Ranked: How Is Sovereignty Is Gained And Lost?

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: How Is Sovereignty Is Gained And Lost?

What Is Sovereignty:

Individual Sovereignty:

1. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
2. The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy by Anthony Gottlieb
3. The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates by Peter T. Leeson
4. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
5. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
6. The Heroine With 1,001 Faces by Maria Tatar
7. Citizenship Papers by Wendell Berry
8. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

General Understanding Of Sovereignty:

1. The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World by Stewart Patrick
2. The Politics by Aristotle
3. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

Various States:

Around The World

1. Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua
2. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann
3. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
4. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller

Empires Of Islam

1. Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong

African States: 

1. The Challenge Of Africa by Wangari Maathai

Which State Are You Interested In?

China:

1. Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule by Tsering Woeser
2. Ancient China: Chinese Civilization From Its Origins To The Tang Dynasty by Maurizio Scarpari

Egypt:

1. Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

France:

1. When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan

Greece:

1. Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West by Tom Holland

Haiti:

1. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

India / Fiction

1. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Indonesia:

1. Indonesia, Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation by Elizabeth Pisani

Iraq:

1. Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach

Israel:

1. The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland by Shlomo Sand

Japan:

1. Paekche's Principle: The Great Secret Of Asia by Bayemy Biyik

Norway:

1. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie

Macedonia:

1. The Perdiccas Years, 323–320 BC: Alexander's Successors at War by Tristan Hughes
2. Alexander the Great's Legacy: The Decline of Macedonian Europe in the Wake of the Wars of the Successors by Mike Roberts

Mongolia:

1. The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau
2. The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire by Jack Weatherford

Persia:

1. Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West by Tom Holland

Portugal:

1. The First Global Village: How Portugal Changed the World by Martin Page

Roman Empire:

1. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
2. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
3. Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America by Cullen Murphy

Russia:

1. Hybrid Warfare: The Russian Approach to Strategic Competition & Conventional Military Conflict by Curtis L. Fox
2. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville

Singapore

1. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew

South Korea:

1. Paekche's Principle: The Great Secret Of Asia by Bayemy Biyik

Spain:

1. Empire: How Spain Became a World Power, 1492-1763 by Henry Kamen
2. The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Empire by William S. Maltby

United Kingdom:

1. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
2. When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
3. Cities of Empire: The British Colonies and the Creation of the Urban World by Tristram Hunt

United States of America:

1. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
2. The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto
3. These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore

Ukraine:

• Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum

Vikings:

• The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie