whatup yall,
recently been doin a lot of work on Natl. Security/American foreign policy and thought id throw some material at the intellectuals who like to back their opinion with fact:
John Lewis Gaddis: Suprise Security and the American Experience. Basically dude traces American foreign policy to the security dilemma, seperates foreign policy era into three spheres: JQ Adams, FDR, Bush II, compares Bush II foreign policy with Clinton, etc.
Thomas Friedman- From Beruit to Jerusalem. GREAT BOOK if you wanna try and understand wtf is goin on in Lebanon.
John J Mearsheimer: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. Political theory of offensive realism, application of offensive realism in several case studies, future of realism post Cold War. Not much to say on realism and its application to terrorism though.
Kaplan. "Coming Anarchy." This was an article from 1994 in Foreign Policy magazine i believe. Its about Anarchy, domestic crime and war becoming the same thing, the decline of states, case studies of West Africa. Borrows and defends Hunington's clash of civilizations. Ill try to get a PDF of this if anyone is interested.
David Pollack. The Persian Puzzle. All about Iran/US. Democratic author who wrote a book in favor of invading Iraq but immediately backpeddled following the lack of WMD findings. Still a good author. Knows his shit.
recently been doin a lot of work on Natl. Security/American foreign policy and thought id throw some material at the intellectuals who like to back their opinion with fact:
John Lewis Gaddis: Suprise Security and the American Experience. Basically dude traces American foreign policy to the security dilemma, seperates foreign policy era into three spheres: JQ Adams, FDR, Bush II, compares Bush II foreign policy with Clinton, etc.
Thomas Friedman- From Beruit to Jerusalem. GREAT BOOK if you wanna try and understand wtf is goin on in Lebanon.
John J Mearsheimer: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. Political theory of offensive realism, application of offensive realism in several case studies, future of realism post Cold War. Not much to say on realism and its application to terrorism though.
Kaplan. "Coming Anarchy." This was an article from 1994 in Foreign Policy magazine i believe. Its about Anarchy, domestic crime and war becoming the same thing, the decline of states, case studies of West Africa. Borrows and defends Hunington's clash of civilizations. Ill try to get a PDF of this if anyone is interested.
David Pollack. The Persian Puzzle. All about Iran/US. Democratic author who wrote a book in favor of invading Iraq but immediately backpeddled following the lack of WMD findings. Still a good author. Knows his shit.
