History of US Foreign Policy

  • Year 501, Noam Chomsky, 2015
  • Rise to Globalism, 9th edition, Stephen E Ambrose and Douglas G Brinkley, 2011
  • America’s war for the greater Middle East, Andrew J Bacevich, 2016

American Empire

  • Base Nation, David Vine, 2015
  • Blowback, Chalmers Johnson, 2000
  • Sorrows of Empire, Chalmers Johnson, 2004
  • Nemesis, Chalmers Johnson, 2007
  • Failed states, Noam Chomsky, 2006
  • Rogue states, William Blum, 2014
  • The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle Against U.S. Military Posts, Catherine Lutz, 2008
  • Imperial Designs: Neoconservatism and the New Pax Americana, Gary Dorrien, 2004

policy by region

Middle East

  • The New American Imperialism, Bulent Gokay and Vassilis Fouskas, 2005
  • The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan, Michael Hastings, 2012
  • The Israel Lobby and US foreign policy, John J Mearsheimer and Steven M Walt, 2007
  • America Is Committing Awful War Crimes and It Doesn’t Even Know Why, Micah Zento, 2018

The Americas

  • The Uses of Haiti (3rd ed), Paul Farmer, 2004
  • Turning the tide, Noam Chomsky, 2015