),… read more

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  • military fiction
"To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

9. Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders

By: L. David Marquet

4.05

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

"Leadership should mean giving control rather than taking control and creating leaders rather than … read more

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10. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more

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  • international relations
  • nonfiction
"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

11. Infamy: Pearl Harbor and its Aftermath

By: John Toland

3.46

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The controversial, best-selling investigation of the events surrounding Pearl Harbor acclaimed as "… read more

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12. The Guns of August

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

4.18

Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition

The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more

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  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

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13. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

By: David Brooks

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

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14. Rough Sleepers

By: Tracy Kidder

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Rough Sleepers, Tracy Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story o… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath by Peter Zeihan

15. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath

By: Peter Zeihan

4.18

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting… read more

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  • international relations
  • nonfiction
Cover of Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine by David H. Petraeus

16. Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

By: David H. Petraeus

4.06

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

Two leading authorities—an acclaimed historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strate… read more

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  • international relations
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
"A recurring theme of this book is that money spent on deterrence is seldom wasted, especially when considered against the costs incurred when the deterrence fails."

-David H. Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

"Hybrid warfare particularly appeals to China and Russia, since they are much more able to control the information their populaces receive than are their Western adversaries. A 1999 book, Unrestricted…"

-David H. Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

Cover of The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China by Robert D. Kaplan

17. The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China

By: Robert D. Kaplan

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A stunning exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just ou… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Where Great Powers Meet: America and China in Southeast Asia by David Shambaugh

18. Where Great Powers Meet: America and China in Southeast Asia

By: David Shambaugh

3.72

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

世界正在進入新冷戰時代嗎? 中國美國,誰會輸誰會贏? 欲知分曉,請隨作者一同深入兩強競逐實況的縮影之地:東南亞。 【內容說明】 國際關係錯綜複雜,但若問今日最大看點為何,答案應會眾口… read more

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  • international relations
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • the united states of america
Cover of How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill  Gates

19. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

By: Bill Gates

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism by Martin Wolf

20. The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

By: Martin Wolf

3.97

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the chief economics commentator of the Financial Times, a magnificent reckoning with how and w… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy by Henry Kissinger

21. Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy

By: Henry Kissinger

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and… read more

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  • international relations
  • nonfiction
"Well before the end of the 20th century however print had lost its former dominance. This resulted in, among other things, a different kind of person getting elected as leader. One who can present hi…"

-Henry Kissinger, Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy

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22. The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order (Bridging the Gap)

By: Rush Doshi

4.04

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries - not Nazi Germany, Imperial J… read more

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  • international relations
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
Cover of MegaThreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, And How to Survive Them by Nouriel Roubini

23. MegaThreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, And How to Survive Them

By: Nouriel Roubini

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Read and pay attention" (Martin Wolf, the Financial Times ): the bestselling author of Crisis Econ… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines by B.A. Friedman

24. On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines

By: B.A. Friedman

3.92

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

On Operational Art and Military Disciplines traces the history of the development of military staf… read more

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  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
"Operational art is what military staffs do to support tactics and strategy."

-B.A. Friedman, On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines

"Intelligence is not just information--it is information that has been acquired, processed, and analyzed based on its relevance for the commander, the staff, or the mission."

-B.A. Friedman, On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines

"Information warfare consists of everything a military force does to accurately sense and make sense of its interactions with its environment and enemy forces, preserve its ability to do so, and preve…"

-B.A. Friedman, On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines

"No military organization can exist without bureaucracy, as distasteful as it may be, and no professional organization should tolerate inefficient administration of bureaucratic requirements. As menti…"

-B.A. Friedman, On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines

Cover of Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century by Josh Rogin

25. Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century

By: Josh Rogin

4.13

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The explosive, behind-the-scenes story of Donald Trump’s high-stakes confrontation with Beijing, fr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • the united states of america
Cover of Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Craig L. Symonds

26. Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay

By: Craig L. Symonds

4.65

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From one of our most distinguished naval historians, the first wartime biography in a half-century … read more

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  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
Cover of To Risk It All: Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision by James G. Stavridis

27. To Risk It All: Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision

By: James G. Stavridis

3.99

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

From one of the great naval leaders of our time, a master class in decision-making under pressure t… read more

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  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power by Robert D. Kaplan

28. The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power

By: Robert D. Kaplan

3.82

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tr… read more

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  • international relations
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
Cover of Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias by Stephen Biddle

29. Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias

By: Stephen Biddle

3.88

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Since September 11th, 2001, armed nonstate actors have received increased attention and discussion … read more

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  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Art of War in an Age of Peace: U.S. Grand Strategy and Resolute Restraint by Michael O'Hanlon

30. The Art of War in an Age of Peace: U.S. Grand Strategy and Resolute Restraint

By: Michael O'Hanlon

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An informed modern plan for post-2020 American foreign policy that avoids the opposing dangers of r… read more

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  • international relations
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • the united states of america

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Transform Your Habits

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

John J. Mearsheimer , Stephen M. Walt

4.07

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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

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4.29

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4.17

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Instrument of War: The German Army 1914–18 (General Military)

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3.82

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