This page links to selected bibliographies of some topics that GPF covers. The listings are by no means exhaustive, and are intended to give a general idea of the materials available on the topics. GPF has colected bibliographies on the following topics; the UN, the Security Council, Peacekeeping, Sanctions, Global Taxes, Globalization, Empire?, Nations and States, UN Finance and UN reform.
Adam Bartos and Christopher Hitchens
International Territory: the United Nations 1945-1995
London: Verso, 1994
Phyllis Bennis
Calling the Shots: how Washington dominates today's UN
Brooklyn: Olive Branch Press, 1996
Maurice Bertrand
ONU
Paris: Decouverte, 1995
Erskine Childers (ed.)
Challenges to the United Nations: building a safer world
London: Catholic Institute of International Relations, 1994
Erskine Childers with Brian Urquhart
Renewing the United Nations System
New York: Ford Foundation, 1994
Harlan Cleveland, Hazel Henderson & Inge Kaul
The United Nations: Policy and Financing Alternatives
Washington: Global Commission to Fund the UN, 1996
David Cortright and George A. Lopez
Economic Sanctions: panacea or peacebuilding in a post-cold war world?
Boulder: Westview Press, 1995
Mahbub ul Haq
Reflections on Human Development
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995
Mahbub ul Haq, Richard Jolly, Paul Streeten and Khadija Haq
The UN and the Bretton Woods Institutions: new challenges for the twenty-first century
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995
David Held
Democracy and the Global Order
Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995
Klaus Hüfner (ed.)
Agenda for change: New tasks for the United Nations
Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 1995
Craig Murphy
International Organization and Industrial Change: global governance since 1850
New York: Oxford University Press, 1994
New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade
United Nations Handbook
Revised and published annually; available from the Ministry and New Zealand Missions, Embassies and High Commissions worldwide.
Gerard Piel
Only One World: our own to make and to keep
New York: W H Freeman, 1992
Adam Roberts/Benedict Kingsbury (eds.)
United Nations, Divided World: The UN's Roles in International Relations
Oxford: Oxford University Press, second revised and expanded edition, 1993
Bruno Simma
The Charter of the United Nations: A Commentary
2 Vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, second edition, 2002
The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007
Helmut Volger (ed.)
A Concise Encyclopedia of the United Nations
Leiden/Boston, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, second revised edition, 2010
Ian Williams
The U.N. for Beginners
London: Writers and Readers, 1995
Rüdiger Wolfrum (ed.)
United Nations: Law, Policies and Practice. 2 Vols.
New, Revised English Edition.
Munich: C.H. Beck – Dordrecht/London/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1995
Bibliography on the Security Council
Thomas Bruha "Security Council", in Rüdiger Wolfrum (ed.) United Nations: Law, Policies and Practice, Vol. 1
Munich/Dordrecht: C. H. Beck/Martinus Nijhoff 1995, pp. 1147-1161.
Ingo Winkelmann "Security Council", in Helmut Volger (ed.) A Concise Encyclopedia of the United Nations
Leiden/Boston, Martinus Nijhoff Publishes, second revised edition 2010, pp. 649-657.
Sydney D. Bailey and Sam Daws
The Procedure of the UN Security Council (3rd ed.)
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998
The UN Security Council and Human Rights
New York: St Martin's, 1994
Sydney D. Bailey
Veto in the Security Council
New York: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1968
Mohammed Bedjaoui
The New World Order and the Security Council
Dordrecht: Nijhoff, 1994
Lincoln P. Bloomfield et al
Collective Security in a Changing World
Providence, RI: Watson Institute Occasional Paper No. 10, 1993
Comitato Nazionale per la Celebrazione del Cinquantesimo Anniversario dell'ONU
The Reform of the Security Council: an Italian proposal
Rome: Il Cigno Galileo Galilei, 1996
David Caron
The Legitimacy of the Collective Authority of the Security Council
AJIL, 1993
Nicol Davidson (ed.)
Paths to Peace: the UN Security Council and its presidency
New York: Pergammon, 1981
René-Jean Dupuy (ed.)
The development of the role of the security council: peace-keeping and peace-building
(Le développement du rôle du conseil de sécurité)
Dordrecht: Nijhoff, 1993
Bardo Fassbender
UN Security Council Reform and the Right of Veto: a constitutional perspective
The Hague: Kluwer, 1998
Ben Ferencz
Global Survival: security through the General Assembly
Dobs Ferry: Oceana, 1994
Vera Gowlland-Debbas
The Functions of the United Nations Security Council in the International Legal Systeme. The Role of Law in International Politics. Essays in International Relations and International Law.
Oxford University Press, Michael Byers (ed.), 2000
Vera Gowlland-Debbas
The Relationship between the Security Council and the International Criminal Court
in Journal of Armed Conflict Law, vol.3, 1998
K. Herndl
Reflections on the role, functions and procedures of the Security Council in the United Nations
Dordrecht: Nijhof, 1991
Walter Hoffmann
United Nations Security Council Reform and Restructuring
Livingston, NJ: Center for UN Reform Education, 1994
Martain Khor and Chin Oy Sim
Security Council Reform and Democratization: an overview
Geneva: International NGO Network on Global Governance and Democratization of International Relations, 1994
Jeffrey Laurenti
Reforming the Security Council: What American Interests?
New York:UNA-USA, 1997
Terence O'Brien
The United Nations: Legacy and Reform
CSS working Paper 6/97
Wellington, New Zealand, Centre for Strategic Studies, 1997
Sir Anthony Parsons
The Security Council: an uncertain future
London: David Davies Memorial Institute, Occasional Paper, 1994
Anjali V. Patil
The UN veto in world affairs 1946-1990, a complete record and case histories of the Security Council's veto
Sarasota: UNIFO, 1992
James A. Paul
Security Council Reform: arguments about the future of the United Nations system
New York: Global Policy Forum, 1995
Bruce Russett (ed.) (with contributions from Ian Hurd et al)
The Once and Future Security Council
New York: St. Martin's, 1997
Danesh Sarooshi
The United Nations and the Development of Collective Security. The Delegation by the UN Security Council of its Chapter VII Powers
Oxford: Clarendon, 1999
R. Sonnenfeld
Resolutions of the United Nations Security Council
Dordrecht: Nijhoff, 1990
Stanley Foundation
Getting Down to Cases: Enforcing Security Council Resolutions
Muscatine, Iowa: Stanley Foundation, 1998
Karel C. Wellens
Resolutions and statements of the United Nations Security Council, (1946-2000): a thematic guide
New York: Kluwer Law International, 2001. United Nations Association-USA Security Council Enforcement Project
Bibliography on Peacekeeping
Dennis C. Jett
Why Peacekeeping Fails
Houndmills/London: MacMillan Press, 2000
Ingrid A. Lehmann
Peacekeeping and Public Information. Caught in the Crossfire
London: Frank Cass Publishers, 1999
Kofi A. Annan
"Peace Operations and the United Nations: Preparing for the Next Century"
New York: United Nations Department of Peace Keeping Operations, 1996
The Development of the Role of the Security Council. Peace-keeping and Peace-building
Dordrecht; Boston: M. Nijhoff, 1993, X-VIII
Jarat Chopra (ed.)
Special issue on Peace-Maintenance Operations
Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations
Volume 4, Number 1, January-March 1998
Also published in book form: The Politics of Peace-Maintenance, Boulder; London: Rienner, 1998
Cindy Collins and Thomas G. Weiss
An Overview and Assessment of 1989-1996 Peace Operations Publications
Providence RI: Watson Institute Occasional Paper no. 28
Gunnar Fermann
Bibliography on international peacekeeping
Dordrecht; Boston: M. Nijhoff, 1992
Stephen M. Hill
Peacekeeping and the United Nations
Aldershot; Brookfield, USA: Dartmouth, 1996
International Peacekeeping
London, 1994--
Quarterly journal published by Frank Cass Publishers
Winrich Kühne (ed.)
Winning the Peace: Concept and Lessons Learned of Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
Ebenhausen: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, 1996
Anthony McDermott
United Nations Financing Problems and the New Generation of Peacekeeping and Peace Enforcement
Providence, RI: Watson Insitute Occasional Paper No. 16
Terry M. Mays
Historical dictionary of multinational peacekeeping
International Organizations Series no. 9
Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1996
Susan R. Mills
The Financing of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations: the need for a sound financial basis
New York: International Peace Academy Occasional Papers, 1989
Peacekeeping and International Relations
Ottawa, 1991--
Bimonthly journal published in cooperation with the Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies.
Michael Pugh (ed.)
The UN, peace, and force
London; Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1997
Michael Renner
Remaking U.N. Peacekeeping: U.S. Policy and Real Reform
Washington: National Commission for Economic Conversion and Disarmament, 1995
United Nations Department of Public Information
Teaching about peace-keeping and peacemaking
(Documentation accompanies a video (sold separately) about peace-keeping operations)
New York: United Nations, 1993
Ramesh Chandra Thakur
A crisis of expectations: UN peacekeeping in the 1990s
Boulder: Westview Press, 1995
Brian Urquhart
"For a UN Volunteer Force"
New York Review of Books, June 10, 1993
Brian Urquhart
"Who Can Police the World?"
New York Review of Books, May 12, 1994
Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies
Peace Operations Resource Site
A great new site with several resource tools, including a bibliographic database, sample syllabi, relevant journals and related web sites.
Agostinho Zacarias
The United Nations and international peacekeeping
London; New York: I.B. Tauris; distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by St. Martin's, 1996
Bibliography on Sanctions
Freezing Assets: The USA and the Most Effective Economic Sanction
New York: St. Martins Press, 1993
Amorim Group Report
Informal Open Ended Working Group on an Agenda for Peace - Subgroup on the Question of United Nations Imposed Sanctions (Chaired by Amb. Celso Amorim of Brazil)
United Nations General Assembly
Provisional Text dated 10 July 1996
Sydney D. Bailey
The UN Security Council and Human Rights
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994
Charles M. Becker and Jan H. Hofmeyr
The Impact of Sanctions on South Africa
Washington: Investor Responsibility Research Center, 1990
G.-L. Burci
The Indirect Effects of United Nations Sanctions on Third States: The Role of the Article 50 of the Charter
African Year Book of International Law, 1994, vol.2, pp.157-171
Barry A. Burciul
United Nations Sanctions: Policy Options for Canada
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade May, 1998
Barry E. Carter
International Economic Sanctions: improving the haphazard U.S. legal regime
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988
Carter Center of Emory University
Working Paper Series
Final Report of the Meeting on the Viability of International Economic Sanctions
Atlanta: Carter Center, 1996
Center for Economic and Social Rights
UN Sanctioned Suffering in Iraq
New York: CESR, 1996
Paul Conlon
"Sanctions infrastructure and Activities of the United Nations: a critical assessment"
Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, Task Force on Economic Sanctions
September 20, 1995
David Cortright and George A. Lopez
Economic Sanctions: panacea or peacebuilding in a post-Cold War world?
Boulder: Westview, 1995
David Cortright and George A. Lopez
The Sanctions Decade: Assessing UN Strategies in the 1990s
Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2000
Lori Fisler Damrosch
Enforcing Restraint: Collective Intervention in Internal Conflicts
New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1993
M.S. Daoudi and M.S. Danjani
Economic Sanctions: Ideals and Experience
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983
Margaret P. Doxey
International Sanctions in Contemporary Perspective
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987
United Nations Sanctions: Current Policy Issues
Dalhousie University: Center for Policy Studies, 1999
Towards a Framework for Multilateral Sanctions
Atlanta: Carter Center, 1996
Alexander George
Forceful Persuasion: Coercive Diplomacy as an Alternative to War
Washington: US Institute for Peace, 1991
Elizabeth D. Gibbons
Sanctions in Haiti: Human Rights and Democracy under Assault
Washington: The CSIS Press, 1999
Eric Hoskins
The Impact of Sanctions: A Study of UNICEF's Perspective
New York: UNICEF Office of Emergency Programmes
Eric Hoskins and Samantha Nutt
The Humanitarian Impacts of Economic Sanctions on Burundi
Providence, RI: Watson Institute Occasional Paper #29, 1997
Gary Hufbauer and Jeffrey Schott
Economic Sanctions Reconsidered
Washington: 1985
Sister Mary Evelyn Jegen
"Towards a Framework for International Sanctions Policy"
18 April 1996
David Leighton-Brown (ed.)
The Utility of International Economic Sanctions
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987
Michael P. Malloy
Economic Sanctions and U.S. Trade
Boston: Little, Brown, 1990
Robert K. Massie
Losing the Bonds
New York: Doubleday, 1998
Larry Minear, David Cortright, Julia Wagler, George A. Lopez and Thomas G. Weiss
Toward More Humane and Effective Sanctions Management: enhancing the capacity of the United Nations system
Providence, RI: Watson Institute, Occasional Paper #31, 1998
Kim Richard Nossal
Rain Dancing: Sanctions in Canadian and Australian Foreign Policy
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994
Pax Christi International
Economic Sanctions and International Relations
Brussels: Pax Christi, 1993
Michael Renner
Remaking U.N. Peacekeeping: U.S. Policy and Real Reform
Washington: National Commission for Economic Conversion and Disarmament, 1995
Secretary General of the United Nations
Report on Economic Assistance to States Affected by the Implementation of the Security Council Resolutions Imposing Sanctions Against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
New York: United Nations, 13 September 1996 (A/51/356)
Security Council
Non-Paper on Humanitarian Aspects of Sanctions
S/1995/300 (April 1995)
Juan Somavia
"The Humanitarian Responsibilities of the Security Council"
[The Gilbert Murray Lecture at Oxfam, Oxford UK, June 1996]
Stanley Foundation
Political Symbol or Policy Tool: Making Sanctions Work
Muscatine, Iowa: The Stanley Foundation, 1993
John Stremlau
Sharpening International Sanctions: Towards a Stronger Role for the United Nations
Washington, DC: Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, 1996
Koenraad Van Brabant
Can Sanctions be Smarter?: The Current Debate: Report of a Conference Held in London, 16-17 December 1998
London: The Humanitarian Policy Group and the Relief and Rehabilitation Network at the Overseas Development Institute, May 1999
Koenraad Van Brabant (ed.)
Sanctions: The Current Debate: A Summary of Selected Readings
London: The Humanitarian Policy Group and the Relief and Rehabilitation Network at the Overseas Development Institute, March 1999
Claudia von Braunmühl and Manfred Kulessa
The Impact of UN Sanctions on Humanitarian Assistance Activities
A Report on a Study Commissioned by the United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs
Berlin: Gesellschaft für Communication Management Interkultur Training, December 1995
Thomas G. Weiss, David Cortright, George A. Lopez and Larry Minear
Political Gain and Civilian Pain: humanitarian impacts of economic sanctions
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997
Bibliography on Global Taxes
P Arestis and M. Sawyer, "How Many Cheers for the Tobin Tax?" Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 21, Issue 6: November 1997.
Harlan Cleveland, Hazel Henderson & Inge Kaul, The United Nations: Policy and Financing Alternatives, Washington, Global Commission to Fund the United Nations, 1996.
Hans D'Orville and Dragoljub Najman, "A new system to finance the United Nations," Security Dialogue, vol. 25, no. 2 (June, 1994)
David Felix, "The Tobin Tax Proposal: background, issues and prospects," New York, UNDP Policy Paper, 1995.
Mahbub ul Haq, Inge Kaul and Isabelle Grunberg, (eds.), The Tobin Tax: Coping with Financial Volatility, New York, Oxford University Press, 1996.
Alan F. Kay and Hazel Henderson, "UNSIA Progress Report -- from concept to organization and test cases," Internal Paper, Global Commission to Fund the United Nations, August 24, 1995.
Ruben P. Mendez, "Financing the United Nations and the International Public Sector: Problems and Reform," Global Governance, 3 (1997), 283-310.
Ruben P. Mendez, "Paying for Peace and Development," Foreign Policy, Number 100 (Fall, 1995), pp. 19-31.
Ruben P. Mendez, "Harnessing the global currency market for the global common good," Choices, vol. 4, no. 1 (1995).
Ruben P. Mendez, "Financial Reform for the International Public Sector," Paper presented at the Wilton Park Conference, June, 1994.
Ruben P. Mendez, International Public Finance, New York, Oxford University Press, 1992.
Dragoljub Najman and Hans D'Orville, Towards a New Multilateralism: Funding Global Priorities, Paris/New York, Independent Commission on Population and Quality of Life, 1995.
Sherle R. Schwenninger, "How to Save the World: The Case for a Global Flat Tax" The Nation, May 13, 1996.
Parthasarathi Shome, "Global Incentive Policies: the case for environmental taxes," UNDP/Office of Development Studies Discussion Paper, 1996.
J. G. Smith, "Commentary: Exchange Rate Instability and the Tobin Tax," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 21, Issue 6: November 1997.
Environmental Taxes/Subsidies (including carbon taxes)
William Cline, The Economics of Global Warming, (Washington DC: IIE, 1991).
Antonia Cornwell, Environmental Taxes and Economic Welfare : Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions, New Horizons in Environmental Economics Series, Cheltenham, UK, 1997.
Andre de Moor and Peter Calamai, Subsidizing Unsustainable Development: Undermining the Earth with Public Funds (Earth Council Institute of Canada, 1997).
Henry Lee (ed.), Shaping National Responses to Climate Change (Washington DC: Island Press, 1995).
Richard D. Morgenstern, "Environmental Taxes: Is There a Double Dividend?" in Environment, 38:3, April 1996.
Frank Muller, "Mitigating Climate Change: The Case for Energy Taxes" Environment 38:2; March 1996.
OECD, Environmental Taxes and Green Tax Reform (Paris: OECD, 1997).
OECD, Subsidies and the Environment: Exploring the Linkages (Paris: OECD, 1996).
James Poterba and Dornbusch (eds.) Global Warming: Economic Policy Responses (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991).
David Malin Roodman, Getting the Signals Right: Tax Reform to Protect the Environment and the Economy, Worldwatch Paper 134 (Washington, DC: WorldWatch Institute, May 1997).
David Malin Roodman, Paying the Piper: Subsidies, Politics, and the Environment, Worldwatch Paper 133 (Washington, DC: WorldWatch Institute, December 1996).
Selected UN Documents
10 June 1996 - "New and Innovative Ideas for Generating Funds" (E/1996/CRP.1)(16 pages)
ECOSOC paper summarizing major proposals and giving documentary references.
April 1996 - report of debate at the Commission on Sustainable Development.
6 March 1996 - "Financial Resources and Mechanisms" (E/CN.17/1996/28)(17 pages)
Chairman's Summary of the Third Expert Group Meeting on Financial Issues of Agenda 21, held in Manilla, Philippines, 6-8 February 1996 - to be considered at the Commission on Sustainable Development (item 4).
24 February 1995 - "Financial Resources and Mechanisms" (E/CN.17/1995/29)(pages)
Chairman's Summary of the Second Expert Group Meeting on Financial Issues of Agenda 21, held in Glen Cove, USA, 15-17 February 1995.
See also the following reports of the Secretary General that are relevant to the issue: A/50/1, A/50/666, A/47/277-S/24111, A/48/935, and A/49/665.
Bibliography on Globalization
Bibliography on Empire?
Past Empires
Badian, Ernst (1967) Roman Imperialism in the Late Republic (South African University Press)
Black, Jeremy (2004) The British Seaborne Empire (Yale University Press)
Boxer, Charles R. (1965) The Dutch Seaborne Empire 1600-1800 (Knopf)
Boxer, Charles R. (1969) The Portuguese Seaborne Empire 1415-1825 (Hutchinson)
Brunschwig, Henri (1966) French Colonialism (Praeger)
Cain, Peter and Tony Hopkins (2001) British Imperialism, 1688-2000 (Longman)
Ferguson, Niall (2003) Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (Basic Books)
Fromkin, David (2001) A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (Owl Books)
Garnsey, P.D.S and Whittaker, C.R. (eds.) (1978) Imperialism in the Ancient World (Cambridge University Press)
Gibbon, Edward, and Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper (1993) Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire/Volumes 1, 2, & 3 (Knopf)
Hobsbawm, Eric J. (1989) The Age of Empire 1875-1914 (Vintage)
Hochschild, Adam (1999) King Leopold's Ghost (Houghton Mifflin)
Isaac, Benjamin (1997) The Limits of Empire: The Roman Army in the East (Clarendon Press)
James, Lawrence (1997) The Rise and Fall of the British Empire (St. Martin's Press)
Lieven, Dominic (2000) Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals (Yale University Press)
Luttwak, Edward N. (1976) The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire (Johns Hopkins University Press)
Parry, J.H. (1966) The Spanish Seaborne Empire (University of California Press)
Parry, J.H. (1940) The Spanish Theory of Empire in the Sixteenth Century (Cambridge University Press)
Porter, Bernard (1996) Lion's Share: Short History of British Imperialism 1850-1995 (ADDIS)
Schama, Simon (2002) The Fate of Empire 1776-2000 (Miramax)
Smith, Woodruff (1976) The German Colonial Empire (University of North Carolina Press)
Stern, Fritz (1977) Blood and Iron: Bismarck, Bleichroder and the Building of the German Empire (Random House)
Ste. Croix, G.E.M. de (1972) The Origins of the Peloponnesian War (Cornell University Press)
Thorton, Archibald Paton (1985) The Imperial Idea and Its Enemies: A Study in British Power (Palgrave Macmillan)
Yacono, X. (1973) La colonisation francaise (Presses Universitaires de France)
Theory and Comparative Empires
Doyle, Michael W. (1986) Empires (Cornell University Press)
Duverger, Maurice (ed.) (1980) Le concept d'empire (Presses Universitaires de France)
Hobson, John A. (1902) Imperialism: A Study (James Pott and Co.)
Hopkins, A.G. (ed.) (2002) Globalization in World History (Norton)
Howe, Stephen (2002) Empire: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press)
Lenin, V.I. (1916) Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (International)
Motyl, Alexander J. (2001) Imperial Ends: The Decay, Collapse and Revival of Empires (Columbia University Press)
Osterhammel, Jurgen and Shelley L. Frisch (Translator) (1997) Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview (Markus Weiner)
Said, Edward W. (1978) Orientalism (Pantheon)
Said, Edward W. (1993) Culture and Imperialism (Knopf)
US Empire?
Blum, William (2000) Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower (Common Courage)
Chomsky, Noam (2003) Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (Metropolitan Books)
Eland, Ivan (2004) The Empire Has No Clothes: U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed (Independent Institute)
Ferguson, Niall (2004) Colossus: The Price of America's Empire(The Penguin Press)
Garrison, Jim (2004) America as Empire: Global Leader or Rogue Power? (Berrett-Koehler Publishers)
Hardt, Michael and Toni Negri (2001) Empire (Harvard University Press)
Ikenberry, G. John (ed.) (2002) America Unrivaled: The Future of the Balance of Power (Cornell University Press)
Johnson, Chalmers A. (2000) Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (Owl Books)
Johnson, Chalmers A. (2004) The Sorrows of Empire (Metropolitan Books)
Khalidi, Rashid (2004) Resurrecting Empire (Beacon Press)
Kupchan, Charles (2002) The End of the American Era: US Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century (Knopf)
Magdoff, Harry (1969) The Age of Imperialism: The Economics of US Foreign Policy (Monthly Review Press)
Mahajan, Rahul (2003) Full Spectrum Dominance: US Power in Iraq and Beyond (Seven Stories Press)
Mann, Michael (2003) Incoherent Empire (Verso)
Mead, Walter Russell (1988) Mortal Splendor: The American Empire in Transition (Houghton Mifflin)
Mearsheimer, John (2003) The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (WW Norton)
Nye, Joseph S. (2004) Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics (Public Affairs)
Panich, Leo and Colin Leys (2003) The New Imperial Challenge (Monthly Review Press)
Richter, Daniel K. (2001) Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America (Harvard University Press)
Roy, Arundhati (2004) An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire (South End Press)
Smith, Neil (2003) American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization (University of California Press)
Van Alstyne, Richard W. (1960) The Rising American Empire (Norton)
Wallerstein, Immanuel (2003) The Decline of American Power (New Press)
Williams, William Appleman (1969) The Roots of the Modern American Empire (Random House)
Williams, William Appleman (1959) The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (World)
Wood, Ellen Meiksins (2003) Empire of Capital (Verso Books)
Zimmerman, Warren (2002) First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power (Farrar Straus & Giroux)
US Unilaterialism
Bennis, Phyllis and Noam Chomsky (2002) Before and After: US Foreign Policy and the September 11th Crisis (Olive Branch Press)
Boren, David, Edward J. Perkins and William Crowe (2000) Preparing America's Foreign Policy for the 21st Century (University of Oklahoma Press)
Daalder, Ivo H. and James M. Lindsay (2003) America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy (Brookings Institution)
Feffer, John, Barbara Ehrenreich and Michael T. Klare (2003) Power Trip: US Unilateralism and Global Strategy After September 11 (Seven Stories Press)
Foot, Rosemary, S. Neil MacFarlane and Michael Mastanduno (eds.) (2003) US Hegemony and International Organizations: The United States and Multilateral Institutions (Oxford University Press)
Haas, Richard (1998) The Reluctant Sheriff: The United States After the Cold War (Council on Foreign Relations Press)
Kagan, Robert (2003) Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order (Knopf)
Nye, Joseph S. (2002) The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone (Oxford University Press)
US Interventions
Blum, William (1995) Killing Hope: U. S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II (Common Courage)
Chomsky, Noam (2000) Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs (South End Press)
Furedi, Frank (1994) The New Ideology of Imperialism: Renewing the Moral Imperative (Pluto Press)
Haas, Richard (1994) Intervention: The Use of American Military Force in the Post-Cold War World (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
Ignatieff, Michael (2003) Empire Lite: Nation-Building in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan (Vintage)
Kolko, Gabriel (2002) Another Century of War (New Press)
Kolko, Gabriel (1988) Confronting the Third World: United States Foreign Policy, 1945-1980 (Pantheon Books)
Mahajan, Rahul (2002) The New Crusade: America's War on Terrorism (Monthly Review Press)
Humanitarian Intervention
Chatterjee, Deen K. & Don E. Scheid, eds. (2003) Ethics and Foreign Intervention (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
Chesterman, Simon (2003) Just War or Just Peace?: Humanitarian Intervention and International Law (Oxford Press)
Daalder, Ivo H., and Michael E. O'Hanlon (2000) Winning Ugly: NATO's War to Save Kosovo (Washington, DC: Brookings)
Des Forges, Alison (1999) Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda (New York: Human Rights Watch)
Finnemore, Martha (2003) The Purpose of Intervention: Changing Beliefs about the Use of Force (Ithaca:Cornell University Press)
Glennon, Michael J. (2001) Limits of Law, Prerogatives of Power: Interventionism After Kosovo (New York: Palgrave)
Hoffmann, Stanley, [Johansen, Robert C. and Sterba, James P.] (1997) The Ethics and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention (University of Notre Dame Press)
Holzgrefe, J. L. and Keohane, Robert O.[Editors] (2003) Humanitarian Intervention : Ethical, Legal and Political Dilemmas (Cambridge University Press)
International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (2001) The Responsibility to Protect
Jokic, Aleksandar and Wilkins, Burleigh [Editors] (2003) Humanitarian Intervention As a Moral and Philosophical Issue (Broadview Press)
Kuperman, Alan J. (2001) The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention: Genocide in Rwanda (The Brookings Institution)
Mamdani, Mahmood (2001) When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda (Princeton: Princeton University Press)
Minear, Larry, Eliasson, Jan (Introduction) and Dr. Hammock, John (2002) The Humanitarian Enterprise: Dilemmas and Discoveries (Kumarian Press)
Power, Samantha (2002) A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (New York: Basic Books)
Schnabel, Albrecht, and Ramesh Thakur, eds. (2000) Kosovo and the Challenge of Humanitarian Intervention: Selective Indignation, Collective Action, and International Citizenship (Tokyo: United Nations University Press)
Weiss, Thomas G. (2000) Humanitarian Challenges And Intervention (Westview Press)
Weissman, Fabrice [Medecins Sans Frontieres] (2004) In the Shadow of "Just Wars:" Violence, Politics, and Humanitarian Action (Cornell University Press)
Welsh, Jennifer M. (2004) Humanitarian Intervention and International Relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
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