🐻 Cornell Government unofficial reading list, fall 2026
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Freshman level
Making Sense of World Politics GOVT 1817
- ✔️ The Cold War: A Very Short Intro. by Robert J. McMahon
- Theories of International Politics and Zombies: Apocalypse Edition by Daniel W. Drezner
Sophomore level
Moral Dilemmas in the Law GOVT 2432
- The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Law by Andrei Marmor
Politics in Dark Times GOVT 2655
- Between Past and Future by Hannah Arendt
- The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt
- Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics, Civil Disobedience, On Violence, Thoughts on Politics & Revolution by Hannah Arendt
American Political Thought GOVT 2665
- The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
- Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
- The Federalist by Hamilton et al.
- American Political Thought by Kramnick & Lowi
- Lincoln: Political Writings & Speeches
The History & Politics of Modern Egypt GOVT 2673
- Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture by Ziad Fahmy
- Modern Egypt: The Formation Of A Nation State by Arthur Goldschmidt Jr.