Anderson, F. (2000) The crucible of war: the Seven Years’ War and the fate of empire in British North America, 1754-1766. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Anderson, F. and Stephenson, R.S. (2005) The war that made America: a short history of the French and Indian War. New York: Viking.
Avalon Project - The Covenant of the League of Nations (no date). Available at: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/leagcov.asp.
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Bell, D.A. (2007) The first total war: Napoleon’s Europe and the birth of modern warfare. London: Bloomsbury.
Berlin, I., Hardy, H. and Hausheer, R. (1998) The proper study of mankind: an anthology of essays. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Boyle, F.A. (1999) Foundations of world order: the legalist approach to international relations (1898-1921). Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.
Bridge, F.R. and Bullen, R.J. (1980) The great powers and the European states system 1815-1914. London: Longman.
Chandrasekaran, R. (2007) Imperial life in the emerald city: inside Baghdad’s green zone. London: Bloomsbury.
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Clausewitz, C. von et al. (1984) On war. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Clausewitz, C. von, Howard, M.E. and Paret, P. (1984) On war. Indexed ed. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Available at: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bham/detail.action?docID=771271.
Clausewitz, Nonlinearity, and the Unpredictability of War (no date). Available at: https://muse-jhu-edu.bham-ezproxy.idm.oclc.org/article/447033/pdf.
Cochrane, E. and Kirshner, J. (1986) The Renaissance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Craig, G.A., Gilbert, F. and Paret, P. (1986) Makers of modern strategy: from Machiavelli to the nuclear age. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Crawley, R., Strassler, R.B., and Thucydides (2008a) The landmark Thucydides: a comprehensive guide to the Peloponnesian War. Free Press trade paperback ed. London: Free Press.
Crawley, R., Strassler, R.B., and Thucydides (2008b) The landmark Thucydides: a comprehensive guide to the Peloponnesian War. Free Press trade paperback ed. London: Free Press.
David Kilcullen (2009) Accidental Guerrilla : Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One. Oxford University Press, USA. Available at: http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bham/detail.action?docID=415820.
Filkins, D. (2009) The forever war: dispatches from the War on Terror. London: Vintage.
Fischer, D.H. (2008) Champlain’s dream. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Gaddis, J.L. (2004) Surprise, security, and the American experience. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
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Gray, J.G. (1998) The warriors: reflections on men in battle. Lincoln, Neb: University of Nebraska Press.
Griffith, S.B. and Sunzi (1971) The art of war. London: Oxford University Press.
Gulick, E.V. (1967) Europe’s classical balance of power: a case history of the theory and practice of one of the great concepts of European statecraft. New York: Norton.
Haslam, J. (2002) No virtue like necessity: realist thought in international relations since Machiavelli. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Henry A. Kissinger (1968) ‘The White Revolutionary: Reflections on Bismarck’, Daedalus, 97(3), pp. 888–924. Available at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20023844?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents.
Ikenberry, G.J. (2001a) After victory: institutions, strategic restraint, and the rebuilding of order after major wars. Oxford: Princeton University Press.
Ikenberry, G.J. (2001b) After victory: institutions, strategic restraint, and the rebuilding of order after major wars. Oxford: Princeton University Press. Available at: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bham/detail.action?docID=772271.
Jasanoff, M. (2012) Liberty’s exiles: American loyalists in the revolutionary world. First Vintage books edition. New York: Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
Joffe, J. (1995) ‘“Bismarck” or “Britain”? Toward an American Grand Strategy after Bipolarity’, International Security, 19(4). Available at: https://doi.org/10.2307/2539121.
Kagan, D. (2003) The Peloponnesian War: Athens and Sparta in Savage Conflict, 431-404 BC. New York, USA: HarperCollins Publishers.
Kagan, D. (2010) Thucydides: the reinvention of history. New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books.
Kagan, R. (2007) Dangerous nation. New York: Vintage Books.
Kant, I., Nisbet, H.B. and Reiss, H. (1991) Kant: political writings. 2nd enlarged ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Kennedy, P.M. (1989a) The rise and fall of the great powers: economic change and military conflict from 1500-2000. London: Fontana.
Kennedy, P.M. (1989b) The rise and fall of the great powers: economic change and military conflict from 1500-2000. London: Fontana.
Kennedy, P.M. (1989c) The rise and fall of the great powers: economic change and military conflict from 1500-2000. London: Fontana.
Kennedy, P.M. (1991) Grand strategies in war and peace. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Kennedy, P.M. (2017) The rise and fall of British naval mastery. London: Penguin Books.
Kissinger, H. (1964) A world restored. New York: Grosset & Dunlap.
Kissinger, H. (1994a) Diplomacy. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Kissinger, H. (1994b) Diplomacy. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Knox, M. and Bernstein, A. (2009a) The making of strategy: rulers, states, and war. Edited by W. Murray. New York, New York: Cambridge University Press. Available at: http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bham/detail.action?docID=3004598.
Knox, M. and Bernstein, A. (2009b) The making of strategy: rulers, states, and war. Edited by W. Murray. New York, New York: Cambridge University Press. Available at: http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bham/detail.action?docID=3004598.
Laurie M. Johnson Bagby (1994) ‘The Use and Abuse of Thucydides in International Relations’, International Organization, 48(1), pp. 131–153. Available at: http://www.jstor.org.bham-ezproxy.idm.oclc.org/stable/2706917?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents.
Machiavelli, N. and Mansfield, H.C. (1998) The prince. Second edition. Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press.
Mackesy, P. and Shy, J.W. (1993a) The War for America, 1775-1783. Nebraska: UNP - Bison Books. Available at: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bham/detail.action?docID=1988086.
Mackesy, P. and Shy, J.W. (1993b) The war for America, 1775-1783. Bison Book edition, reprint. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.
Mansfield, H.C. (1998) Machiavelli’s virtue. Pbk. ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Available at: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bham/detail.action?docID=534588.
Marlantes, K. (2012) What it is like to go to war. London: Corvus.
Mattingly, G. (1987) The Armada. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Mattingly, G. (no date) The invincible Armada and Elizabethan England. Ithaca, N.Y: Published for the Folger Shakespeare Library (by) Cornell University Press.
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Mead, W.R. (2002b) Special providence: American foreign policy and how it changed the world. New York: Routledge. Available at: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bham/detail.action?docID=1195748.
Merry, R.W. (2009) A country of vast designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the conquest of the American continent. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Moynihan, D.P. (1990) On the law of nations. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
Murray, W., Knox, M. and Bernstein, A.H. (eds) (1994a) The making of strategy: rulers, states, and war. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Murray, W., Knox, M. and Bernstein, A.H. (eds) (1994b) The making of strategy: rulers, states, and war. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Murray, W., Knox, M. and Bernstein, A.H. (eds) (1994c) The making of strategy: rulers, states, and war. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Murray, W., Knox, M. and Bernstein, A.H. (eds) (1994d) The making of strategy: rulers, states, and war. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Murray, W., Knox, M. and Bernstein, A.H. (eds) (1994e) The making of strategy: rulers, states, and war. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Paret, P. (2009a) The cognitive challenge of war: Prussia 1806. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Available at: http://findit.bham.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=44BIR_VU1&search_scope=default_scope&docId=44BIR_PDA1_DSEBC483579&fn=permalink.
Paret, P. (2009b) The cognitive challenge of war: Prussia 1806. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Available at: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bham/detail.action?docID=483579.
Parker, G. (1998a) The grand strategy of Philip II. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press.
Parker, G. (1998b) The grand strategy of Philip II. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press.
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Powers, K. (2013) The yellow birds. London: Sceptre.
Ritter, G. and Norden, H. (1972) The sword and the sceptre: the problem of militarism in Germany. London (74 Grosvenor St., W1X OAS): Allen Lane.
Russett, B.M. and Antholis, W. (1993) Grasping the democratic peace: principles for a post-Cold War world. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Available at: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bham/detail.action?docID=581651.
Schroeder, P.W. (1994) The transformation of European politics 1763-1848. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Shy, John W. (1990) A people numerous and armed: reflections on the military struggle for American independence. John W. Shy. Available at: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=acls;idno=heb01399.0001.001.
Shy, J.W. and American Council of Learned Societies (2008) A people numerous and armed: reflections on the military struggle for American independence. New York: ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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‘The National Security Strategy of the United States, May 2010’ (no date). Available at: http://nssarchive.us/NSSR/2010.pdf.
‘The National Security Strategy of the United States, September 2002’ (no date). Available at: https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/63562.pdf.
Tooze, J.A. (2007) The wages of destruction: the making and breaking of the Nazi economy. London: Penguin.
Victor Hanson (no date) A War Like No Other. Random House Trade Paperbacks.
Vincent, R.J. (1981) ‘The Hobbesian Tradition in Twentieth Century International Thought’, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 10(2), pp. 91–101. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/03058298810100020301.
Walzer, M. (2015) Just and unjust wars: a moral argument with historical illustrations. Fifth edition. New York: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group. Available at: http://www.vlebooks.com/vleweb/product/openreader?id=Birmingham&isbn=9780465052707.
Wehler, H.U. (1985) The German Empire 1871-1918. New York: Berg.
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Westad, O.A. (2007) The global Cold War: third world interventions and the making of our times. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Wilentz, S. (2005) The rise of American democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln. New York: Norton. Available at: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip055/2004029466.html.
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Wood, G.S. (2009) Empire of liberty: a history of the early Republic, 1789-1815. New York: Oxford University Press. Available at: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bham/detail.action?docID=472406.