Required Texts

Edward Mead Earle, with Gordon A. Craig and Felix Gilbert, eds., Makers of Modern Strategy: Military Thought from Machiavelli to Hitler (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971).

Paul Kennedy, The rise and fall of the Great Powers: Economic change and military conflict from 1500 to 2000 (London, 1988).

Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy (New York and London, 1994).

Richard Neustadt and Ernest May, Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision Makers, (New York, 1986).

David Reynolds, Britannia Overruled: British Policy and World Power in the 20th Century (New York, 1991).

Brendan Simms, Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy (New York, 2013).