Sebenarnya postingan ini agar e-mail yang saya kirim ke e-mail saya tidak hilang. E-mailnya berisi top ten buku-buku hubungan internasional yang menurut Prof.Stephen M.Waltz, salah satu Professor dalam bidang hubungan internasional di Harvard University, harus dibaca oleh para mahasiswa HI. Namun demikian, ada beberapa penambahan sehingga jumlahnya lebih dari sepuluh.Adapun diantaranya adalah:
1). Kenneth Waltz, Man, the State, and War.
An all-time classic, which I first read as a college sophomore. Not only did M, S & W provide an enduring typology of different theories of war (i.e., locating them either in the nature of man, the characteristics of states, or the anarchic international system), but Waltz offers incisive critiques of these three "images" (aka "levels of analysis.") Finding out that this book began life as Waltz's doctoral dissertation was a humbling moment in my own graduate career.
2). Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel.
Combines biology and macro-history in a compelling fashion, explaining why small differences in climate, population, agronomy, and the like turned out to have far-reaching effects on the evolution of human societies and the long-term balance of power. An exhilarating read.
3). Thomas Schelling, Arms and Influence.
He's a Nobel Prize winner now, so one expects a lot of smart ideas. Some of Schelling's ideas do not seem to have worked well in practice (cf. Robert Pape's Bombing to Win and Wallace Thies's When Governments Collide) but more than anyone else, Schelling taught us all to think about military affairs in a genuinely strategic fashion. (The essays found in Schelling's Strategy of Conflict are more technical but equally insightful). And if only more scholars wrote as well.
4). James Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed.
This isn't really a book about international relations, but it's a fascinating exploration of the origins of great human follies (like Prussian "scientific forestry" or Stalinist collectivized agriculture). Scott pins the blame for these grotesque man-made disasters on centralized political authority (i.e., the absence of dissent) and "totalistic" ideologies that sought to impose uniformity and order in the name of some dubious pseudo-scientific blueprint. And it's a book that aspiring "nation-builders" and liberal interventionists should read as an antidote to their own ambitions. Reading Scott's work (to include his Weapons of the Weak and Domination and the Arts of Resistance) provided the intellectual launching pad for my book Taming American Power).
5). David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest.
Stayed up all night reading this compelling account of a great national tragedy, and learned not to assume that the people in charge knew what they were doing. Still relevant today, no?
6). Robert Jervis, Perception and Misperception in International Politics.
I read this while tending bar at the Stanford Faculty Club in 1977 (the Stanford faculty weren't big drinkers so I had a lot of free time). Arguably still the best single guide to the ways that psychology can inform our understanding of world politics. Among other things, it convinced that I would never know as much history as Jervis does. I was right.
7). John J. Mearsheimer, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics.
Why do bad things happen to good peoples? Why do "good states" do lots of bad things? Mearsheimer tells you. Clearly written, controversial, and depressingly persuasive.
8). Ernst Gellner, Nations and Nationalism.
The state is the dominant political form in the world today, and nationalism remains a powerful political force. This book will help you understand where it came from and why it endures.
9). Henry A. Kissinger, White House Years & Years of Upheaval.
Memoirs should always be read with a skeptical eye, and Kissinger's are no exception. But if you want some idea of what it is like to run a great power's foreign policy, this is a powerfully argued and often revealing account. And Kissinger's portraits of his colleagues and counterparts are often candid and full of insights. Just don't take it at face value.
10). Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation.
Where did the modern world come from, and what are the political, economic, and social changes that it wrought? Polanyi doesn't answer every question, but he's a good place to start.
Additions:
1. Geoffrey Blainey The Causes of War;
2. Douglas North, Structure and Change in Economic History;
3. Valerie Hudson and Andrea den Boer, Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia’s Surplus Male Population;
4. Robert Gilpin, The Political Economy of International Relations;
5. Steve Coll, Ghost Wars; T.C.W. Blanning, The Origins of the French Revolutionary Wars;
6. R. R. Palmer, The Age of the Democratic Revolution;
7. Avi Shlaim, The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World;
8. Stephen Van Evera, Causes of War;
9. Samuel Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies;
10. Tony Smith, The Problem of Imperlalism;
11. Philip Knightley's The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth-Maker;
12. Joseph Tainter, The Collapse of Complex Societies;
13. Jack Snyder, From Voting to Violence;
14. Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capital, and European States 990-1990;
15.Jeff Taliaferro, Balancing Risk: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery;
16. Gaddis, The Long Peace;
17. Benedict Anderson's, Imagined Communities;
18. E.H. Carr, The Twenty Years' Crisis;
19. Gilpin, War and Change in World Politics;
20. Goldstein and Posner, The Limitis of International Law;
21. Jervis, The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution;
22. Waltz and Sagan, The Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons;
23. Paul Kennedy, Rise and Fall of the Great Powers;
24. Hans Morgenthau, Politics Among Nations;
25. Carl Schmitt, Nomos of the Earth ;
26. Martti Koskenniemi, Gentle Civilizer of Nations;
27. Walter Isaacson, The Wise Men; Six Friends and the World They Made;
28. Dean Acheson, Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department?;
29. George Kennan, The Decline of Bismark's European Order: Franco-Russian Relations, 1875-1890" (1979);
30. George Kennan,The Fateful Alliance: France, Russia, and the Coming of the First World War" (1985);
31. George Kennan,The Nuclear Delusion: Soviet-American Relations in the Atomic Age;
32. George Kennan, American Diplomacy, 1900–1950;
33. Rebecca West, Black Lamb, Gray Falcon;
34. Dr Michael Mandelbaum, Case For Goliath;
35. Baroness Margaret Thatcher, Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World ;
36. Robert K. Massie, Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War ;
37. Bevin Alexander, How America Got It Right;
38. Larry Schwiekart, America's Victories;
39. Robert Kagan, Return of History and the End of Dreams;
40. Benazir Bhutto, Reconciliation;
41. Machiavelli, The Prince;
42. Paul Kennedy, The Parliament of Man;
43. Aram Roston, The Man Who Pushed America to War;
44. Jeffrey Sachs, Common Wealth;
45. Dambisa Moyo, Dead Aid;
46. Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power;
47. Eric Wolf, Europe and the People without History;
48. Ellen Meiksins Wood, The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View ;
49. Ellen Meiksins Wood, Empire of Capital;
50. P. J. Cain and A. G. Hopkins, British Imperialism;
51. Robert Cox, Approaches to World Order;
52. Benno Teschke, The Myth of 1648;
53. Justin Rosenberg, The Empire of Civil Society;
54. Robert Brenner, The Economics of Global Turbulence;
55. Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation;
56. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, On The Law of Nations ;
57. Raymond Aron, Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations;
58. Karen Pryor, Don't Shoot the Dog;
59. John F. Campbell, Foreign Policy Fudge Factory;
60. C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite;
61. Hans Morgenthau, Truth and Power;
62. Waldo Heinrichs, American Ambassador ;
63. Daniel Deudney, Bounding Power;
64. Homer-Dixon, The Upside of Down;
65. Andrew H. Kydd, Trust and Mistrust in International Relations;
66. Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy;
67. Thucydides, History of Pelloponesian war;
list sebanyak ini adalah untuk mengingatkan saya apabila ada kesempatan mencari buku dan dapat kesempatan kuliah keluar negeri..InsyaAllah.
