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 Divided State: Factional Structures and the Crisis of Democracy by Joonhong Park
  8. The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr
  9. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson
  10. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
  11. The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good by Robert H. Frank
  12. [Upcoming] Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
  13. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
  14. The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America by Verlan Lewis, Hyrum Lewis
  15. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall
  16. Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
  17. How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer, Sebastian Rosato
  18. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
  19. An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
  20. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
  21. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
  22. The Second Stage by Betty Friedan
  23. Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba
  24. The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society by Debra Soh
  25. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
  26. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
  27. Race And Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell
  28. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
  29. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
  30. Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
  31. A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
  32. My Two Chinas: The Memoir of a Chinese Counterrevolutionary by Baiqiao Tang
  33. Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
  34. Hot Buttons: How to Resolve Conflict and Cool Everyone Down by Sybil Evans, Sherry Suib Cohen
  35. Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire by John Man
  36. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
  37. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
  38. Hybrid Warfare: The Russian Approach to Strategic Competition & Conventional Military Conflict by Curtis L. Fox
  39. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
  40. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
  41. The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's Battle by Isabel Kershner
  42. The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
  43. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
  44. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan
  45. Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
  46. The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
  47. Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein
  48. Forgotten Capitals and the Historical Lessons They Teach by Derek Dwight Anderson
  49. Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  50. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
  51. Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger by Peter Bevelin
  52. Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule by Tsering Woeser
  53. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
  54. The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World by Stewart Patrick
  55. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
  56. The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality by Katharina Pistor
  57. Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women's Rights by Helen Joyce
  58. The Secret Network of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things-- Stories from Science and Observation by Peter Wohlleben
  59. Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong
  60. The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland by Shlomo Sand
  61. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
  62. The Possibility Principle: How Quantum Physics Can Improve the Way You Think, Live, and Love by Mel Schwartz
  63. The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau
  64. The New Chinese Empire: And What It Means For The United States by Ross Terrill
  65. Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach
  66. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
  67. Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming by McKenzie Funk
  68. Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump by Joseph E. Stiglitz
  69. The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann
  70. Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship Is Poisoning the U.S. House of Representatives by Juliet Eilperin
  71. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
  72. Saint Joan of Arc by Vita Sackville-West
  73. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
  74. A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin
  75. Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry
  76. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
  77. When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
  78. 1789: The Threshold of the Modern Age by David Andress
  79. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
  80. A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich
  81. Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns
  82. Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz
  83. Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient by Edward W. Said
  84. Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Peter Godfrey-Smith
  85. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  86. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  87. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  88. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
  89. Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek
  90. Indonesia, Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation by Elizabeth Pisani
  91. The Mandela Revolution: A British Soldier's Inside View of His Rise to Power by Huw Lawford
  92. The Perdiccas Years, 323–320 BC: Alexander's Successors at War by Tristan Hughes
  93. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville
  94. Black Sea by Neal Ascherson
  95. 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