CURRENT READING:
The Once and Future King, T. H. White, 1958
Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences, eds. James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, 2003
RECENTLY READ or WATCHED:
2013, books/articles:
“Bad Reputation,” Jonathan Mercer, 2013
“Challenges for Korean Unification Planning,” Victor Cha & David Kang, 2011
“The Study of Critical Junctures: Theory, Narrative, and Counterfactuals in Historical Institutionalism,” Giovanni Capoccia and Daniel Kelemen, 2007
“Time Will Tell? Temporality and the Analysis of Causal Mechanisms and Processes,” Anna Gryzmala-Busse, 2011
“The Logic of Historical Explanation in the Social Sciences,” James Mahoney, Erin Kimball, and Kendra Koivu, 2009
“Path Dependence in Historical Sociology,” James Mahoney, 2000
“The Next Korean War,” Keir Lieber & Daryl Press, 2013
North Korea in Transition: Politics, Economy, Society, Scott Snyder and Kyung-Ae Park, 2012
“Narrative, Event-Structure Analysis, and Causal Interpretation in Historical Sociology,” Larry Griffin, 1993
“Israel’s Warlords,” Aluff Benn, 2013
“The Putin Doctrine,” Leon Aron, 2013
“Building Asia Pacific Regional Architecture: The Challenge of Hybrid Regionalism,” Richard Hu, 2009
“The End of the Two-State Solution,” Ben Birbaum, 2013
“Red White,” Ben Steil, 2013
“Regional Multilateralism in Asia and the Korean Question,” Won-hyuk Kim, 2009
“South Korean and Taiwanese Development and the New Institutional Economics,” David Kang, 1995
“International Relations Theory and the Second Korean War,” David Kang, 2003
“How Bush Bungled Asia: Militarism, Economic Indifference and Unilateralism have weakened the United States across Asia,” TJ Pempel, 2008
“The United States and Asia after Bush,” Michael Green, 2008, and “A Response to Michael Green,” TJ Pempel, 2008
“Don’t Come Home, America: The Case against Retrenchment,” Stephen Brooks, John Ikenberry & William Wohlforth, 2013
“Stability and Change in US Foreign Policy,” Barry Posen, 2007
“Pull Back,” Barry Posen, 2013
“The US-Japan Alliance: Anchoring Stability in Asia,” Joseph Nye & Richard Armitage
“The Advantages of an Assertive China,” Thomas Christensen, 2011
“Air-Sea Battle,” Norton Schwartz and Jonathan Greenert, 2012
AirSea Battle: A Point-of-Departure Operational Concept, Jan van Tol, et al., 2010
“Posing Problems without Catching Up: China’s Rise and Challenges for U.S. Security Policy,” Thomas Christensen, 2001
“China, the U.S.-Japan Alliance, and the Security Dilemma In East Asia,” Thomas Christensen, 1999
“Spirals, Security, and Stability in East Asia,” Jennifer Lind and Thomas Christensen, 2000
“Command of the Commons: The Military Foundation of U.S. Hegemony,” Barry Posen, 2003
“Fostering Stability or Creating a Monster? The Rise of China and U.S. Policy toward East Asia,” Thomas Christensen, 2006
“East Asia’s Economic Success: Conflicting Perspectives, Partial Insights, Shaky Evidence,” Robert Wade, 1992
“Democratic Partnership in Asia,” Daneil Twining, 2010
“The Myth of Asia’s Miracle,” Paul Krugman, 1994
“The Future of U.S.-China Relations: Is Conflict Inevitable?,” Aaron Friedberg, 2005
“China Engages Asia? Caveat Lector,” Nicholas Khoo, Michael Smith, and David Shambaugh, 2005
“Is China a Status Quo Power?,” A. I. Johnston, 2003
“American Political Methodology Debate: Where is the Battlefield?,” Bernhard Kittel, 2005, and ”Clarifying Comparative-Historical Methodology,” James Mahoney, 2005
“Why Republicans are the Party of White People,” Sam Tanenhaus, 2013
“H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable on Richard K. Betts. American Force: Dangers, Delusions, and Dilemmas in National Security (2012),” Loch Johnson, et al., 2012
“How We would Fight China,” Robert Kaplan, 2005
“Hegemon on the Horizon? China’s Threat to East Asian Security,” Denny Roy, 1994
“Extremism in Defense of Liberty” and “Upon Further Review: A CRB discussion of Political Extremism,” William Vogeli, et al., 2012-13
“After KKV: The New Methodology of Qualitative Research,” James Mahoney, 2010
“Symposium: Alexander George and Andrew Bennett’s Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences (2005),” Jack Levy, et al., 2006
“Case Studies and the Statistical Worldview: Review of King, Keohane, and Verba’s Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research (1994),” Timothy McKeown, 1999
“H-Diplo Roundtable on Meredith H. Lair’s Armed with Abundance: Consumerism & Soldiering in the Vietnam War (2011),” Michael Allen, et al., 2012
“Preparing for Sudden Change in North Korea,” Paul Stares & Joel Wit, 2009
“The Revisionist Imperative: Rethinking Twentieth Century Wars,” Andrew Bacevich, 2012
“Area Studies, Comparative Politics and the Role of Cross-Regional Small-n Comparison,” Rundra Sil, 2009
“Symposium: Case Selection, Case Studies, and Causal Inference,” David Collier, et al., 2008
“Making Use of the Past: Time Periods as Cases to Compare and as Sequences of Problem Solving,” Jeffrey Haydu, 1998
“H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable on Charles Kupchan’s How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace (2012),” Jeffrey Taliaferro, et al, 2012
“H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable on Boaz Atzili, Good Fences, Bad Neighbors: Border Fixity and International Conflict (2012),” Stephen van Evera, et al. 2012
“The Contribution of Area Studies,” Stephen Hanson, 2008
“Pragmatic Guide to Qualitative Historial Analysis in the Study of International Relations,” Cameron Thies, 2002
“Rebooting Republican Foreign Policy,” Daniel Drezner, 2013
“Case Study Methods in International Politcal Economy,” John Odell, 2001
2013, films/TV:
The Impossible, Juan Antonio Bayona, 2012
Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino, 2012
Anna Karenina, Joe Wright, 2012
Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow, 2012
Red Dawn, Dan Bradley, 2012
Lincoln, Steven Spielberg, 2012
2012, books:
Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International Ambition, Jack Snyder, 1991
Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science, Stephen van Evera, 1997
Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences, Alexander George and Andrew Bennett, 2005
The American Culture of War: A History of US Military Force from World War II to Operation Enduring Freedom, Adrian Lews, 2012
Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards, Henry Brady & David Collier, 2010
L.A. Confidential, James Ellroy, 1990
The World of Late Antiquity: A.D. 150-750, Peter Brown, 1971
Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research, Gary King, Robert Keohane & Sydney Verba, 1994
Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance – and Why They Fall, Amy Chua, 2007
Prey, Michael Crichton, 2002
The Origins of Alliances, Stephen Walt, 1987
Cooperation Among Democracies: The European Influence on U.S. Foreign Policy, Thomas Risse-Kappen, 1995
Lunar Park, Bret Easton Ellis, 2006
Empires, Michael Doyle, 1986
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters, Brian Myers, 2011
Hierarchy in International Relations, David Lake, 2009
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, 1899
2012, films/TV:
The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Ken Loach, 2006
My Way, Je-Gyu Kang, 2011
The Hobbit, Peter Jackson, 2012
Over There, Stephen Bochco, 2005
Expendables 2, Simon West, 2012
Total Recall, Len Wiseman, 2012
The Dictator, Sacha Baron Cohen, 2012
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Timur Bekmambetov, 2012
The People vs George Lucas, Alexandre Philippe, 2011
The Dark Knight Rises, Christopher Nolan, 2012
Game Change, Jay Roach, 2012
Margin Call, JC Chandor, 2011
Savages, Oliver Stone, 2012
Argo, Ben Affleck, 2012
The Ides of March, George Clooney, 2011
The Company, Mikael Salomon, 2007
J. Edgar, Clint Eastwood, 2011
Tree of Life, Terence Malick, 2011
Game of Thrones, (seasons 1 & 2), David Benioff, 2011-12
Lebanon, Samuel Moaz, 2010
The Descendants, Alexander Payner, 2011
Doubt, John Shanley, 2008
Prometheus, Ridley Scott, 2012
The Avengers, Joss Whedon, 2012
The Passion of Joan of Arc, Carl Dreyer, 1928
The Hunger Games, Gary Ross, 2012
The Man Who Fell to Earth, Nicholas Roeg, 1976
Too Big to Fail, Curtis Hanson, 2011
The Stoning of Soraya M., Cyrus Nowrasteh, 2009
Iron Lady, Phyllidia Lloyd, 2011
Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace (3-D), George Lucas, 1999/2012
Battleship, Peter Berg, 2012
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, Rick Goldsmith, 2009
Pillars of the Earth, Sergio Mimica-Gezzan, 2010
The Pentagon Papers, Rod Holcomb, 2003
24 (Season 4), Keifer Sutherland, 2005
Human Planet, BBC, 2011
2011, books:
Red Storm Rising, Tom Clancy, 1986
Perception and Misperception in International Politics, Robert Jervis, 1976
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy, 1877
Cooperation Under Anarchy, ed. Kenneth Oye, 1986
What’s the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America, Thomas Frank, 2004
East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute, David Kang, 2010
The Evolution of Cooperation, Robert Axelrod, 1984
War and State Formation in China and Early Modern Europe, Victoria Hui, 2005
Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Chinese History, Alastair Iain Jonhston, 1995
The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown, 2003
2011, films/TV:
The Complete Metropolis, Fritz Lang, 1927/2010
The Town, Ben Affleck, 2010
Rare Exports, Jalmari Helander, 2010
A Little Pond (Bridge at No Gun Ri), Sang-Woo Lee, 2009
The Pacific, Steven Spielberg, 2010
Confucius, Mei Hu, 2010
Moneyball, Bennet Miller, 2011
Up in the Air, Jason Reitman, 2009
A State of Mind, Daniel Gordon, 2006
Donnie Darko, Richard Kelly, 2001
Hunger, Steve McQueen, 2010
Kagemusha, Akira Kurosawa, 1980
Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Michael Bay, 2011
Contagion, Steven Soderbergh, 2011
24 (Season 3), Keifer Sutherland, 2003-04
Sopranos (Season 6), David Chase, 2006-07
Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Rupert Wyatt, 2011
Star Wars: Clone Wars (Season 2), George Lucas, 2009-10
The Tudors (Season 4), Michael Hirst, 2010
The Expendables, Sylvester Stallone, 2010
2010, books:
Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power, Niall Ferguson, 2003
World Out of Balance: International Relations and the Challenge of American Primacy, Stephen Brooks & William Wohlforth, 2008
Winning the Peace: America and World Order in the New Era, John Ruggie, 1996
Liberal Order and Imperial Ambition: Essays on American Power and World Politics, G. John Ikenberry, 2006
Lady Chatterly’s Lover, D. H. Lawrence, 1928
The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire, Raymond Pearson, 2002
The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire, Brian Crozier, 1999
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1991, Piers Brendon, 2008
Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, Niall Ferguson, 2004
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, 1811
Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maughm, 1915
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe, 1958
On the Civil War, Lucan, 60 AD
The New Korea: An Inside Look at Soth Korea’s Economic Rise, Myung Oak Kim and Sam Jaffe, 2010
Fables, Aesop, 600 BC
2010 films/TV:
Bloody Sunday, Paul Greengrass, 2002
Generation Kill, David Simon, 2008
The American, Anton Cobijn, 2010
The US vs John Lennon, David Leaf, 2006
Life, BBC, 2009
The Good, the Bad, the Weird, Jee Woon Kim, 2008
The Social Network, David Fincher, 2010
The Green Zone, Paul Greengrass, 2010
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Oliver Stone, 2010
Shanghai, Michael Hafstrom, 2010
Che, Steven Soderbergh, 2008
Rome, John Milius, 2005-07
Star Wars: Clone Wars (Season 1), George Lucas, 2008-09
The Tudors (Seasons 2 & 3), Michael Hirst, 2008, 2009
24 (Season 2), Keifer Sutherland, 2002-2003
The Hurt Locker, Katheryn Bigelow, 2009
Avatar, James Cameron, 2010
2009, books:
Short Cuts, Raymond Carver, 1970s-80s
Hard Times, Charles Dickens, 1854
Birth of the Modern: World Society, 1815-30, Paul Johnson, 1991
The Conservative Soul: Fundamentalism, Freedom, and the Future of the Right, Andrew Suillivan, 2006
Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlein, 1959
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner, 2006
China Rising: Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia, David Kang, 2007
2009 TV/film:
The Tudors (Season 1), Michael Hirst 2007
W., Oliver Stone, 2008
John Adams, Tom Hooper, 2008
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, David Fincher, 2008
Oldboy, Chan Wook Park, 2003
Baader Meinhof Complex, Uli Edel 2008
Gomorrah, Matteo Garrone, 2008
Band of Brothers, Steven Spielberg, 2001
District 9, Neill Blokamp, 2009
24 (Season 1), Kiefer Sutherland, 2001-2002
Battlestar Galatica, Ronald Moore, 2003-2009
Tae Guk Gi (The Brotherhood of War), Je Kyu Kang, 2008
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Josh Friedman, 2008-09
Terminator: Salvation, McG, 2009
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Michael Bay, 2009
Good morning Dr Kelly, Your father turned me on to your blog. Very interesting reading so far. Great reading list. You should include some Thomas Sowell. Keep up the great work! Dr C.
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My thoughts on movies like ‘Battleship’ are captured in these links: http://asiansecurityblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/oliver-north-hawks-the-next-modern-warfare-a-new-low-for-the-military-industrial-entertainment-complex/ and http://asiansecurityblog.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/top-10-gloriously-bad-ir-movies-you-still-should-see/.
I see these sorts of movie more for sociological reasons (pop culture channeling attitudes about American power) than for entertainment.
Thanks for coming to the site. Good luck in school.