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 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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