Ranked: The Motive, Method, Ideology, and Consequences of Intervention

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: The Motive, Method, Ideology, and Consequences of Intervention


Why do sovereign states decide to intervene in the affairs of other sovereign states?  This list of books showcases what happens when interventions happen.  


  1. Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua
  2. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall
  3. Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire by John Man
  4. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
  5. The Challenge Of Africa by Wangari Maathai
  6. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neill 
  7. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
  8. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
  9. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
  10. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
  11. After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy by Christopher J. Coyne
  12. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
  13. [Upcoming] Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
  14. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan
  15. Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient by Edward W. Said
  16. The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's Battle by Isabel Kershner
  17. The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
  18. When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
  19. Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach
  20. Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule by Tsering Woeser
  21. Citizenship Papers by Wendell Berry
  22. Charlemagne by Johannes Fried
  23. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
  24. Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  25. Empire by Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri
  26. The Mandela Revolution: A British Soldier's Inside View of His Rise to Power by Huw Lawford
  27. The Approaching Storm: Conflict in Asia. 1945-1965 by Edward J. Marolda