- 2026 READ or WATCHED
“Potential Use of Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons in a Korean Context,” Eva Lisowski, 2022
Engagement with North Korea: A Viable Alternative, Sung-Chull Kim and David Kang, 2009
The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia, Andrei Lankov, 2014
Retreat and its Consequences: American Foreign Policy and the Problem of World Order, Robert Lieber, 2016
Animal Farm, George Orwell, 1945
American Grand Strategy and East Asian Security in the Twenty-First Century, David Kang, 2017
“Warlords of Greece: Warfare in Homer’s World,” Josho Brouwers, 2026
“‘No Annihilation without Representation’: NATO Nuclear Use Decision-Making during the Cold War,” Jeffrey Michael, 2023
The China Choice: Why We Should Share Power, Hugh White, 2013
A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia, Aaron Friedberg, 2012
“Nuclear Brinkmanship, Limited War, and Military Power,” Robert Powell, 2015
“Nuclear Weapons and Delivery Systems that Might Be Implicated in Nuclear Use Involving the Korean Peninsula,” Matthew Korda, 2022
“Reducing or Exploiting Risk? Varieties of US Nuclear Thought and Their Implications for Northeast Asia,” Van Jackson, 2022
“South Korea’s Ominous Missile Deployments,” Decker Eveleth & Jeffery Lewis, 2026
“A Hegemonic Nuclear Order: Understanding the Ban Treaty and the Power Politics of Nuclear Weapons,” Nick Ritchie, 2019
“The Role of Missile Defense in North-East Asia,” David Wright, 2022
“Four Problems on the Korean Peninsula: North Korea’s Expanding Nuclear Capabilities Drive a Complex Set of Problems,” Gian Gentle et al., 2019
Japan, South Korea, and the United States Nuclear Umbrella: Deterrence after the Cold War, Terence Roehrig, 2017
“Checkmate in Iran,” Robert Kagan, 2026
“Prospects for DPRK’s Nuclear Use Scenarios and Deterrence Measures of the US and ROK Alliance,” Sangkyu Lee, 2022
“US-South Korea Nuclear Sharing: A Middle Path to Increase Security on the Peninsula,” Jennifer Lind & Daryl Press, 2025
“North Korea’s Choice of a Nuclear Strategy: a Dynamic Approach,” Manseok Lee and Sangmin Lee, 2020
“Countering the Risks of North Korean Nuclear Weapons,” Bruce Bennett et al., 2021
“Roundtable: The North Korean Nuclear Threat: Regional Perspectives on a Nuclear-Free Peninsula,” Chung-In Moon et al.. 2017
“Policy Roundtable: Are There any Good Choices When it Comes to North Korea?,” Van Jackson et al., 2018
“Nuclear-Use Cases for Contemplating Crisis and Conflict on the Korean Peninsula,” Paul Davis & Bruce Bennett, 2022
“North Korea’s Nuclear Gambit: Coercion, Deterrence, and the Escalation-De-Escalation Paradox,” Edward Kwon, 2025
“North Korea’s Nuclear Strategy: Its Ends, Ways, and Means,” Hwee-Rhak Park, 2025
“Finding Neverland: The American Right’s Doomed Quest to Rid Itself of Trumpism,” John Ganz, 2020
“An Investigation into North Korea’s ‘Real’ Nuclear Strategy: A Comparison with Pakistan’s Case,” Hwee-Rhak Park, 2022
“North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, and the Stability-Instability Paradox,” Terence Roehrig, 2016
“Nuclear Strategy of the DPRK in Modern Conditions,” Anastasia Barannikova, 2025
“Policies of Last Resort for Dealing with North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons Program,” Edward Kwon, 2018
“North Korean Nuclear Weapons, 2024,” Hans Kristensen et al., 2024
“The End of MAD? Technological Innovation and the Future of Nuclear Retaliatory Capabilities,” Charles Glaser, 2025
“An American Reckoning,” Ben Rhodes, 2026
“Tracking Mobile Missiles,” Thomas MacDonald, 2025
“Emerging Technologies and Challenges to Nuclear Stability,” Steve Fetter & Jaganath Sankaran, 2025
Maze, 2019
’71, Yann Demange, 2015
The Line, Alex Gibney, 2021
- 2025 READ or WATCHED
“The Path to American Authoritarianism,” Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way, 2025
“The “Balance of Fear”: Case Studies of North Korea’s Challenge to the United States and South Korea’s KMPR against North Korea,” Hwee-Rhak Park, 2024
“Ten Jolting Takeaways from Trump’s New National Security Strategy,” Rick Lnadgraf, 2025
“North Korea and Asia’s Evolving Nuclear Landscape,” Robert Jervis et al., 2017
“A Non-Nuclear US Ally’s Nuclear Preparedness Dilemma: South Korea’s “Three-Axis System,” Hwee-Rhak Park, 2024
“The Dilemma of Nuclear Disarmament: The Case of North Korea,” Jina Kim, 2020
“A Call to Arms: Kim Jong Un and the Tactical Bomb,” Ankit Panda, 2021
Kim Jong Un and the Bomb: Survival and Deterrence in North Korea, Ankit Panda, 2020
“Nuclear Chess on the Korean Peninsula: Analysing North Korea’s “Second Mission” and Strategic Implications,” Hwee-Rak Park & Wooyun Jo, 2025
“North Korea Defied the Theoretical Odds: What Can We Learn from its Successful Nuclearization?,” Vipin Narang & Nicholas Miller, 2018
“North Korea’s Evolving Nuclear Strategy,” Shane Smith, 2015
“A Thought on North Korea’s Nuclear Doctrine,” Choi Kang and Kim Gibum, 2017
“Assuring Assured Retaliation: China’s Nuclear Posture and U.S.-China Strategic Stability,” Fiona Cunningham & Taylor Fravel, 2015
“The Survivability of Nuclear Command-and-Control Capabilities,” James Acton, 2025
“Command and Control in Emerging Nuclear Nations,” Peter Feaver, 1992
“Defending the United States: Revisiting National Missile Defense against North Korea,” Jaganath Sankaram & Steven Fetter, 2021
“Golden Dome is a Trillion Dollar Gambit,” Todd Harison, 2025
“North Korean Nuclear Strategy: Envisioning Assured Retaliation,” Dong-Sun Lee & Iordanka Alexandrova, 2021
“North Korea’s Nuclear Command and Control Estimate: Variables and Trends,” Ildo Hwang, 2021
“Deterrence is Crumbling in Korea: How We Can Fix It,” Markus Garlauskas and Lauren D. Gilbert, 2023
“The United States and its Allies must be Ready to Deter a Two-Front War and Nuclear Attacks in East Asia,” Markus Garlauskas, 2023
“North Korea’s Strategically Ambiguous Nuclear Posture,” Hyun-Bin Cho & Ariel Petrovics, 2022
“North Korean Command and Control,” Shane Smith & Paul Bernstein, 2022
“North Korea’s Nuclear Strategy: Limited Nuclear Use and Escalation Management,” Inseok Yoo, 2025
“Beijing’s South China Sea Campaign of Intimidation Has Run Aground,” Gregory Poling, 2025
“Deliberate Nuclear First Use in an Era of Asymmetry” Even Larsen, 2024
Inadvertent Escalation: Conventional War and Nuclear Risks, Barry Posen, 1991
The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the US: A Speculative Novel, Jeffrey Lewis, 2018
“The Dawn of Automated Warfare,” Eric Schmidt & Greg Grant, 2025
“The Coming Pax Geriatrica,” Mark Haas, 2025
Nuclear Matters Handbook 2020, Defense Department
“How to Run Surveys: A Guide to Creating Your Own Identifying Variation and Revealing the Invisible,” Stefanie Stantcheva, 2022
“The Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime as a “Failed Promise”: Contestation and Self-Undermining Dynamics in a Liberal Order,” Nina Tannenwald, 2024
“Nuclear for Nuclear? Understanding Divergent South Korean and American Perceptions on Deterring North Korea,” Toby Dalton, et al., 2024
“Bridging the Ambiguity-Explicitness Gap in the US-South Korean Alliance,” Ian Bowers, 2025
“The Enshittification of American Power,” Henry Farrell, 2025
“How U.S. Forces Should Leave Europe,” Chris Chivvis, 2025
“South Korea’s New Naval Base,” Joshua Park, 2025
“The Importance of the Battle of Cannae,” Bret Devereaux, 2025
“The End of the Long American Century,” Robert Keohane & Joseph Nye, 2025
“Strategies of Prioritization: American Foreign Policy After Primacy,” Jennifer Lind & Daryl Press, 2025
“Israel’s Futile Air War,” Robert Pape, 2025
“Why Putin Still Fights,” Lawrence Freedman, 2025
Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis, Graham Allison, 1971
Oxford Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis, Juliet Kaarbo and Cameron Thies, 2024
Oxford Handbook of International Relations, Christian Reus-Smit & Duncan Snidal, 2008
“The 51st State that Never Was: Why the United States did Not Annex Canada,” Richard Maass, 2025
“Putin’s Point of No Return,” Michael Kofman, 2024
“Let Us Now Praise Great Men: Bringing the Statesman Back In,” Daniel Byman & Kenneth Pollack, 2001
“Taiwan’s Biggest Problem in Steeling Itself for War with China is Cultural,” Yuster Yu & Michael Hunzeker, 2025
“Re-Thinking Rome’s ‘Most Reluctant’ Emperor,” Lindsay Powell, 2025
“US Allies and Advesaries are Attempting Nuclear Deterrence without Nuclear Weapons,” Matthew Furmann, 2025
“Infrastructure, Hegemonic Transition, and Peaceful Change,” Nicholas Kitchen & Simon Curtis, 2025
“Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England,” Douglass North & Barry Weingast, 1989
“Legitimacy and Contestation in Global Governance: Revisiting the Folk Theory of International Institutions,” Ian Hurd, 2018
Perspectives on U.S. Policy Toward North Korea: Stalemate or Checkmate?, Sharon Richardson, 2006
Inside the Red Box: North Korea’s Post-Totalitarian Politics, Patrick McEachern, 2010
“Rearming Europe,” Andrea Gilli et al., 2005
“Europe, Deterrence, and Long-Range Strike,” Lotje Boswinkel, 2025
“Why US Extended Deterrence to South Korea Might Not Work,” Niv Farago, 2025
“Colloquium: Deterring North Korea,” Adam Mount et al., 2020
“Does America Face a “Ship Gap” With China?,” Stephen Biddle & Eric Labs
Rival Reputations: Coercion and Credibility in US-North Korea Relations, Van Jackson, 2016
“Nuclear Proliferation will Haunt ‘America First,'” Ankit Panda et al., 2025
“South Korean should Lean into Nuclear-Powered Submarines,” Jihoon Yu, 2025
“The Kremlin’s Strange Victory,” Fiona Hill, 2021
“Armed Neutrality for Ukraine is NATO’s Least Poor Option,” Jennifer Kavanaugh & Chris McCallion
- 2024 READ or WATCHED
“Under What Conditions Would South Korea Go Nuclear? Seoul’s Strategic Choice on Nuclear Weapons,” Min-Hyung Kim, 2023
“Putin’s Point of No Return: How an Unchecked Russia will Challenge the West,” Michael Kofman & Andrea Taylor, 2024
Nuclear Energy: What Everyone Needs to Know, Charles Ferguson, 2011
“The Inevitable Rivalry: America, China, and the Tragedy of Great-Power Politics,” John Mearsheimer, 2021
“Coercive Nuclear Campaigns in the 21st Century: Understanding Adversary Incentives and Options for Nuclear Escalation,” Daryl Press & Kier Lieber, 2013
South Korea’s Grand Strategy: Making Its Own Destiny, Ramon Pardo, 2022
“What would be Japan’s Role in a New Korean War?,” Ju Hyung Kim, 2024
“Strengthening the United Nations Command in Korea,” Chan-Mo Ku & Joo-Young Kim, 2024
“The Nukes We Need,” Daryl Press & Kier Lieber, 2009
“Atomic Aversion: Experimental Evidence on Taboos, Traditions, and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons,” Daryl Press, et al., 2013
“America Needs a Dead Hand More than Ever,” Adam Lowther & Curtis McGiffin, 2024
Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict, Viping Narang, 2014
Seeking the Bomb: Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation, Vipin Narang, 2022
The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy: Why Strategic Superiority Matters, Matthew Kroenig, 2018
“Great Power Competition will Drive Irregular Conflicts,” Jacob Shapiro and Liam Collins, 2024
“The End of MAD?: The Nuclear Dimension of U.S. Primacy,” Keir Lieber & Daryl Press, 2006
“The Return of Nuclear Escalation,” Daryl Press & Kier Lieber, 2023
“No Substitute for Victory: America’s Competition With China Must Be Won, Not Managed,” Matt Pottinger & Mike Gallagher, 2024
“A More European NATO,” Max Bergmann, 2024
“The Five Futures of Russia,” Stephen Kotkin, 2024
The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution: Statecraft and the Prospect of Armageddon, Robert Jervis, 1989
“Signaling Alliance Commitments: Hand-Tying and Sunk Costs in Extended Nuclear Deterrence,” Matthew Furman & Todd Sechser, 2014
“The Secret Success of Nonproliferation Sanctions,” Nicholas Miller, 2014
“Containing Global Russia,” Michael Kimmage & Hanna Notte, 2024
“Drones, the Air Littoral, and the Looming Irrelevance of the US Air Force,” David Barno & Nora Bensahel, 2024
2023 READ or WATCHED:
“The Long War in Ukraine,” James Goldgeier & Ivo Daalder, 2023
“Counterforce Dilemmas and the Risk of Nuclear War in East Asia,” Ian Bowers, 2022
“Western Leaders Ought to Take Escalation over Ukraine Seriously,” Bear Braumoeller & Michael Lopate, 2022
“Alliance Coercion and Nuclear Restraint: How the United States Thwarted West Germany’s Nuclear Ambitions,” Gene Gerzhoy, 2015
“The Military Role of Nuclear Weapons: Perceptions and Misperceptions,” Robert McNamara, 1983
“Japan’s Counterstrike: Learn from South Korea,” Shinichi Hirao, 2023
“The War That Defied Expectations,” Phillips O’Brien, 2023
“The West Cannot Cure Russia’s Nuclear Fever,” Hanna Notte, 2023
“Case Studies: Types, Designs, and Logics of Inference,” Jack Levy, 2008
“Counterfactuals, Causal Inference, and Historical Analysis,” Jack Levy, 2015
The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution: Power Politics in the Atomic Age, Daryl Press & Kier Lieber, 2020
“Ukraine’s Winnable War,” Gideon Rose, 2023
“A Tale of Two Cultures: Contrasting Quantitative and Qualitative Research,” James Mahoney & Gary Goertz, 2006
“The Myth of Multipolarity,” Stephen Brooks & William Wohlforth, 2023
“The Possibility Principle: Choosing Negative Cases in Comparative Research,” James Mahoney & Gary Goertz, 2004
“A Tale of Two Cultures: Contrasting Quantitative and Qualitative Research,” James Mahoney & Gary Goertz, 2006
“Beyond Ukraine’s Offensive,” Michael Kofman & Rob Lee, 2023
“Indoctrination Nation,” Jonathan Chait, 2023
“Agile Ukraine, Lumbering Russia,” Margarita Konaev and Owen J. Daniels, 2023
“How to Get a Breakthrough in Ukraine,” Michael McFaul, 2023
“America’s Looming Munitions Crisis,” Seth Jones, 2023
The Strategy of Conflict, Thomas Schelling, 1960
“The Russia that Might Have Been,” Alexander Gabuev, 2023
“Seoul’s Nuclear Temptations and the US-South Korean Alliance,” Ankit Panda, 2023
“Nuclear armed aggressor or ultimate doomsday prepper? Assessing the grand strategy of a nuclear-armed North Korea,” Todd Robinson & James Platte, 2021
“Five Futures for a Troubled Alliance,” Daryl Press & Jennifer Lind, 2021
“The Deliberate Employment of US Nuclear Weapons: Escalation Triggers on the Korean Peninsula,” Daryl Press, 2022
Avatar: The Way of Water, James Cameron, 2022
War Dogs, Todd Phillips, 2016
Baraka, Ron Fricke, 1992
The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: An Enduring Debate, Ken Waltz & Scott Sagan, 2012
“Japan’s Shift to a War Footing,” Zack Cooper & Eric Sayers, 2023
“Ukraine and the New Two War Construct,” Raphael Cohen, 2023
“American Defense Priorities After Ukraine,” Frank Hoffman, 2023
“Is China Planning to Attack Taiwan? A Careful Consideration of Available Evidence Says No,” Timothy Heath, 2022
2022 READ or WATCHED:
“Foreign Policy Analysis and the International Relations of Asia,” Yuen Foong Khong, 2014
“Airpower and Interdiction: Overcoming Defender Advantages,” John Maurer, 2022
“The Kadena Conundrum: Developing a Resilient Indo-Pacific Posture,” Stacie Pettyjohn, et al., 2022
“The Chinese Invasion of Taiwan,” Mike Pietrucha, 2022
“Reassessing China’s Power Projection Capabilities against Taiwan,” Collin Fox et al., 2022
“Ukraine’s Dream Could Be Taiwan’s Nightmare,” Michael Spirtas, 2022
“Listen to Xi Jinping about Taiwan,” Lyle Morris, 2022
“North Korea Raises the Nuclear Stakes,” Sue Mi Terry, 2022
“The Tank Is Not Obsolete, and Other Observations About the Future of Combat,” Rob Lee, 2022
“Invisible Blockades and Strategic Coercion,” Scott Savitz and Scott Truver, 2022
“Ukraine and the Future of Offensive Maneuver,” Stephen Biddle, 2022
“How the Weak Can Win – A Primer on Protracted War,” Bret Devereaux, 2022
“Strategic Airpower 101,” Bret Devereaux, 2022
“Russia’s Dangerous Decline,” Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Michael Kofman, 2022
“The Case for Getting Rid of the National Security Strategy,” Justin Logan & Benjamin Friedman, 2022
Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East, Etel Solingen, 2007
“Xi Jinping’s Political Agenda and Leadership: What do we know from his decade in power,” Mixin Pei, 2022
“Nuclear Proliferation over the Next Decade: Causes, Warning Signs, and Policy Responses,” Peter Lavoy, 2006
“Future Nuclear Proliferation Scenarios in Northeast Asia,” James Moltz, 2006
“Nuclear Deterrence 101,” Bret Devereaux, 2022
“What’s Missing from Mearsheimer’s Analysis of the Ukraine War,” John Cirincione, 2022
“The Sources of Russian Misconduct,” Boris Bondarev, 2022
“The Neocons Are Losing. Why Aren’t We Happy?,” Jordan Smith, 2022
“We Are On a Path to Nuclear War,” Jeremy Shapiro, 2022
“How to Make a Semi-Fascist Party,” Jonathan Chait, 2022
“Ukraine’s Path to Victory,” Andriy Zagorodnyuk, 2022
“Will Putin’s War in Ukraine Continue Without Him?,” Shawn Cochrane, 2022
“The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: More May Be Better,” Kenneth Waltz, 1981
“Nuclear Myths and Political Realities,” Kenneth Waltz, 1990
“Why Do States Build Nuclear Weapons: Three Models in Search of a Bomb,” Scott Sagan, 1996
How Nuclear Weapons Spread: Nuclear-Weapon Proliferation in the 1990s, Frank Barnaby, 1993
Unipolar Politics: Realism and State Strategies after the Cold War, ed. Ethan Kapstein & Michael Mastanduno, 1999
“Nuclear Proliferation: The Risks of Prediction,” Etel Solingen, 2018
“America’s Coming Age of Instability,” Steven Levitsky & Lucan Way, 2022
“The Alternate History of China,” Andrew Nathan, 2022
“Putin’s Next Move in Ukraine,” Liana Fix & Michael Kimmage, 2022
Ops Center, Tom Clancy, 1995
“Central Banks at War,” Paul Poast, 2015
“Dueling Realisms,” Stephen Brooks, 1997
“A Tale of Two Realisms: Expanding the Institutions Debate,” Randall Schweller & David Priess, 1997
“For a Progressive Realism: Australian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century,” Nick Bisley et al., 2022
“The Legacy of the Soviet Afghan War and Its Role in the Ukrainian Invasion,” Emily Hoge, 2022
“Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal International Order,” John Mearsheimer, 2019
“Ukraine’s Lessons for Taiwan,” Jeffrey Hornung, 2022
“Rome: Decline and Fall?,” Brett Devereaux, 2022
“Xi Jinping’s Quest for Order: Security at Home, Influence Abroad,” Sheena Greitens, 2022
“Systemic Errors,” Francis Fukuyama, 2022
“Putin Loses No Matter How This Plays Out,” Jean-Baptiste Vilmer, 2022
“Is Ron DeSantis the Future of Trumpism?,” Jonathan Chait, 2022
“Ukraine’s Lessons for Japan: Securing the First Island Chain,” Nozomu Yoshitomi, 2022
“A Proxy War in Ukraine Is the Worst Possible Outcome — Except For All the Others,” Sam Winter-Levy, 2022
“The View from Taiwan: Get Real about Territorial Defense,” Lee Hsi-Min & Michael Hunzeker, 2022
“How the Weak Can Win: A Primer on Protracted War,” Brett Devereaux, 2022
“The Roman Dictatorship: How Did It Work? Did It Work?,” Brett Devereaux, 2022
“The Unfreezable Asset: Gold, Sanctions, and Russia,” Daniel McDowell, 2022
“China’s Strategic Assessment of Russia: More Complicated than You Think,” Yun Sun, 2022
“Waking a Sleeping Giant: What’s Next for German Security Policy?,” Sophia Besch & Sarah Brockmeier, 2022
“How the Bundeswehr Should Spend its Money,” Michael Shurkin, 2022
“How China Sees the World,” H.R. McMaster, 2020
“Feeding the Bear: A Closer Look at Russian Army Logistics and the Fait Accompli,” Alex Vershinin, 2021
“The Strategy That Can Defeat Putin,” Eliot Cohen, 2022
“Making Coercion Work Against Russia,” Jane Vaynman & Tristan Volpe, 2022
“Maintaining America’s Nuclear Deterrent,” John Maurer, 2022
“The New Strategic Narcissists,” Robert Lieber, 2022
“The Military Logic Behind North Korea’s Missile Medley,” Richard Weitz, 2022
“Beyond the Korean Peninsula: The Role of the ROK’s Light Aircraft Carrier,” Jihoon Yu, Erik French & Yong Han Park, 2022
“Containment 2.0: Sanctions for the Long Haul,” David Lake, 2022
“The Russian Military’s Debacle in Ukraine,” Isaac Chotiner & Michael Kofman, 2022
“The Russian Sanctions Regime and the Risk of Catastrophic Success,” Erik Sand & Suzanne Freeman, 2022
“The Unknown Oligarch Fighting for an Endless Korean War,” Eli Clifton, 2022
“The Dangerous Allure of the No-Fly Zone,” Mike Pietrucha & Mike Benitez, 2022
“The Sorry State of Russia,” Andrew Wood, 2022
“Dangerous Revisionism,” Francis Fukuyama, 2022
“The Timing of Peace Initiatives: Hurting Stalemates and Ripe Moments,” William Zartman, 2001
“Why Europe has No Say in the Ukraine Crisis,” Jeremy Shapiro, 2022
“Two-Level Game and the Politics of the United States-North Korea Negotiation,” Ihn-Hwi Park, 2020
“South Korea’s Foreign Relations and Security Policies,” Scott Snyder & Leif-Eric Easley, 2014
“The Impact of Political Alternation on South Korea’s Foreign Policy,” Marco Milani and Antonio Fiori, 2019
“Seoul Must Step Up,” Suk-Yeol Yoon, 2022
“After Elections, South Korea could become more Hawkish, Combative,” Daniel Larison, 2022
Noble House, James Clavell, 1981
“South Korea’s New President Understands the Threat From Pyongyang,” Benjamin Young, 2022
“America Needs to Watch South Korea’s Presidential Election,” Victor Cha, 2021
“North Korea’s War on Women,” Joshua Stanton, 2022
“South Korea’s Domestic Political Divide on North Korea,” Clint Work, 2018
“South Koreans Could Learn A Lot From the War in Ukraine,” In-Bum Chun, 2022
“Progressive and Conservative Visions of Inter-Korean Relations,” Marco Milani, 2019
“Two-Level Games and the Policy Process: Assessing Domestic–Foreign Policy Linkage Theory,” Harry Noone, 2019
“International Negotiation: Some Conceptual Developments,” Barry O’Neill, 2018
“Negotiating Agreements in International Relations,” John Odell & Dustin Tingley, 2013
“As Finland Watches: From Alignment to Alliance,” Matti Pesu, 2022
“Diplomacy and Domestic Politics: The Logic of Two-Level Games,” Robert Putnam, 1988
“Signaling America’s New Middle East Foreign Policy,” Morgan Kaplan, 2022
“Closure: How Negotiations End,” William Zartman, 2016
“Invading Ukraine is a really Bad Idea,” Matt Yglesias, 2022
“Two-Level Games in Foreign Policy Analysis,” Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt and Patrick Mello, 2017
“Signaling America’s New Middle East Foreign Policy,” Morgan Kaplan, 2022
“The Gold Medal for Foreign Policy Goes to Germany,” Stephen Walt, 2022
“How Kim Jong-Un Runs the World’s Most Successful Failed State,” Sue Mi Terry, 2022
“Foreign-Policy Decision-Making,” Douglas Stuart, 2008
“Liberal Illusions Caused the Ukraine Crisis,” Stephen Walt, 2022
“South Korea’s ‘Doves’ Seek Peace through Strength,” Jongsuk Jeong, 2022
The Borgias, Neil Jordan, 2011-13
Double Indemnity, Billy Wilder, 1944
Show Me a Hero, Paul Haggis, 2016
The Fog of War, Errol Morris, 2003
All Quiet on the Western Front, Edward Berger, 2022
Denial, Mick Jackson, 2016
Brubaker, Stuart Rosenberg, 1980
Dog Day Afternoon, Sydney Lumet, 1975
The Battle at Lake Changjin, Chen Kaige, 2021
Boat People, Ann Hui, 1982
The Big Red One, Samuel Fuller, 1980
Escape from Mogadishu, Seung-Wan Ryoo, 2021
D.P., Dong-Min Kim, 2021
Attica, Stanley Nelson, 2021
Munich: The Edge of War, Christian Schwochow, 2021
The Last Duel, Ridley Scott, 2021
The Americans, seasons 1-3, Joe Weisberg, 2013-16
“The Pentagon is in Desperate Need of an Intervention from the Top,” Dustin Walker, 2022
“Fortifications,” Bret Deveraux, 2021
“Why Intermediate Range Missiles are a Focal Point in the Ukraine Crisis,” Brennan Deveraux, 2022
“To Live and Let Die: Food, Famine, and Administrative Violence in
Democratic Kampuchea, 1975-1979,” James Tyner & Stian Rice, 2015
“Putin’s Wager in Russia’s Standoff with the West,” Michael Kofman, 2022
Matrix: Resurrections, Lana Wachovsky, 2021
Don’t Look Up, Adam McKay, 2021
The Book of Boba Fett, Dave Filoni, 2022
2021 Books/Articles:
Gai-Jin, James Clavell, 1994
King Rat, James Clavell, 1962
Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order, Alex Cooley and Dan Nexon, 2020
“Economic Sanctions against North Korea,” Ruediger Frank, 2018
“Nuclear Anti-Proliferation Policy and the Korea Conundrum,” John Mueller, 2020
“Conventional Counterforce Dilemmas,” Ian Bowers, 2021
2021 Movies/TV:
The Reagans, Matt Tyrnauer, 2020
Gomorrah, Roberto Saviano, 2014-2021
60 Days: Designated Survivor, 2019
Jarhead, Sam Mendes, 2005
Roots, 1977
Desert One, Barbara Kopple, 2019
General Idi Amin Dada: A Self-Portrait, Barbet Schroeder, 1974
My Brothers and Sisters in the North, Sung-Hyung Cho, 2016
American Factory, Steven Bognar, 2019
Ray Donovan, 2013-2020
Gomorra, 2014
Lost, 2004-2010
2020 Books/Articles:
The Lost World, Michael Crichton, 1995
“Pandemic and Political Order,” Francis Fukuyama, 2020
“The Stability and Breakdown of Empire: European Informal Empire in China, the Ottoman Empire, and China,” Jesse Savage, 2010
“Unrest Assured: Why Unipolarity is Not Peaceful,” Nuno Monteiro, 2011
“How Hegemony Ends,” Alex Cooley and Dan Nexon, 2020
“A Flawed Framework: Why the Liberal International Order Concept is Misguided,” Charles Glaser, 2019
“Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal International Order,” John Mearsheimer, 2019
“This Isn’t Sparta,” Bret Devereaux, 2019
“Why Empires Reemerge: Imperial Collapse and Imperial Revival in Comparative Perspective,” Alexander Motyl, 1999
“The Sparta Fetish is a Cultural Cancer,” Myke Cole, 2019
Tai-Pan, James Clavell, 1966
“History will Judge the Complicit,” Anne Applebaum, 2020
“How Could Vietnam Happen? An Autopsy,” James Thomson, 1968
Fighting with America, James Curran, 2016
Remaking the Middle East, Anthony Bubalo, 2018
A Wary Embrace, Bobo Lo, 2017
Choosing Openness, Andrew Leigh, 2017
2020 Movies/TV:
1917, Sam Mendes, 2019
Snowpiercer (season 1), Graeme Mason, 2020
A Resistance,
The Man Standing Next,
The Battle – Road to Victory
Haywire
Hanbando
Greyhound
Nuremberg
Judgment at Nuremberg
Heaven and Earth
Blood Alley
Conan the Barbarian
The Outpost
Haywire
Borat Subsequent Movie Film, Jason Woliner, 2020
Mrs. America, Coco Francini, 2020
Cross of Iron, Sam Peckinpaugh, 1977
Ray Donovan, Ann Biderman, 2013-2020
Dirty Harry, Don Siegel, 1971
El Cid, Anthony Mann, 1961
Mark Felt – the Man Who Brought Down the White House, Peter Landsman, 2017
The Magnificent Ambersons, Orson Welles, 1942
The Outpost, Rod Lurie, 2020
Hotel Mumbai, Anthony Maras, 2019
Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood, 2006
Letters from Iwo Jima, Clint Eastwood, 2006
True Detective (season 3), Nic Pizzolatto, 2019
The Battle of the River Plate, Michael Powell, 1956
Sink the Bismarck!, Lewis Gilbert, 1960
White Heat, Raoul Walsh, 1949
The Big Heat, Fritz Lang, 1953
The Name of the Rose, Giacomo Battiato, 2019
Gallipoli, Peter Weir, 1981
The Battle of Jansari, Kyung-Taek Kwak, 2019
Winter in Wartime, Martin Koolhoven, 2011
War and Peace, Sergey Bondarchuk, 1968
Ali, Michael Mann, 2001
Red Cliff, John Woo, 2008
Cinema Paradiso, Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988
The Hunt, Craig Zobel, 2020
King Kong, Ernest Schoedsack, 1933
La Dolce Vita, Federico Fellini, 1960
8 1/2, Federico Fellini, 1963
La Strada, Federico Fellini, 1954
L’Avventura, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960
Better Call Saul (season 5), Vince Gilligan, 2020
The Plot Against America, David Simon, 2020
The Thin Red Line, Terence Malick, 1998
History of the World, Part I, Mel Brooks, 1981
Adventures of Robin Hood, Michael Curtiz, 1938
Ivanhoe, Richard Thorpe, 1952
Betrayed, Costa-Garvas, 1988
Ikiru, Akira Kurosawa, 1956
Hidden Fortress, Akira Kurosawa, 1958
Ran, Akira Kurosawa, 1985
Kagemusha, Akira Kurosawa, 1980
Throne of Blood, Akira Kurosawa, 1957
The Curse of the Golden Flower, Zhang Yimou, 2006
Hero, Zhang Yimou, 2004
Shadow, Zhang Yimou, 2019
The House of Flying Daggers, Zhang Yimou, 2004
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Ang Lee, 2001
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny, Woo-Ping Yuen, 2016
Bombshell, Jay Roach, 2019
Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Robert Zemeckis, 1988
Midway, Roland Emmerich, 2019
Farinelli, Gerard Corbiau, 1994
The Man in the High Castle (season 4), Frank Spotnitz, 2019
Panfilov’s 28 Men, Andrei Shalopa, 2016
Heaven’s Gate, Michael Cimino, 1980
Mary Queen of Scots, Josie Rourke, 2018
First Man, Damien Chazelle, 2018
Kursk, Thomas Vinterberg, 2019
Joker, Todd Phillips, 2019
Tai-Pan, Daryl Duke, 1986
Night of the Generals, Anatole Litvak, 1967
2019 Books/Articles:
John Ikenberry & Daniel Nexon, “Hegemony Studies 3.0: The Dynamics of Hegemonic Orders,” 2019
James Clavell, Shogun, 1975
Mark Bowden, “Top Military Officers Unload on Trump,” 2019
George Conway, “Trump is Unfit for Office,” 2019
Michael Lind, “John Mearsheimer on International Relations, Great Power Politics, and the Age of Trump,” 2018
Meghan McConaughey, et al. “Beyond Anarchy: Logics of Political Organization, Hierarchy, and International Structure,” 2018
Michael Mastanduno, “Liberal Hegemony, International Order, and US Foreign Policy: A Reconsideration,” 2018
John Ikenberry, “Reflections on After Victory,” 2018
Van Jackson, On the Brink: Trump, Kim, and the Threat of Nuclear War, 2018
Anna Fifield, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un, 2019
Bruce Cumings, North Korea: Another Country, 2004
Sue Mi Terry, “North Korea’s Strategic Goals and Policy towards the United States and South Korea,” 2013
Van Jackson, “Why Not Bomb North Korea? Theories, Risks, and Preventive Strikes,” 2018
Victor Cha & David Kang, Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies, 2003
Jane Mayer, “The Makings of the Fox News White House,” 2019
Tom Clancy, Debt of Honor, 1994
2019 Movies/TV:
George Wallace, John Frankenhimer, 1997
The Post, Steven Spielberg, 2018
The Irishman, Martin Scorsese, 2019
Designated Survivor (season 1), Keifer Sutherland, 2016
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino, 2019
Pumping Iron, George Butler, 1976
Chinatown, Roman Polanski, 1974
The Two Jakes, Jack Nicholson, 1990
Parasite, Joon-Ho Bong, 2019
Tales of Halloween, 2015
Serpico, Sydney Lumet, 1973
Dolores Claiborne, Taylor Hackford, 1995
The Insider, Michael Mann, 1999
Earth vs the Flying Saucers, Fred Sears, 1956
The People vs Larry Flynt, Milos Forman, 1996
Gangs of News York, Martin Scorsese, 2002
The Confession, Costa-Gavras, 1970
Detroit, Kathryn Bigelow, 2017
I, Claudius, Herbert Wise, 1976
Mystery Road, Ivan Sen, 2013
Goldstone, Ivan Sen, 2018
American Gods (season 1), Bryan Fuller, 2017
The Walking Dead (seasons 1 & 2), 2010-11, Robert Kirkman
All the President’s Men, Alan Pakula, 1976
Flight 93, Peter Markle, 2005
Default, Kook-Hee Choi, 2018
The Great Battle, Kwang-Sik Kim, 2018
True Detective (season 1), Nic Pizzolatto, 2014
Straight Outta Compton, Gary Gray, 2015
Chernobyl, Craig Mazin, 2019
Cromwell, Ken Hughes, 1970
Game of Thrones (season 8), D.B. Weiss , 2019
Breaker Morant, Bruce Beresford, 1980
The Purge (season 1), James DeMonaco, 2018
Sophie’s Choice, Alana Pakula, 1982
The Quake, John Andersen, 2018
Murder on the Orient Express, Sydney Lumet, 1974
Escape from L.A., John Carpenter
Manhunter, Michael Mann, 1986
Lord of the Flies, Peter Brook, 1963
Lord of the Flies, Harry Hook, 1989
Notorious, Alfred Hitchcock, 1946
Gotti, Kevin Connolly, 2018
The Quiet American, Philip Noyce, 2003
The Quiet American, Joseph Mankiewicz, 1958
Tokyo Trial, Peter Verhoeff, 2016
Blackkklansman, Spike Lee, 2018
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, Al Gore, 2017
Operation Red Sea, Dante Lam, 2018
Lust, Caution, Ang Lee, 2007
Last Days in Vietnam, Rory Kennedy, 2014
Outland, Peter Hyams, 1981
The Flying Tigers, David Miller, 1942
Vice, Adam McKay, 2018
2018 Books/Articles:
“Donald Trump’s Year of Living Dangerously,” Susan Glasser, 2018
“The End of the Liberal International Order?,” John Ikenberry, 2018
“Why the Liberal International Order will Survive,” John Ikenberry, 2018
“Military Primacy Doesn’t Pay (Nearly As Much As You Think),” Daniel Drezner, 2013
“The Persistent Myth of Lost Hegemony,” Susan Strange, 1987
“Those Who Forget Historiography Are Doomed to Republish It: Empire, Imperialism and Contemporary Debates about American Power,” Paul MacDonald, 2009
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, Barbara Demick, 2009
After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy, Robert Keohane, 1984
Korean Endgame: A Strategy for Reunification and US Disengagement, Selig Harrison, 2002
The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara,1974
“Roy Cohn, the Original Donald Trump,” Frank Rich, 2018
Disclosure, Michael Crichton, 1993
The Korean War, Max Hastings, 1987
The World in Depression, 1929-1939, Charles Kindleberger, 1986
“The Rise of Illiberal Hegemony,” Barry Posen, 2018
Next, Michael Crichton, 2006
“Making China Great Again,” Evan Osnos, 2018
“Want to Strike North Korea? It’s Not Going to Go the Way You Think,” Van Jackson, 2018
“The Myth of a Limited Strike on North Korea,” Abraham Denmark, 2018
“Why China Won’t Rescue North Korea,” Oriana Mastro
“Don’t Speak, Memory,” Nikita Petrov, 2018
“China’s Cover-Up,” Orville Schell, 2018
“China vs. America,” Graham Allison, 2017
“Reputation and Hegemonic Stability: A Game Theoretic Analysis,” James Alt, et al., 1988
2018 TV/Movies:
The World at War, Peter Tiffin, 1973
Blow, Ted Demme, 2001
The Martian Chronicles, Michael Anderson, 1980
The Imitation Game, Morten Tyldum, 2014
The Stanford Prison Experiment, Kyle Alvarez, 2015
Chappaquidick, John Curran, 2018
Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Stefano Sollima, 2018
Solo: A Star Wars Story, Ron Howard, 2018
Citizen Cohn, Frank Pierson, 1992
Sir! No Sir!, David Zeiger, 2006
1987, Joon-Hwan Jang, 2017
Silence, Martin Scorsese, 2017
The Looming Tower, 2018
Hoffa, Danny Devito, 1992
Thirteen, Catherine Hardwick, 2003
A Bridge Too Far, Richard Attenborough, 1977
The Manchurian Candidate, John Frankenheimer, 1962
Ironclads, Delbert Mann, 1990
Why We Fight, Frank Capra, 1942-45
Andersonville, John Frankenheimer, 1996
Star Wars VIII: The Last Jedi, Rian Johnson, 2017
The Eagle Has Landed, John Sturges, 1976
2017 Books/Articles:
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, 1869
The Impossible State: North Korea Past and Future, Victor Cha, 2012
“The Madness of Donald Trump,” Matt Taibbi, 2017
Strategy in the Contemporary World (fifth edition), John Baylis, James Wirtz, Colin Gray, 2016
“Russia’s Perpetual Geopolitics,” Stephen Kotkin, 2017
“Will the Liberal Order Survive?,” Joseph Nye, 2017
“The New Class War,” Michael Lind, 2017
“Samuel Huntington, a Prophet for the Trump Era,” Carlos Lozada, 2017
Saratoga: Turning Point of America’s Revolutionary War, Richard Ketchum, 1997
“When Pat Buchanan Tried to Make America Great Again,” Sam Tanenhaus, 2017
“North Korea and Support to Terrorism: An Evolving History,” Bruce Bechtol, 2010
“Global Korea: The National Security Strategy of the Republic of Korea,” Myung-Bak Lee, 2009
“A New Era of Hope: National Security Strategy,” Geun-Hye Park, 2014
“Development of Countermeasures against North Korean Cyberterrorism through Research Case Studies,” Yong-Joon Lee et al., 2015
“Homegrown Terrorism: South Korea’s Next Challenge against Terrorism,” Steve Sin, 2009
“Asian Security after US Hegemony: Spheres of Influence and the Third Wave of Regional Order,” Van Jackson, 2016
“The Terrorist Threat in the Asia-Pacific: the Current Situation and How It Can be Improved,” Andrew Tan, 2008
“Waging War against Global Terrorism: Assessing the Long-Term Challenges,” James Schear, 2004
“(Preliminary) Political Lessons of the 9-11 War for Korea,” Robert Dujarric, 2002
“Terrorism in South Korea,” Soon-Joo Wang et al., 2003
“North Korea’s Use of Terror and Coercive Diplomacy: Looking for their Circumstantial Variants,” Yongho Kim, 2002
“North Korea and Terrorism: The Yokota Megumi Factor,” Larry Niksch, 2002
“US Grand Strategy Following the George W. Bush Presidency,” David Ellis, 2009
“Trump, Putin, and the New Cold War,” Evan Osnos et al., 2017
“A Counterterrorism Strategy for the Obama Administration,” Bruce Hoffman, 2009
“The War on Terror in American Grand Strategy,” Michael Boyle, 2008
“American Grand Strategy after 9/11: An Assessment,” Stephen Biddle, 2005
“American Grand Strategy in the Age of Terror,” John Ikenberry, 2001
“Why States Won’t Give Nuclear Weapons to Terrorists,” Keir Lieber & Daryl Press, 2013
“How Al-Qaida Ends: The Decline and Demise of Terrorist Groups,” Audrey Cronin, 2006
“Assessing the Dangers of Illicit Networks: Why al-Qaida May Be Less Threatening Than Many Think,” Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni & Calvert Jones, 2008
“Is Islamist Terrorism More Dangerous? An Empirical Study of Group Ideology, Organization, and Group Structure,” James Piazza, 2009
“Mechanisms of Political Radicalization towards Terrorism,” Clark McCauley & Sophia Moskalenko, 2008
“Why Terrorism does Not Work,” Max Abrahms, 2006
“Terror as Strategy and Relational Process,” Charles Tilly, 2005
“Frameworks for Conceptualizing Terrorism,” Alex Schmid, 2004
“Terror, Terrorism, Terrorists,” Charles Tilly, 2004
“What Trump is Throwing Out the Window,” Jessica Mathews, 2017
“Behind the Curve: Globalization and International Terrorism,” Audrey Cronin, 2002
“How to Build an Autocracy,” David Frum, 2017
“The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism,” Robert Pape, 2003
“The Struggle against Terrorism: Grand Strategy, Strategy, and Tactics,” Barry Posen, 2001
“Market Civilization and Its Clash with Terror,” Michael Mousseau, 2002
“Religious Terrorism in Japan: The Fatal Appeal of Aum Shinrikyo,” Daniel Metraux, 1995
“Rethinking Terrorism and Counterterrorism since 9/11,” Bruce Hoffman, 2002
“Emotional Beliefs,” John Mercer, 2010
“Sex and the Shaheed: Insights from the Life Sciences on Islamic Suicide Terrorism,” Bradley Thayer & Valerie Hudson, 2010
“Nonsate Actors and the Diffusion of Innovations: The Case of Suicide Terrorism,” Michael Horowitz, 2010
“The Terrorism Delusion: America’s Overwrought Response to September 11,” John Mueller and Mark Stewart, 2012
“A Dynamic Model of Suicide Terrorism and Political Mobilization,” Daniel Geller & Alvin Saperstein, 2014
“Terrorism and Civil War: A Spatial and Temporal Approach to a Conceptual Problem,” Michael Findley & Joseph Young, 2012
“God vs. Westphalia: Radical Islamist Movements and the Battle for Organizing the World,” Barak Mendelsohn, 2012
“What Truman can Teach Trump,” Walter Russell Mead, 2017
“Strategies of Terrorism,” Andrew Kydd & Barbara Walter, 2006
“Do Terrorists Win? Rebels’ Use of Terrorism and Civil War Outcomes,” Virginia Fortna, 2015
“Should I Stay or Should I Go? Explaining Variation in Western Jihadists’ Choice between Domestic and Foreign Fighting,” Thomas Hegghammmer, 2013
“Killing Civilians or Holding Territory? How to Think about Terrorism,” Victor Asal, et al. 2012
Applied Regression: An Introduction, second edition, Colin Lewis-Beck & Michael Lewis-Beck, 2015
2017 Films/TV:
The Man in the High Castle (season 2), Frank Spotznitz, 2016
Il Divo, Paolo Sorrentino, 2009
Blade Runner 2049, Denis Villeneuve, 2017
The Handmaid’s Tale (season 1), Daniel Wilson, 2017
Battleship Island, Seung-Wan Ryoo, 2017
Yamato, Junya Sato, 2005
Geostorm, Dean Devlin, 2017
War and Peace, Tom Harper, 2016
The Vietnam War, Ken Burns, 2017
The China Syndrome, James Bridges, 1979
USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage, Mario van Peebles, 2016
World War III, David Greene, 1982
The Hindenburg, Robert Wise, 1975
Duck, You Sucker, Sergio Leone, 1972
Wizard of Lies, Barry Levinson, 2017
The Exception, David Leveaux, 2017
RKO 281, Benjamin Ross, 1999
Homeland (season 6), Alex Gansa, 2017
Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan, 2017
War for the Planet of the Apes, Matt Reeves, 2017
Better Call Saul (season 3), Vince Gilligan, 2017
The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz, Brian Knappenberger, 2014
24, (season 8, Live Another Day, Legacy), Joel Surnow, 2010, 2014, 2017
The Great Wall, Yimou Zhang, 2016
Alien: Covenant, Ridley Scott, 2017
Ghost in the Shell, Rupert Sanders, 2017
The Crown (season 1), Peter Morgan, 2016
Steve Jobs, Danny Boyle, 2015
House of Cards (season 5), David Fincher, 2017
War Machine, David Michod, 2017
Deepwater Horizon, Peter Berg, 2016
Hell or High Water, David Mackenzie, 2016
Arrival, Denis Villeneuve, 2016
A Brief History of Time, Errol Morris, 1992
Enemy, Denis Villeneuve, 2014
The Accountant, Gavin O’Connor, 2016
Star Trek (season 3), Gene Rodenberry, 1968
Star Trek: The Next Generation (seasons 1-4), Gene Rodenberry, 1987-1990
The Civil War, Ken Burns, 1992
Planet Earth II, David Attenborough, 2016
Game of Thrones (season 7), D.B. Weiss , 2017
Star Wars: Rebels (season 3), Dave Filoni, 2016-17
2016, Concerts:
Beethoven, Seventh Symphony
Beethoven, Third Symphony
Beethoven, Fourth Symphony
Beethoven, Fifth Piano Concerto
Brahms, Second Symphony
Bruch, Kol Nidrei
Bruch, Violin Concerto # 1
Faure, Requiem
Glinka, Ruslan and Lyudmila Overture
Gounod, Messe Solennelle
Grieg, Piano Concerto
Mendelssohn, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Overture
Mozart, Flute Concerto # 2
Mozart, Don Giovanni Overture
Mozart, Marriage of Figaro Overture
Mozart, Haffner Symphony
Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition
Ravel, Mother Goose
Schubert, Third Symphony
Schumann, First Symphony
Shostakovitch, First Piano Concerto
Tchaikovsky, Fourth Symphony
Tchaikovsky, Fifth Symphony
Tchaikovsky, Cappricio Italien Overture
Wagner, Meistersinger Overture
2016, Books/Articles:
Jihad vs McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism are Reshaping the World, Benjamin Barber, 1995
“When Nationalism Strikes Back,” Michael Lind, 2016
“Too Much Law, and Too Little Infrastructure,” Francis Fukuyama, 2016
“Populism is Not Fascism,” Sheri Berman, 2016
“Brave New War,” Peter Pomerantsev, 2015
“War with China: Thinking Through the Unthinkable,” David Gompert, Astrid Cevallos, Cristina Garafalo, 2016
The Pentagon’s New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Barnett, 2004
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Samuel Huntington, 1996
“The Dark History of Donald Trump’s Right-Wing Revolt,” Timothy Shenk, 2016
“A Cure for Trumpism,” Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam, 2016
“Inside the Fraternity of Haters and Losers who Drove Donald Trump to the GOP Nomination,” McKay Coppins, 2016
“Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s…,” Tom Wolfe, 1970
“The Republican Party’s White Strategy,” Peter Beinart, 2016
“Reader, She Married Him – Alas,” Theodore Dalrymple, 1995
“When and Why Nationalism Beats Globalism,” Jonathan Haidt, 2016
“The Case for Offshore Balancing,” Stephen Walt & John Mearsheimer, 2016
“The Imperialism of Free Trade,” John Gallagher & Ronald Robinson, 1953
“Britain’s Point of No Return,” Matthias Matthijs, 2016
“Please Leave,” Camille Pecastaing, 2016
“The Truth about Trade,” Douglas Irwin, 2016
“The End of the Old Israel,” Aluf Benn, 2016
“The Normative Foundations of Hegemony and the Coming Challenge to American Hegemony,” Charles Kupchan, 2014
“American Political Decay or Renewal?,” Francis Fukuyama, 2016
“The Once and Future Superpower,” Stephen Brooks and William Wohlforth, 2016
“New World Order,” Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, and Michael Spence, 2016
“Russia’s Perpetual Geopolitics,” Stephen Kotkin, 2016
“Eurasia’s Coming Anarchy,” Robert Kaplan, 2016
“Eight Causes of Trumpism,” Norm Ornstein, 2016
“America has Never been so Ripe for Tyranny,” Andrew Sullivan, 2016
“Lights Out for the Putin Regime,” Alexander Motyl, 2016
“The Return of the Middle American Radical,” John Judis, 2015
“From Household to Nation: The Middle American Populism of Pat Buchanan,” Samuel Francis, 1996
“Unmaking England,” Benjamin Schwarz, 2016
“Not a very P.C. Thing to Say,” Jonathan Chait, 2015
“The Corporate Takeover of Economic Discourse in Korea,” Bong-Hyun Lee, 2016
“The Triumph of Email,” Adrienne LaFrance, 2016
“The Long History of Leading from Behind,” Stephen Sestanovich, 2016
“What Went Wrong: Assessing the Obama Legacy,” David Bromwich, 2015
“The Neoliberal Arts,” William Deresiewicz, 2015
“The Return of the 1920s,” Richard Yeselson, 2015
2016, Films/TV:
Almost Famous, Cameron Crowe, 2000
Sound of Music, Robert Wise, 1965
Operation Chromite, John Lee, 2016
Star Wars: Rogue One, Gareth Edwards, 2016
Inferno, Ron Howard, 2016
Where to Invade Next, Michael Moore, 2016
Krampus, Micahel Dougherty, 2015
Star Trek (seasons 1-2), Gene Rodenberry, 1966-67
Hamburger Hill, John Irvin, 1987
Under the Sun, Vitaly Manskiy, 2016
The Strain (season 3), Guillermo del Toro, 2016
Westworld (season 1), Jonathan Nolan, 2016
Skyjacked, John Guillerman, 2972
Boardwalk Empire (seasons 2-5), Terence Winter, 2011-2014
The Green Room, Jeremy Saulnier, 2016
Gojira, Inoshiro Honda, 1956
Night Train to Munich, Carol Reed, 1940
Amerigeddon, Mike Norris, 2016
Two-Minute Warning, Larry Peerce, 1976
Before Midnight, Richard Linklater, 2013
Mississippi Burning, Alan Parker, 1988
Sunset Boulevard, Billy Wilder, 1950
Pi, Darren Aronofsky, 1998
Ordinary People, Robert Redford, 1980
All the Way, Jay Roach, 2016
The Great McGinty, Preston Sturges, 1940
Chimes at Midnight, Orson Welles, 1965
Executive Action, David Milller, 1973
United Red Army, Koji Wakamatsu, 2011
The Threepenny Opera, Georg Pabst, 1931
City of God, Fernando Meirelles, 2003
11.22.63, J.J. Abrams, 2016
The Panic in Needle Park, Jerry Schatzberg, 1971
The President’s Last Bang, Sang-Soo Lim, 2005
Gods and Generals, Ronald Maxwell, 2003
Glenngarry Glen Ross, James Foley, 1992
A War, Tobias Lindholm, 2016
A Hijacking, Tobias Lindholm, 2013
Empire of the Sun, Steven Spielberg, 1987
1941, Steven Spielberg, 1979
Triumph of the Will, Leni Riefenstahl, 1934
Flowers of War, Yimou Zhang, 2011
Boyhood, Richard Linklater, 2014
Heart of Darkness, Nicolas Roeg, 1994
Money Monster, Jodie Foster, 2016
Fort Apache, the Bronx, Daniel Petrie, 1981
Coffy, Jack Hill, 1973
Foxy Brown, Jack Hill, 1974
Rabin – the Last Day, Amos Gitai, 2016
America: Imagine a World Without Her, Dinesh D’Souza, 2014
The Beginning of the Great Revival, Jianxin Huang, 2011
Attack on Leningrad, Aleksandr Buravsky, 2011
1944, Elmo Nüganen, 2014
Night and Fog, Alain Resnais, 1955
Rio Bravo, Howard Hawks, 1959
Meteor, Ronald Neame, 1979
The Purge: Election Year, James DeMonaco, 2016
Eye in the Sky, Gavin Hood, 2016
Occupied (season 1), Karianne Lung, 2015
Peppermint Candy, Chang-Dong Lee, 1999
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Chan-Wook Park , 2005
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Chan-Wook Park, 2002
The Housemaid, Ki-Young Kim, 1960
The Housemaid, Sang-Soo Im, 2011
Secret Sunshine, Chang-Dong- Lee, 2010
Colors, Dennis Hopper, 1988
Chungking Express, Kar-Wai Won, 1994
Game of Thrones (season 6), David Benioff, 2016
Burnt by the Sun, Nikita Mikhalkov, 1994
Burnt by the Sun 2, Nikita Mikhalkov, 2010
The Battle of Sevastopol, Sergeiy Mokritskiy, 2015
Sans Soleil, Chris Marker, 1983
Spies, Fritz Lang, 1928
Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, Fritz Lang, 1922
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, Fritz Lang, 1933
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse, Fritz Lang, 1960
M, Fritz Lang, 1931
The Nibelungs, Fritz Lang, 1924
Faust, F.W. Murnau, 1926
Baraka, Ron Fricke, 1993
Samsara, Ron Fricke, 2012
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, Michael Bay, 2016
The Battle of Britain, Guy Hamilton, 1969
Tora, Tora, Tora, Richard Fleischer, 1970
The Holcroft Covenant, John Frankenheimer, 1985
Assassination, Dong-Hoon Choi, 2015
The Blues Brothers, John Landis, 1980
The Blues Brothers 2000, John Landis, 1997
Northern Limit Line, Hak-Soon Kim, 2015
This is Spinal Tap, Rob Reiner, 1984
Better Call Saul (season 2), Vince Gilligan, 2016
London Has Fallen, Babak Najafi, 2016
Homeland (season 5), David Semel, 2015
MASH, Robert Altman, 1970
Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Richard Brooks, 1977
King Rat, Bryan Forbes, 1965
Tai-Pan, Daryl Duke, 1986
Amarcord, Federico Fellini, 1974
Fruitvale Station, Ryan Coogler, 2013
The Long Good Friday, John Mackenzie, 1982
The Man Who Would Be King, John Huston, 1975
The Revenant, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, 2015
Dennis Rodman’s Big Bang in Pyongyang, Colin Offland, 2015
The Big Short, Adam McKay, 2015
House of Cards (seasons 3-4), Beau Willimon, 2015-16
The Wave, Roar Uthaug, 2015
Baraka, Ron Fricke, 2993
Beasts of No Nation, Cary Fukunaga, 2015
Khartoum, Eliot Elisofon, 1966
Days of Being Wild, Wong Kar-Wai, 1990
In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-Wai, 2001
2046, Wong Kar-Wai, 2005
The Man in the High Castle (season 1), Frank Spotnitz, 2015
Omagh, Paul Greengrass, 2004
Rome, Open City, Robert Rossellini, 1946
Paisan, Roberto Rossellini, 1948
Germany, Year Zero, Roberto Rossellini, 1949
Blue is the Warmest Color, Abdel Kechiche, 2013
In the Realm of the Senses, Nagisa Oshima, 1976
Slacker Uprising, Michael Moore, 2008
Camp X-Ray, Peter Sattler, 2014
Star Wars: Rebels (seasons 1-2), David Filoni, 2014-16
Sicario, Denis Villeneuve,2015
Bone Tomahawk, Craig Zahler, 2015
A.D., Stuart Cooper, 1985
The Banquet, Feng Xiaogang, 2006
2015
2015, books/articles:
“The Tragedy of the American Military,” James Fallow, 2015
“The Great Republican Revolt,” David Frum, 2015
“Why America is Moving Left,” Peter Beinart, 2015
“Contain ISIS,” Barry Posen, 2015
“Migrant Crisis? Europe Hasn’t Seen Anything Yet,” Douglas Murray, 2015
“Realists as Optimists: Cooperation as Self-Help,” Charles Glaser, 1994
“Illusions of Empire: Defining the New American Order,” John Ikenberry, 2004
“The American Tributary System,” Yuen Foong Khong, 2013
“Legitimating Power: The Domestic Politics of US Hierarchy,” David Lake, 2013
Security Communities, Emanuel Adler and Michael Barnett, eds., 1998
“Inside the GOP Clown Car,” Matt Taibi, 2015
“Analytical Eclecticism in the Study of World Politics,” Rudra Sil & Peter Katzenstein, 2010
“Korean Courage to Deal with Japan,” Leif-Eric Easley, 2014
“America: Addicted to War, Afraid of Peace,” Gregory Daddis, 2015
“Dear President Bush,” Andrew Sullivan, 2009
“China’s Place in US Foreign Policy,” Karl Eikenberry, 2015
“Whatever It Takes: The Politics of the Man Behind ’24’,” Jane Mayer, 2007
“Unhappy Days for America,” Nicholas Lemann, 2015
“Broken Windows,” James Q. Wilson & George Kelling, 1982
“A New Interpretation of Korea-Japan Relations: ‘Rights Revolution’ of Sex Slaves and Forced Laborers in the Courtroom,” Ja-hyun Chun and Youcheer Kim, 2014
“Democracy and Diversionary Incentives in Japan–South Korea Disputes,” Koji Kagotani, Kan Kimura, & Jeffrey R. Weber, 2014
“Memory Politics and Ontological Security in Sino-Japanese Relations,” Karl Gustafsson, 2014
“Memorializing Comfort Women: Memory and Human Rights in Korea-Japan Relations,” Min-Young Kim, 2014
“Historical Animosity is What States Make of It : The Role of Morality and Realism in Korea-Japan Relations,” Tae-Ryong Yoon, 2011
“Reactive Nationalism and South Korea’s Foreign Policy on China and Japan: A Comparative Analysis,” Chung-In Moon & Chun-Fu Li, 2010
“The Role of Political Leadership in the Formation of Korea-Japan Relations in the Post–Cold War Era,” Hosup Kim, 2011
“North Korea’s State-Loyalty Advantage,” B. R. Myers, 2011
“Where are They? Why I Hope the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Finds Nothing,” Nick Bostrum, 2008
“Reconciling Colonial Memories in Korea and Japan,” David Hundt and Roland Bleiker, 2007
“International Reconciliation in the Postwar Era, 1945-2005: A Comparative Study of Japan-ROK and Franco German Relations,” Yangmo Ku, 2008
“Historical beliefs and the Perception of Threat in Northeast Asia: Colonialism, the Tributary System, and China–Japan–Korea relations in the Twenty-First Century,” Peter Gries et al., 2008
“Creating the National Other: Opposing Images of Nationalism in South and North Korean Education,” Dennis Hart, 1999
“Hate, Power, and Identity in Japan–Korea Security: Towards a Synthetic Material-Ideational Analytical Framework,” Victor Cha, 2000
“The Politics of Identity: History, Nationalism, and the Prospect for Peace in Post-Cold War East Asia,” Sheila Jager, 2007
“What ISIS Really Wants,” Graeme Wood, 2015
“Overcoming the Negative Legacy of the Past: Why Europe is a Positive Example for East Asia,” Andrew Hovart, 2004
“The Politics of the Dokdo Issue,” Sung-Jae Choi, 2005
“Unraveling the Japan-South Korea ‘Virtual Alliance’: Populism and Historical Revisionism in the Face of Conflicting Regional Strategies,” Gilbert Rozman & Shin-Wha Lee, 2006
“How to Deter China,” Andrew Krepinevich, 2015
“Is China Next?,” Francis Fukuyama, 2011
“The Break-Up,” John Judis, 2015
“Abandonment, Entrapment, and Neoclassical Realism in Asia: The United States, Japan, and Korea,” Victor Cha, 2000
“The Decline of International Studies,” Charles King, 2015
“A World without Work,” Derek Thompson, 2015
“Showa History, Rising Nationalism, and the Abe Government,” Herbert Bix, 2015
2015, films/TV
Breaking Bad (seasons 3-5), Vince Gilligan, 2010-13
The Gathering Storm, Richard Loncraine, 2002
The Strain (season 2), Guillermo Del Toro, 2015
Into the Storm, Thaddeus O’Sullivan, 2008
Baadasssss!, Mario Van Peebles, 2003
Four Months, Three Weeks, and Two Days, Cristian Mungiu, 2007
Shaka Zulu, William Faure, 1986
Black Mass, Scott Cooper, 2015
The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, Morgan Spurlock, 2011
The Kill Team, Dan Krauss, 2014
Video Games: The Movie, Jeremy Snead, 2014
Repo Man, Alex Cox, 1984
House of Cards (seasons 1 – 2), Beau Willimon, 2013-14
Rewind This!, Josh Johnson, 2013
Dragon Blade, Daniel Lee, 2015
Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens, JJ Abrahms, 2015
The 300 Spartans, Rudolph Mate, 1962
The Martian, Ridley Scott, 2015
Strange Days, Kathryn Bigelow, 1995
Amerika, Donald Wyre, 1987
Better Call Saul (season 1), Vince Gilligan, 2015
The Purge, James DeMonaco, 2013
The Purge: Anarchy, James DeMonaco, 2014
Mad Max: Fury Road, George Miller, 2015
Narc, Joe Carnahan, 2002
The Robe, Henry Koster, 1953
1900, Bernardo Bertolucci, 1976
Black Rain, Ridley Scott, 1989
Chappie, Neill Blomkamp, 2015
Nymphomaniac, Lars von Trier, 2014
American Sniper, Clint Eastwood, 2015
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, Robert Parrish, 1969
The Land that Time Forgot, Kevin Connor, 1975
This Island Earth, Jack Arnold, 1955
The Admiral: Roaring Currents, Han-Min Kim, 2014
Black Sunday, John Frankenheimer, 1977
The Wire (seasons 4 & 5), David Simon, 2006, 2008
Unforgiven, Clint Eastwood, 1992
24 (seasons 6-7), Kiefer Sutherland, 2007-09
Terminator: Genisys, Alan Taylor, 2015
Citizenfour, Laura Poitras, 2014
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, Melvin van Peebles, 1971
Star Wars: Clone Wars (seasons 3-6), David Filoni, 2010-14
Thief, Michael Mann, 1981
Rec 4, Jaume Balaguero, 2014
The Bridge, Bernhard Wicki, 1959
A Christmas Horror Story, Grant Harvey, Steven Hoban, & Brett Sullivan, 2015
My Dinner with Andre, Louis Malle, 1981
Homeland (seasons 3 & 4), David Semel, 2013-14
Bridge of Spies, Steven Spielberg, 2015
Hard Boiled, John Woo, 1992
Bullet in the Head, John Woo, 1990
Downton Abbey (seasons 4 – 6), Julian Fellowes, 2013-15
2014
2014, books/articles:
“Rising China and the Evolution of China-North Korea Relations,” Hochul Lee, 2014
“Chinese Perspectives on North Korea and Unification,” Sunny Lee, 2013
“China’s Position on Korean Unification and ROK-PRC Relations,” Heung-Kyu Kim, 2014
“A Korea Whole and Free,” Sue Mi Terry, 2014
The End of the American World Order, Amitav Acharya, 2014
“China’s Impact on Korean Peninsula Unification and Some Questions for the Senate,” US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Minority (Republican) Staff, 2012
“China on Korean Reunification: Spoiler, Beneficiary, or Something in
Between?,” Greogory Macris, 2013
“The Eternal Collapse of Russia,” Paul Starobin, 2014
“The Illusion of Chinese Weakness,” Clark Barrett, 2014
“Limited War is Back,” Jakub Grygiel & Weiss Mitchell, 2014
“Shaping Globalization,” Martin Wolf, 2014
“National Role Conceptions in the ‘Global Korea’ Foreign Policy Strategy,” Heike Hermanns, 2013
“Liberalism’s Beleaguered Victory,” Abram Shulsky, 2014
“What Does North Korea Want from China? Understanding Pyongyang’s Policy Priorities toward Beijing,” Sukhoon Hong, 2014
Political Community and the North Atlantic Area, Karl Deutsch et al., 1957
“Japan in 2013: Abenomics and Abegeopolitics,” Takashi Inogouchi, 2014
“America in Decay: The Sources of Political Dysfunction,” Francis Fukuyama, 2014
“South Korea in 2013: Meeting New Challenges with the Old Guard,” Yul Sohn & Won-Taek Kang, 2014
“China and the Korean Peninsula: Playing for the Long-Term,” David Shambaugh, 2003
“China’s Policy toward (South) Korea: Objectives of and Obstacles to the Strategic Partnership,” Heeok Lee, 2010
“The RoK’s China Policy under Park Geun-Hye: A Model of RoK-PRC Relations,” Jae-ho Hwang, 2014
“China-North Korea Relations,” Congressional Research Service, 2010
“China’s North Korea Policy,” Bates Gill, 2011
“Just How Likely is Another World War?,” Graham Allison, 2014
“Effects-Based Operations: Change in the Nature of Warfare,” David Deptula, 2001
“Five Ways the Soviet Union Could have Won the Cold War,” Tom Nichols, 2014
“Armies of Snow and Armies of Sand: The Impact of Soviet Military Doctrine on Arab Militaries,” Michael Eisenstadt and Kenneth Pollack, 2001
“Should Security Studies Survive?,” Richard Betts, 1997
“The End of American Exceptionalism,” Peter Beinart, 2014
“The Sinic World in Perspective,” Edwin Reischauer, 1974
“The Illusion of Chinese Power,” David Shambaugh, 2014
“Pivot Problems: What Washington Should Concede in Asia,” Jennifer Lind, 2014
“America’s Ultimate Strategy in a Clash with China,” TX Hammes & RD Hooker, 2014
“Superpowers Don’t Get to Retire,” Robert Kagan, 2014
“The Fifty-First State?,” James Fallows, 2002
“Bush’s Lost Year,” James Fallows, 2002
“Blind into Baghdad,” James Fallows, 2004
“To the Precinct Station: How Theory Meet Practice…and Drove it Crazy,” Thomas Frank, 2012
“Kludge-ocracy: The American Way of Policy,” Steven Teles, 2012
“The Case for American Nationalism,” Michael Lind, 2014
“The Myth of America’s Triumph,” Michael Lind, 2014
The Empire Proejct: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830-1970, John Darwin, 2009
“‘The Empire Will Compensate You’: The Structural Dynamics of the U.S. Overseas Basing Network,” Daniel Nexon and Alexander Cooley, 2013
After Anarchy: Legitimacy and Power in the United Nations Security Council, Ian Hurd, 2007
“How China and America See Each Other,” Mixin Pei, 2014
Imperial Bedrooms, Bret Easton Ellis, 2010
“Why the Tea Party’s Hold Persists,” Theda Skocpol, 2014
Legitimacy in International Society, Ian Clark, 2005
“America Unhinged,” John Mearsheimer, 2014
2014, films/TV:
The World According to Dick Cheney, RJ Cutler, 2013
Noble House, James Clavell, 1988
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Peter Jackson, 2014
The Interview, Seth Rogan, 2014
Holiday Inn, Mark Sandrich, 1942
City Lights, Charlie Chaplin, 1931
Spartacus, Steven DeKinght, 2010-13
When Worlds Collide, Rudolph Mate, 1951
Forbidden Planet, Fred Wilcox, 1956
Exodus: God and Kings, Ridley Scott, 2014
Mr. Arkadin, Orson Welles, 1962
Fury, David Ayer, 2014
The Strain (season 1), Guillermo Del Toro, 2014
Typhoon, Kyung-Taek Kwak, 2005
Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin, 2012
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, David Hand, 1937
Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance, Godfrey Reggio, 1983
Emperor, Peter Webber, 2013
R2B: Return to Base, Dong-Won Kim, 2012
Le Samourai, Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967
Le Cercle Rouge, Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970
Game of Thrones, (seasons 4 & 5), David Benioff, 2014-15
Recount, Jay Roach, 2008
The Newsroom (season 1), Aaron Sorkin, 2012
Boardwalk Empire (season 1), Terence Winter, 2010
Ghost in the Shell 2.0, Mamoru Oshi, 1996/2008
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, Mamoru Oshi, 2004
Twelve O’Clock High, Henry King, 1949
Known Unknowns, Errol Morris, 2014
Comandante, Oliver Stone, 2003
Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome, Jonas Pate, 2012
Stalingrad, Fyodor Bondarchuk, 2014
Klute, Alan Pakula, 1971
Heartbreak Ridge, Clint Eastwood, 1986
Homeland (season 2), David Semel, 2012
Navy Seals, Lewis Teague, 1990
The Devils, Ken Russell, 1971
Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo, 2001
JSA: Joint Security Area, Chan-Wook Park, 2000
Shiri, Je-Gyu Kang, 1999
City Hall, Harold Becker, 1996
Cloud Atlas, Wachowski Brothers, 2012
Eichmann, Robert Young, 2007
Katyn, Andrzej Wajda, 2007
Caprica (season 1), Ronald Moore, 2010
Spring Breakers, Harmony Korrine, 2013
Lone Survivor, Peter Berg, 2013
47 Ronin, Carl Rinsch, 2013
Seal Team 6: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden, John Stockwell, 2012
Carlos, Olivier Assayas, 2010
The Fall of the Roman Empire, Anthony Mann, 1964
Shogun, Jerry London, 1980
The Stand, Mick Garris, 1994
Monsters, Gareth Evans, 2010
Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, George Lucas, 1992-93
Parkland, Peter Landesman, 2013
Fantastic Voyage, Richard Fleischer, 1966
Parallax View, Alan Pakula, 1974
Zulu Dawn, Douglas Hickox, 1979
Kill the Irishman, Jonathan Hensleigh, 2011
Zulu Dawn, Douglas Hickox, 1979
League of Denial, Frontline, 2013
Breaking Bad (season 2), Vince Gilligan, 2009
Snowpiercer, Joon-hu Bong, 2013
American Hustle, David O’Russell, 2013
Mad Men (season 1), Matthew Weiner, 2007
The Boondock Saints I & II, Troy Duffy, 1999, 2009
The Monuments Men, George Clooney, 2013
Rescue Dawn, Werner Herzong, 2006
Wolf of Wall Street, Martin Scorsese, 2013
12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen, 2013
Untold History of the United States, Oliver Stone, 2012
300: Rise of an Empire, Noam Murro, 2014
The Wire, (season 2 & 3), David Simon, 2003, 2004
Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy, Niels Arden Oplev, 2009
Downton Abbey, (seasons 2 & 3), Julian Fellowes, 2012, 2012
Twin Peaks, David Lynch, 1990-91
Twin Peaks – Fire Walk with Me, David Lynch, 1992
2013
2013, books/articles:
After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order After Major Wars, John Ikenberry, 2000
The Once and Future King, T. H. White, 1958
“The Rise of the New New Left,” Peter Beinart, 2013
State of Fear, Michael Crichton, 2004
“Two-State Illusion,” Ian Lustick, 2013
“Restarting the Six-Party Talks: Russia’s Dilemmas and Current Perspectives,” Stephen Blank and Younkyoo Kim, 2012
“The Failed Grand Strategy in the Middle East,” Walter Russell Mead, 2013
“Facing the Crucible: Australia, the ROK, and Cooperation in Asia,” William Tow and Ajin Choi, 2011
“Asia’s Looming Power Shift,” Rajan Menon, 2013
“Socialization and Hegemonic Power,” John Ikenberry and Charles Kupchan, 1990
Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order, John Ikenberry, 2012
“Bad Reputation,” Jonathan Mercer, 2013
“Congressional Abdication,” Jim Webb, 2013
The Sovereign State and Its Competitors: An Analysis of Systems Change, Hendrik Spruyt, 1994
“The Mythical Liberal Order,” Naazneen Barma, Ely Ratner, and Steven Weber, 2013
“A Wasted Crisis? Why the Democrats did so little to change Wall Street,” Paul Starr, 2013
“Europe: Strategic Drifter,” Jakub Grygiel, 2013
The European Union and South Korea: The Legal Framework for
Strengthening Trade, Economic, and Political Relations, ed. James Harrison, 2013
“Why Middle East Monarchies Survive,” Robert Kaplan, 2013
“Egypt’s Entrenched Military,” Daniel Kurtzer, 2013
“Israel’s Fraying Image,” Jacob Heilbrunn, 2013
Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences, eds. James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, 2003
“Challenges for Korean Unification Planning,” Victor Cha & David Kang, 2011
“The Study of Critical Junctures: Theory, Narrative, and Counterfactuals in Historical Institutionalism,” Giovanni Capoccia and Daniel Kelemen, 2007
“Time Will Tell? Temporality and the Analysis of Causal Mechanisms and Processes,” Anna Gryzmala-Busse, 2011
“The Logic of Historical Explanation in the Social Sciences,” James Mahoney, Erin Kimball, and Kendra Koivu, 2009
“Path Dependence in Historical Sociology,” James Mahoney, 2000
“The Next Korean War,” Keir Lieber & Daryl Press, 2013
North Korea in Transition: Politics, Economy, Society, Scott Snyder and Kyung-Ae Park, 2012
“Narrative, Event-Structure Analysis, and Causal Interpretation in Historical Sociology,” Larry Griffin, 1993
“Israel’s Warlords,” Aluff Benn, 2013
“The Putin Doctrine,” Leon Aron, 2013
“Building Asia Pacific Regional Architecture: The Challenge of Hybrid Regionalism,” Richard Hu, 2009
“The End of the Two-State Solution,” Ben Birbaum, 2013
“Red White,” Ben Steil, 2013
“Regional Multilateralism in Asia and the Korean Question,” Won-hyuk Kim, 2009
“South Korean and Taiwanese Development and the New Institutional Economics,” David Kang, 1995
“International Relations Theory and the Second Korean War,” David Kang, 2003
“How Bush Bungled Asia: Militarism, Economic Indifference and Unilateralism have weakened the United States across Asia,” TJ Pempel, 2008
“The United States and Asia after Bush,” Michael Green, 2008, and “A Response to Michael Green,” TJ Pempel, 2008
“Don’t Come Home, America: The Case against Retrenchment,” Stephen Brooks, John Ikenberry & William Wohlforth, 2013
“Stability and Change in US Foreign Policy,” Barry Posen, 2007
“Pull Back,” Barry Posen, 2013
“The US-Japan Alliance: Anchoring Stability in Asia,” Joseph Nye & Richard Armitage
“The Advantages of an Assertive China,” Thomas Christensen, 2011
“Air-Sea Battle,” Norton Schwartz and Jonathan Greenert, 2012
AirSea Battle: A Point-of-Departure Operational Concept, Jan van Tol, et al., 2010
“Posing Problems without Catching Up: China’s Rise and Challenges for U.S. Security Policy,” Thomas Christensen, 2001
“China, the U.S.-Japan Alliance, and the Security Dilemma In East Asia,” Thomas Christensen, 1999
“Spirals, Security, and Stability in East Asia,” Jennifer Lind and Thomas Christensen, 2000
“Command of the Commons: The Military Foundation of U.S. Hegemony,” Barry Posen, 2003
“Fostering Stability or Creating a Monster? The Rise of China and U.S. Policy toward East Asia,” Thomas Christensen, 2006
“East Asia’s Economic Success: Conflicting Perspectives, Partial Insights, Shaky Evidence,” Robert Wade, 1992
“Democratic Partnership in Asia,” Daneil Twining, 2010
“The Myth of Asia’s Miracle,” Paul Krugman, 1994
“The Future of U.S.-China Relations: Is Conflict Inevitable?,” Aaron Friedberg, 2005
“China Engages Asia? Caveat Lector,” Nicholas Khoo, Michael Smith, and David Shambaugh, 2005
“Is China a Status Quo Power?,” A. I. Johnston, 2003
“American Political Methodology Debate: Where is the Battlefield?,” Bernhard Kittel, 2005, and “Clarifying Comparative-Historical Methodology,” James Mahoney, 2005
“Why Republicans are the Party of White People,” Sam Tanenhaus, 2013
“H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable on Richard K. Betts. American Force: Dangers, Delusions, and Dilemmas in National Security (2012),” Loch Johnson, et al., 2012
“How We would Fight China,” Robert Kaplan, 2005
“Hegemon on the Horizon? China’s Threat to East Asian Security,” Denny Roy, 1994
“Extremism in Defense of Liberty” and “Upon Further Review: A CRB discussion of Political Extremism,” William Vogeli, et al., 2012-13
“After KKV: The New Methodology of Qualitative Research,” James Mahoney, 2010
“Symposium: Alexander George and Andrew Bennett’s Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences (2005),” Jack Levy, et al., 2006
“Case Studies and the Statistical Worldview: Review of King, Keohane, and Verba’s Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research (1994),” Timothy McKeown, 1999
“H-Diplo Roundtable on Meredith H. Lair’s Armed with Abundance: Consumerism & Soldiering in the Vietnam War (2011),” Michael Allen, et al., 2012
“Preparing for Sudden Change in North Korea,” Paul Stares & Joel Wit, 2009
“The Revisionist Imperative: Rethinking Twentieth Century Wars,” Andrew Bacevich, 2012
“Area Studies, Comparative Politics and the Role of Cross-Regional Small-n Comparison,” Rundra Sil, 2009
“Symposium: Case Selection, Case Studies, and Causal Inference,” David Collier, et al., 2008
“Making Use of the Past: Time Periods as Cases to Compare and as Sequences of Problem Solving,” Jeffrey Haydu, 1998
“H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable on Charles Kupchan’s How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace (2012),” Jeffrey Taliaferro, et al, 2012
“H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable on Boaz Atzili, Good Fences, Bad Neighbors: Border Fixity and International Conflict (2012),” Stephen van Evera, et al. 2012
“The Contribution of Area Studies,” Stephen Hanson, 2008
“Pragmatic Guide to Qualitative Historial Analysis in the Study of International Relations,” Cameron Thies, 2002
“Rebooting Republican Foreign Policy,” Daniel Drezner, 2013
“Case Study Methods in International Politcal Economy,” John Odell, 2001
2013, films/TV:
The Impossible, Juan Antonio Bayona, 2012
Miracle on 34th Street, George Seaton, 1947
Game of Thrones, (season 3), David Benioff, 2013
White Christmas, Bing Crosby, 1954
Downton Abbey (season 1), Julian Fellowes, 2010
The Wire (season 1), David Simon, 2002
Breaking Bad (season 1), Vince Gilligan, 2008
Captain Phillips, Paul Greengrass, 2013
The Death of a President, Gabriel Range, 2006
Promised Land, Gus Van Sant, 2012
A Christmas Tale, Arnaud Desplechin, 2008
The Canyons, Paul Schrader, 2013
Trance, Danny Boyle, 2013
Threads, Mick Jackson, 1985
Trick ‘r Treat, Michael Dougherty, 2006
Winter War, Pekka Parikka, 1989
Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg, 2012
Ninth Company, Fyodor Bondarchuk, 2010
The Raid: Redemption, Gareth Evans, 2012
Dune, John Harrison, 2000
Children of Dune, Greg Yaitanes, 2003
Elysium, Neill Blomkamp, 2013
Free to Choose, Milton Friedman, 1980
Obama 2016, Dinesh D’Souza, 2012
Inside Job, Charles Ferguson, 2010
No End in Sight, Charles Ferguson, 2007
Dead Poets Society, Peter Weir, 1989
Welcome to Dongmakgol, Kwang-Hyun Park, 2005
Bonnie and Clyde, Arthur Penn, 1967
Redacted, Brian DePalma, 2007
Reds, Warren Beatty, 1981
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Steven Spielberg, 1977
Stalin, Ivan Passer, 1992
2010, Peter Hyams, 1984
Das Experiment, Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2001
Blowout, Brian DePalma, 1981
Burma VJ, Anders Østergaard, 2008
All Quiet on the Western Front, Lewis Milestone, 1930
Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino, 2012
World War Z, Marc Foster, 2013
1984, Michael Radford, 1984
Life of Pi, Ang Lee, 2012
Compliance, Craig Zobel, 2012
Omega Man, Boris Sagal, 1971
Things to Come, HG Wells, 1936
Gravity, Alfonso Cuaron, 2013
Red Scorpion, Jack Abramoff, 1988
Soylent Green, Richard Fleischer, 1973
Anna Karenina, Joe Wright, 2012
Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow, 2012
Testament, Lynne Littman, 1983
Westworld, Michael Crichton, 1973
Futureworld, Richard Hefrron, 1976
24 (season 5), Keifer Sutherland, 2006
In the Loop, Armando Iannucci, 2009
Homeland (season 1), 2011
Alien Nation, Graham Baker, 1988
Olympus Has Fallen, Antoine Fuqua, 2013
Red Dawn, Dan Bradley, 2012
Lincoln, Steven Spielberg, 2012
2012
2012, books:
Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International Ambition, Jack Snyder, 1991
Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science, Stephen van Evera, 1997
Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences, Alexander George and Andrew Bennett, 2005
The American Culture of War: A History of US Military Force from World War II to Operation Enduring Freedom, Adrian Lews, 2012
Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards, Henry Brady & David Collier, 2010
L.A. Confidential, James Ellroy, 1990
The World of Late Antiquity: A.D. 150-750, Peter Brown, 1971
Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research, Gary King, Robert Keohane & Sydney Verba, 1994
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
My Way, Je-Gyu Kang, 2011
The Hobbit, Peter Jackson, 2012
Over There, Stephen Bochco, 2005
Expendables 2, Simon West, 2012
Total Recall, Len Wiseman, 2012
The Dictator, Sacha Baron Cohen, 2012
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Timur Bekmambetov, 2012
The People vs George Lucas, Alexandre Philippe, 2011
The Dark Knight Rises, Christopher Nolan, 2012
Game Change, Jay Roach, 2012
Margin Call, JC Chandor, 2011
Savages, Oliver Stone, 2012
Argo, Ben Affleck, 2012
The Ides of March, George Clooney, 2011
The Company, Mikael Salomon, 2007
J. Edgar, Clint Eastwood, 2011
Tree of Life, Terence Malick, 2011
Game of Thrones, (seasons 1 & 2), David Benioff, 2011-12
Lebanon, Samuel Moaz, 2010
The Descendants, Alexander Payner, 2011
Doubt, John Shanley, 2008
Prometheus, Ridley Scott, 2012
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
Too Big to Fail, Curtis Hanson, 2011
The Stoning of Soraya M., Cyrus Nowrasteh, 2009
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
24 (Season 4), Keifer Sutherland, 2005
Human Planet, BBC, 2011
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
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
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
