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Junior level

Conducting Independent Research in Political Science POL 300 (fa26)

  • The Fundamentals of Political Science Research by Kellstedt & Whitten

The Just Society POL 307 (fa26)

  • 2nd Treatise on Government by John Locke
  • ✔️ The Communist Manifesto by Marx & Engels
  • Capital, v.1 by Karl Marx
  • The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham & Mill
  • A Theory of Justice by John Rawls

American Political Thought POL 321 (fa26)

  • The Portable Abraham Lincoln
  • The Essential Federalist & Anti-Federalist Papers
  • Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Black Boy by Richard Wright

The Presidency & Executive Power POL 325 (fa26)

  • The American Presidency: An Institutional Approach to Executive Politics by William G. Howell

Experimental Methods in Social Science POL 341 (fa26)

  • Social Science Experiments: A Hands-on Intro. by Donald P. Green

Causes of War POL 388 (fa26)

  • Immanuel Kant: Perpetual Peace & Other Essays
  • Hitler’s World View: A Blueprint for Power by Eberhard Jackel
  • On the Origins of War: And the Preservation of Peace by Donald Kagan
  • Why I Write by George Orwell
  • The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
  • ✔️ The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I by Barbara W. Tuchman (my highlights)
  • Man, the State & War: A Theoretical Analysis by Kenneth N. Waltz

Senior level

International Relations: Russia’s Relations with Europe POL 440 (fa26)

  • The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History by Serhii Plokhy
  • Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia by Peter Pomerantsev

Art, Memory & Human Rights in Latin America POL 456 (fa26)

  • Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza
  • Operation Massacre by Rodolfo Walsh
  • Massacre in Mexico by Elena Poniatowska
  • Knitting the Fog by Claudia D. Hernández

Graduate level

The Comparative Political Economy of Development POL 523 (fa26)

  • The State & Capitalism in China by Pearson et al.
  • Region of Regimes: Prosperity & Plunder in the Asia-Pacific by T.J. Pempel
  • Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor & Our Climate by Dani Rodrik
  • The Political Economy of Latin America by Peter Kingstone
  • Democracy & Inequality in India: Political Economy of a Troubled Giant by Kohli & Murali

International Security Studies POL 554 (fa26)

  • Arms & Influence by Thomas C. Schelling

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