Ranked: Why Conflict Occurs And How To Resolve Them?

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: Why Conflict Occurs And How To Resolve Them?


  1. Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua
  2. Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco
  3. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
  4. A Philosophy of Evil by Lars Svendsen
  5. War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
  6. Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by Brian Klaas
  7. The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr
  8. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson
  9. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
  10. The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good by Robert H. Frank
  11. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
  12. The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America by Verlan Lewis, Hyrum Lewis
  13. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall
  14. Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
  15. [Upcoming] How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer, and Sebastian Rosato
  16. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
  17. An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
  18. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
  19. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
  20. The Second Stage by Betty Friedan
  21. Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba
  22. The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society by Debra Soh
  23. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
  24. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
  25. Race And Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell
  26. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
  27. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
  28. Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
  29. A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
  30. My Two Chinas: The Memoir of a Chinese Counterrevolutionary by Baiqiao Tang
  31. Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
  32. Hot Buttons: How to Resolve Conflict and Cool Everyone Down by Sybil Evans, Sherry Suib Cohen
  33. Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire by John Man
  34. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
  35. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
  36. Hybrid Warfare: The Russian Approach to Strategic Competition & Conventional Military Conflict by Curtis L. Fox
  37. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
  38. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
  39. The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
  40. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
  41. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan
  42. Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
  43. The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
  44. Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein
  45. Forgotten Capitals and the Historical Lessons They Teach by Derek Dwight Anderson
  46. Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  47. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
  48. Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger by Peter Bevelin
  49. Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule by Tsering Woeser
  50. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
  51. The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World by Stewart Patrick
  52. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
  53. The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality by Katharina Pistor
  54. Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women's Rights by Helen Joyce
  55. The Secret Network of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things-- Stories from Science and Observation by Peter Wohlleben
  56. Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong
  57. The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland by Shlomo Sand
  58. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
  59. The Possibility Principle: How Quantum Physics Can Improve the Way You Think, Live, and Love by Mel Schwartz
  60. The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau
  61. The New Chinese Empire: And What It Means For The United States by Ross Terrill
  62. Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach
  63. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
  64. Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming by McKenzie Funk
  65. Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump by Joseph E. Stiglitz
  66. The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann
  67. Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship Is Poisoning the U.S. House of Representatives by Juliet Eilperin
  68. [Upcoming] Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
  69. [Upcoming] Saint Joan of Arc by Vita Sackville-West
  70. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
  71. A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin
  72. Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry
  73. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
  74. When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
  75. 1789: The Threshold of the Modern Age by David Andress
  76. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
  77. A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich
  78. Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns
  79. Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz
  80. Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Peter Godfrey-Smith
  81. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  82. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  83. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  84. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
  85. Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek
  86. Indonesia, Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation by Elizabeth Pisani
  87. The Mandela Revolution: A British Soldier's Inside View of His Rise to Power by Huw Lawford
  88. The Perdiccas Years, 323–320 BC: Alexander's Successors at War by Tristan Hughes
  89. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville
  90. Black Sea by Neal Ascherson
  91. The Battle of the Little Bighorn: A Good Day To Die by Francis Hayes

Fiction
  1. Berlin by Jason Lutes
  2. The Schopenhauer Cure: A Novel by Irvin Yalom
  3. The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu (The Three-Body Problem Series)
  4. Death's End by Cixin Liu (The Three-Body Problem Series)
  5. A Voracious Grief by Lindsey Lamh
  6. Elektra by Jennifer Saint