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Essential Reading for all those interested in international politics and international relations. (List under construction)
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Honor and Polygamy
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Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face:
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The State and Revolution
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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
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Das Kapital
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Seven Things You Can't Say About China
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Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America
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The White Pill: A Tale of Good and Evil
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Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions
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Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
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Animal Farm
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Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
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The Captive Mind
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American Marxism
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Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
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Private Revolutions: Four Women Face China's New Social Order
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Why You Should Be a Socialist
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The Art of War
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The Leviathan
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
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The Social Contract
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Democracy in America
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The Human Condition
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On Liberty
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The Concept of the Political
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1984
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History of the Peloponnesian War
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Second Treatise of Government
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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A Theory of Justice
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The Discourses
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The Road to Serfdom
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Spin Doctor
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The Federalist Papers
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On War
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The Spirit of the Laws
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The Power Elite
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Politics Among Nations
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
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Selections from the Prison Notebooks
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
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Diplomacy Blitz: Take Charge
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Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
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The Open Society and Its Enemies - Volume Two: Hegel and Marx
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Nations and Nationalism
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Campaign Battle: Control the Masses
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Theory of International Politics
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Anatomy of the State
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Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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The End of History and the Last Man
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The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
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The Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the United States
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The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives
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Perpetual Peace and Other Essays
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Utopia
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Moral Man and Immoral Society: Study in Ethics and Politics
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Roadmap to Liberty: The Liberty-Approach to Every Economic, Political and Social Topic
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Lucas Vincent (Goodreads Author)
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Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
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A New Handbook of Political Science
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Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty
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World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction
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The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations, An Analytic Study
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Social Theory of International Politics
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The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations
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Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics
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Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings
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The United States of Elfin: Imagining a More Elven Style of Government
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States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China
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Phenomenology of Spirit
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Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics
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The Blood Never Dried: A People's History of the British Empire
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Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations
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Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy
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Electoral Systems and Party Systems: A Study of Twenty-Seven Democracies, 1945-1990
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The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War
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After Virtue
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Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
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Economics in One Lesson
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The Revolution: A Manifesto
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The Society of the Spectacle
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The Price Of Freedom: Political Philosophy From Thoreau's Journals
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The Anti-Federalist Papers
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Social Movements, 1768-2004
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Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail
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Who Rules America? Power, Politics and Social Change
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AfterTastes and Tales from Russia
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Politixworks
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The Allegory of the Cave
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Capitalism for Democrats: Why The Country Needs It Now
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1939 - The War That Had Many Fathers: The Long Run-Up to the Second World War
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The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
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An Essay on the History of Civil Society
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The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
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Mass Deception: Moral Panic and the U.S. War on Iraq
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