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.
- Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua
- Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall
- Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire by John Man
- The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
- The Challenge Of Africa by Wangari Maathai
- Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neill
- Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
- Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
- The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
- Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
- After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy by Christopher J. Coyne
- Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
- Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
- The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan
- Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient by Edward W. Said
- The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's Battle by Isabel Kershner
- (Circa 2019 - 2022 Century C.E.) The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
- The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
- When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
- Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach
- Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule by Tsering Woeser
- Citizenship Papers by Wendell Berry
- Charlemagne by Johannes Fried
- Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
- Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Empire by Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri
- The Mandela Revolution: A British Soldier's Inside View of His Rise to Power by Huw Lawford
- The Approaching Storm: Conflict in Asia. 1945-1965 by Edward J. Marolda
