in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002 and has taught at USC since 2008. And we now know that result.Brian Rathbun received his Ph.D. In the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Pollack’s book became the intellectual justification for Democrats to support the invasion.
Kenneth Pollack, The Threatening Storm: The Case For Invading Iraq. Which meant this book was inflicted on a whole generation of poor, unsuspecting IR grad students.ġ0.
In this case, however, Emily Eakin claimed in the New York Times that it was the "next big thing" in international relations. Ordinarily, this massive exercise in generating non-falsifiable arguments about an actorless empire would have slipped into obscurity a few months after publication. ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.ĩ. Makes Weinberger’s memoirs seem exciting by comparison. Warren Christopher, In the Stream of History: Shaping Foreign Policy for a New Era. This book, on the other hand, was a vast wasteland of barren prose.Ĩ. George Shultz’s memoirs were chock-full of useful bits of information. Back when I was a grad student, I needed to check out the memoirs of Reagan cabinet officials to see if there was anything that could e gleaned about a particular case. Caspar Weinberger, Fighting for Peace: Seven Critical Years in the Pentagon. According to his aides, this book heavily influenced Bill Clinton’s reluctance to intervene in the Balkans for the first two years of his presidency.ħ. Kaplan argued that "ancient hatreds" guaranteed perpetual conflict in the Balkans. It’s the most blatant use of the footnote as a marketing strategy that I have ever seen.Ħ. Still, there’s something extra that puts him on this list - over 90% of the footnotes in this book are to… other works by Kenichi Ohmae. And plenty of authors have predicted the demise of the nation-state in their books. Plenty of management consultants have tried to write the Very Big Book. Kenichi Ohmae, The End of the Nation State: The Rise of Regional Economies. Shintaro Ishihara, The Japan That Can Say No: Why Japan Will Be First Among Equals Written at the peak of Japan’s property bubble, Shintaro argued that Japan was destined to become the next great superpower. Third, by crying wolf so many times, Ehrlich numbed many into not buying actual, real environmental threats.Ĥ. Second, by garnering so much attention by being wrong, he contributed to the belief that alarmism was the best way to get people to pay attention to the environment. The first of many, many, many books in which Ehrlich argued that the world’s population was growing at an unsustainable rate, outstripping global resources and leading to inevitable mass starvation. Here, Carr argues that nationalism is a passing fad and that eventually the number of nation-states in the world will be reduced to less than twenty. Carr’s Twenty Years’ Crisis is one of the best books about international relations ever written. Writing this in 1908, he was historically, spectacularly wrong.Ģ. He then argued that an enlightened citizenry would glom onto this fact and render war obsolete. He argued that the benefits from international trade vastly exceeded the economic benefits of empire, and therefore the economic motive for empire no longer existed. This book has been widely misinterpreted, so let’s be clear about what Angell got right and got wrong.
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