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. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
  7. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
  8. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
  9. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
  10. After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy by Christopher J. Coyne
  11. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
  12. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan
  13. [Upcoming] Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient by Edward W. Said
  14. The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
  15. When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
  16. Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach
  17. Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule by Tsering Woeser
  18. Citizenship Papers by Wendell Berry
  19. Charlemagne by Johannes Fried
  20. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
  21. Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  22. Empire by Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri
  23. The Mandela Revolution: A British Soldier's Inside View of His Rise to Power by Huw Lawford
  24. The Approaching Storm: Conflict in Asia. 1945-1965 by Edward J. Marolda
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