Political Science Book Summaries

The Tragedy of Great Power Politics Summary
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
by John J. Mearsheimer 2001 592 pages
4.06
3k+ ratings
Politics
International Relations
History
Why Nations Fail Summary
Why Nations Fail
The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
by Daron Acemoğlu 2012 529 pages
4.09
57k+ ratings
Politics
History
Business
Death by China Summary
Death by China
Confronting the Dragon - A Global Call to Action
by Peter Navarro 2011 303 pages
3.49
500+ ratings
China
Politics
Economics
The Prince Summary
The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli 1513 144 pages
3.84
300k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Politics
World Order Summary
World Order
by Henry Kissinger 2014 420 pages
4.05
13k+ ratings
Politics
History
International Relations
Leviathan Summary
Leviathan
by Thomas Hobbes 1651 736 pages
3.71
50k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
History
Soft Power Summary
Soft Power
The Means to Success in World Politics
by Joseph S. Nye Jr. 2004 191 pages
3.82
2k+ ratings
Politics
International Relations
Political Science
On Tyranny Summary
On Tyranny
Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
by Timothy Snyder 2017 127 pages
4.26
83k+ ratings
History
Philosophy
Essays
How Civil Wars Start Summary
How Civil Wars Start
And How to Stop Them
by Barbara F. Walter 2022 320 pages
4.24
5k+ ratings
Politics
History
War
How Democracies Die Summary
How Democracies Die
What History Reveals About Our Future
by Steven Levitsky 2018 320 pages
4.16
29k+ ratings
Politics
History
Political Science
A Conflict of Visions Summary
A Conflict of Visions
Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
by Thomas Sowell 1986 304 pages
4.32
4k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Economics
The Machiavellians Summary
The Machiavellians
Defenders of Freedom
by James Burnham 1943 305 pages
4.29
1k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
The Revenge Of Geography Summary
The Revenge Of Geography
What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
by Robert D. Kaplan 2012 432 pages
3.78
5k+ ratings
History
Politics
Geography
The Anatomy of Fascism Summary
The Anatomy of Fascism
by Robert O. Paxton 2004 336 pages
4.22
4k+ ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
The End of History and the Last Man Summary
The End of History and the Last Man
by Francis Fukuyama 1992 464 pages
3.60
7k+ ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
Utilitarianism Summary
Utilitarianism
by John Stuart Mill 1861 71 pages
3.68
24k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Classics
The Dictator's Handbook Summary
The Dictator's Handbook
Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita 2011 321 pages
4.26
10k+ ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
Autocracy, Inc. Summary
Autocracy, Inc.
by Anne Applebaum 2024 224 pages
4.23
10k+ ratings
Politics
History
Political Science
Man, the State, and War Summary
Man, the State, and War
A Theoretical Analysis
by Kenneth N. Waltz 1954 263 pages
3.97
2k+ ratings
Politics
International Relations
Political Science
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy Summary
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy
Towards a Radical Democratic Politics
by Ernesto Laclau 1985 198 pages
3.84
1k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Theory
Wealth, Poverty and Politics Summary
Wealth, Poverty and Politics
An International Perspective
by Thomas Sowell 2015 328 pages
4.36
2k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
History
The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939 Summary
The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939
An Introduction to the Study of International Relations
by Edward Hallett Carr 1939 244 pages
4.08
1k+ ratings
History
International Relations
Politics
Politics Summary
Politics
by Aristotle 368 pages
3.98
41k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Classics
Diplomacy Summary
Diplomacy
by Henry Kissinger 1994 912 pages
4.25
9k+ ratings
History
Politics
International Relations
Machiavelli Summary
Machiavelli
A Very Short Introduction
by Quentin Skinner 1981 110 pages
3.84
500+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Politics
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy Summary
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
by John J. Mearsheimer 2006 484 pages
4.09
3k+ ratings
Politics
History
International Relations
The Oil Curse Summary
The Oil Curse
How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations
by Michael L. Ross 2012 312 pages
3.96
100+ ratings
Politics
Economics
History
Tyranny of the Minority Summary
Tyranny of the Minority
Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
by Steven Levitsky 2023 368 pages
4.40
3k+ ratings
Politics
History
Political Science
The Road to Unfreedom Summary
The Road to Unfreedom
Russia, Europe, America
by Timothy Snyder 2018 359 pages
4.37
10k+ ratings
History
Politics
Russia
The Bill of Obligations Summary
The Bill of Obligations
The Ten Habits of Good Citizens
by Richard N. Haass 2023 240 pages
4.14
1k+ ratings
Politics
History
American History
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order Summary
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
by Samuel P. Huntington 1996 368 pages
3.78
13k+ ratings
Politics
History
International Relations
Policy Paradox Summary
Policy Paradox
The Art of Political Decision Making
by Deborah Stone 1988 448 pages
3.87
1k+ ratings
Politics
Political Science
Grad School
Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences Summary
Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences
by Alexander L. George 2005 331 pages
3.80
100+ ratings
Political Science
Politics
Social Science
Why Civil Resistance Works Summary
Why Civil Resistance Works
The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
by Erica Chenoweth 2011 320 pages
4.02
500+ ratings
Politics
History
Activism
The Road to Serfdom Summary
The Road to Serfdom
by Friedrich A. Hayek 1944 274 pages
4.15
25k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
The Post-American World Summary
The Post-American World
by Fareed Zakaria 2008 292 pages
3.86
12k+ ratings
Politics
History
Economics
Geopolitics Summary
Geopolitics
A Very Short Introduction
by Klaus Dodds 2007 184 pages
3.34
500+ ratings
Politics
History
Geography
The Narrow Corridor Summary
The Narrow Corridor
States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
by Daron Acemoğlu 2019 560 pages
4.22
3k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
History
The Global Minotaur Summary
The Global Minotaur
America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy
by Yanis Varoufakis 2011 252 pages
4.17
2k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
History
The Oil Kings Summary
The Oil Kings
How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East
by Andrew Scott Cooper 2011 546 pages
4.11
500+ ratings
History
Politics
Iran
The Great Debate Summary
The Great Debate
Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
by Yuval Levin 2013 296 pages
3.87
1k+ ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
The System Summary
The System
Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
by Robert B. Reich 2020 224 pages
4.28
3k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
History
Why We're Polarized Summary
Why We're Polarized
by Ezra Klein 2020 336 pages
4.22
17k+ ratings
Politics
History
Psychology
The Political Brain Summary
The Political Brain
The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation
by Drew Westen 2007 457 pages
4.05
1k+ ratings
Politics
Psychology
Science
Against Democracy Summary
Against Democracy
by Jason Brennan 2016 304 pages
3.67
1k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Political Science
The Origins of Totalitarianism Summary
The Origins of Totalitarianism
by Hannah Arendt 1951 527 pages
4.30
13k+ ratings
History
Philosophy
Politics
War on Peace Summary
War on Peace
The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
by Ronan Farrow 2018 392 pages
4.15
8k+ ratings
Politics
History
War
The Grand Chessboard Summary
The Grand Chessboard
American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives
by Zbigniew Brzeziński 1997 240 pages
3.97
3k+ ratings
Politics
History
International Relations
The Future of Freedom Summary
The Future of Freedom
Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
by Fareed Zakaria 2003 295 pages
4.02
3k+ ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
How Fascism Works Summary
How Fascism Works
The Politics of Us and Them
by Jason F. Stanley 2018 240 pages
4.22
11k+ ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
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