Books:
Bacevich, Andrew J. The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. 1-33, 69-146, 175-204.
Cumings, Bruce. The Korean War: A History. New York: Modern Library, 2010. Pp. 1-58, 77-221.
Hunt, Michael H. and Steven I. Levine. Arc of Empire: America¡¯s Wars in Asia from the Philippines to Vietnam. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Pp. 10-119, 185-279.
McMahon, Robert. The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 1-168.
Reynolds, David. From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt¡¯s America and the Origins of the Second World War. Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee, 2001. Pp. 12-190.
Tooze, Adam. The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order, 1916-1931. London: Allen Lane, 2014. Pp. 50-67, 218-31.
Supplemental readings:
Articles marked with * are printed in a compendium available at Akademika. € are available online.
*Eisenberg, Carolyn Wood. Drawing the Line: The American Decision to Divide Germany, 1944-1949. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. 1-13, 485-93.
*Williams, William Appleman. The Tragedy of American Diplomacy, fiftieth anniversary edition. 1959, 1972; repr., New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2009. Pp. 27-57, 228-43.