What I am Reading

CURRENT READING:

L.A. Confidential, James Ellroy, 1990

Ancient Rome: A New History, David Potter, 2009

RECENTLY READ or WATCHED:

2012, books:

Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International Ambition, Jack Snyder, 1991

The World of Late Antiquity: A.D. 150-750, Peter Brown, 1971

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

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

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

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 RiseMyung 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

3 thoughts on “What I am Reading

  1. 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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