Books:
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.
Iriye, Akira. The Globalizing of America, 1913-1945. Vol. 3 in The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Hahn, Peter L. Crisis and Crossfire: The United States and the Middle East since 1945. Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2005.
McMahon, Robert J. The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Rabe, Stephen G. The Killing Zone: the United States Wages Cold War in Latin America. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
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.