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Post-2000 Reading

On American policy in general see:
B. Buzan, The United States and the Great Powers: World Politics in the 21st. Century, (Cambridge, Polity Press, 2004).
A. Callinicos, The New Mandarins of American Power: The Bush Administration’s Plans for the World, (Cambridge, Polity Press, 2003).
W. Cohen, America’s Failing Empire: US Foreign Relations since the Cold War, (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005).
D. Held and M. Koenig-Archibugi (eds.), American Power in the 21st. Century, (Cambridge, Polity Press, 2004).
J.S. Nye, The Paradox of American Power: Why the World’s Only Superpower Can’t go It Alone, (Oxford, OUP, 2002).
I. Wallerstein, The Decline of American Power: The US in a Chaotic World, (New York, NY, New Press, 2003).
Michael Cox, ‘September 11th and the U.S.Hegemony - Or Will the 21st Century Be American Too?’,  International Studies Perspectives, Vol. 3, (2002)

From two leading critical thinkers on US policy:
Z. Brzezinski, The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership? (New York, Basic, 2004).
N. Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance, (London, Hamish Hamilton, 2003).

Specifically on the ‘neo-conservatives’ see:
S. Halper and J. Clarke, America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004).
B. Hamm (ed.), Devastating Society: The Neo-Conservative Assault on Democracy and Justice, (London: Pluto Press, 2005).

And on themes of ‘imperialist’ behaviour:
N. Ferguson, Colossus: The Rise and Fall of American Empire, (London, Allen Lane, 2004).
L. Gardner and M.B. Young, The New American Empire: A 21st. Century Teach In on US Foreign Policy, (New York, NY, The New Press, 2005).
D. Harvey, The New Imperialism, (Oxford, OUP, 2003).
C. Johnson, The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy and the End of the Republic, (London, Verso, 2004.)
A Bacevich American Empire: the Realities and Consequences of American Diplomacy (Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 2002)

On 9/11 and the ‘war on terror’:
C. Calhoun, P. Price and A. Timmer, (Eds.) Understanding September 11th, (New York, The New Press, 2002).
F. Gerges, The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005).
F. Halliday, The Two Hours That Shook the World, (London: Saqi Books, 2002).
E. Hershberg and K. Moore, Critical views of September 11th: Analyses From Around the World, (New York, The New Press, 2002).
T. Mockaitis, and P.B. Rich, (Eds.) Grand Strategy in the War Against Terrorism, (London, Frank Cass, 2003).

On the nature of Islam and its international impact:
Bassam Tibbi Islam between Culture and Politics (Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2nd ed 2005)
F Halliday Islam and the Myth of Confrontation (London, IB Tauris 2nd ed 2002)
John L Esposito Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam (NY,Oxford University Press, 2003)
Bassam Tibbi The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World Disorder (Berkeley, University of California Press,2nd ed 2002)
Olivier Roy Globalised Islam (Paris, Editions du Seuil, 2002)
Samuel P Huntington The Clash of Civilisations and the Remaking of World Order (New York, Simon and Schuster,1996) remains a highly polemical work which some would argue has more relevance now.
F Gerges America and Political Islam: a Clash of Cultures or a Clash of Interests (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,1999)

Specifically on Iraq:
J. Dobbins et al. America’s Role in Nation-Building : From Germany to Iraq, (Santa Monica, CA, RAND, 2003).
S. Hoffman and F. Bozo, Gulliver Unbound: America’s Imperial Temptation and the War in Iraq, (Lanham, Rowman and Littlefield, 2005).
W. Shawcross, Allies: The US, Britain, Europe and the War in Iraq, (New York, NY, Public Affairs, 2004).
L Diamond Squandered Victory: the American Occupation and the Bungled Efforts to bring Democracy to Iraq (New York, Times Books, 2005)

On Russia’s role:
T. Ambrosio, Challenging America’s Global Pre-eminence: Russia’s Quest For Multi-Polarity, (Aldershot, Aldgate, 2005)
S. Rosefielde, Russia in the 21st Century: The Prodigal Superpower, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

On Russia and the West:
O. Antoniko and K. Pinnnick (Eds.) Russia and the European Union: Prospects for a New Relationship, (London, Routledge, 2005).
J. Goldgeiger, Power and Purpose: US Policy Towards Russia After the Cold War, (Brookings Institutions Press, 2003). 
A.J. Motyl, B.A. Ruble, L. Shevtsova, Russia’s Engagement With the West: Transformation and Integration in the 21st. Century, (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2005).

On Russia and China:
S.W. Garnett, Rapprochement or Rivalry ? Russia-China Relations in a Changing Asia, (Washington DC, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2000).
J. Wilson, Strategic Partners: Russian-Chinese relations in the Post-Soviet Era, (Armonk, NY, Sharpe, 2005).

On Europe and NATO:
C.Hill and M.Smith, International Relations and the European Union, (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005).
T. Lansford, All For One: Terrorism, NATO and the United States, (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2002).
W. Jacoby, The Enlargement of the European Union and NATO: Ordering From the Menu in Central Europe, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005).
F. Schimmelfennig, The EU, NATO and the Integration of Europe: Rules and Rhetoric, (Cambridge: CUP, 2003).

On US-European relations:
R. Kagan, Paradise and Power: American and Europe in the New World Order   (London: Atlantic Books, 2003).
H. Mouritzen and A. Wivel, The Geopolitics of Euro-Atlantic Integration, (London, Routledge, 2005).
J. Peterson and M. Pollack, Europe, America, Bush, Trans-Atlantic Relations in the 21st. Century, (London, Routledge, 2003).

On new thinking about war:
S. Chan, Out of Evil: New International Politics and Old Doctrines of War, (London, IB Tauris, 2005).
M. Duffield, Global Governance and the New Wars: The Merging of Development and Security, (London, Zed Books, 2001).
M. Shaw, The New Western Way of War, (Cambridge, Polity, 2005).
M. Walzer, Arguing About War, (New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2004).

Specifically on ‘Just War’:
A.F. Lang, Just Intervention, (Washington, Georgetown Press, 2003).
K.Z. Marten, Enforcing the Peace: Learning from the Imperial Past, (Columbia, NY, Columbia University Press, 2005).
F. Weissman, In the Shadow of Just Wars, (London, Hurst, 2004).

And on ethics, peace and governance:
R. Caplan, International Governance of War-Torn Territories: Rule and Reconstruction, (Oxford: OUP, 2005).
F. Fukuyama, State Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st. Century, (London, Profile, 2004).
M.V. Rasmussen, The West, Civil Society and The Construction of Peace, (Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2003).
K. Smith and M. Light (Eds.), Ethics in Foreign Policy, (Cambridge, CUP, 2001).
D. Sorenson and P.C. Wood, The Politics of Peace-Keeping in the Post-Cold War Era, (London, Franck Cass, 2005).

On US policy on human rights and international law:
M. Ignatief (ed.), American Exceptionalism and Human Rights, (Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2005)
J. Murphy, The United States and the Rule of Law in International Affairs, (Cambridge: CUP, 2004).
P. Sands, Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules, (London, Allen Lane, 2005).