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. The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War by Mark Galeotti
  3. Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco
  4. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
  5. A Philosophy of Evil by Lars Svendsen
  6. War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
  7. The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth by Amy C. Edmondson
  8. Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by Brian Klaas
  9. The Divided State: Factional Structures and the Crisis of Democracy by Joonhong Park
  10. The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr
  11. Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent by Dipo Faloyin
  12. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson
  13. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
  14. The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good by Robert H. Frank
  15. [Upcoming] What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael Sandel
  16. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria
  17. Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
  18. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
  19. The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America by Verlan Lewis, Hyrum Lewis
  20. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall
  21. Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
  22. How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer, Sebastian Rosato
  23. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
  24. An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
  25. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
  26. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
  27. The Second Stage by Betty Friedan
  28. Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba
  29. Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq by Bartle Bull
  30. The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society by Debra Soh
  31. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
  32. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
  33. Race And Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell
  34. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
  35. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
  36. Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
  37. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
  38. A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
  39. The God That Failed Edited by Richard Crossman
  40. My Two Chinas: The Memoir of a Chinese Counterrevolutionary by Baiqiao Tang
  41. Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
  42. Hot Buttons: How to Resolve Conflict and Cool Everyone Down by Sybil Evans, Sherry Suib Cohen
  43. Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire by John Man
  44. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
  45. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
  46. Hybrid Warfare: The Russian Approach to Strategic Competition & Conventional Military Conflict by Curtis L. Fox
  47. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
  48. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
  49. The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's Battle by Isabel Kershner
  50. The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
  51. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
  52. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan
  53. Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
  54. The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
  55. Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein
  56. Forgotten Capitals and the Historical Lessons They Teach by Derek Dwight Anderson
  57. Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  58. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
  59. Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger by Peter Bevelin
  60. Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule by Tsering Woeser
  61. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
  62. The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World by Stewart Patrick
  63. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
  64. The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality by Katharina Pistor
  65. Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women's Rights by Helen Joyce
  66. The Secret Network of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things-- Stories from Science and Observation by Peter Wohlleben
  67. Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong
  68. The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland by Shlomo Sand
  69. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
  70. The Possibility Principle: How Quantum Physics Can Improve the Way You Think, Live, and Love by Mel Schwartz
  71. The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau
  72. The New Chinese Empire: And What It Means For The United States by Ross Terrill
  73. Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach
  74. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
  75. Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming by McKenzie Funk
  76. Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump by Joseph E. Stiglitz
  77. The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann
  78. Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship Is Poisoning the U.S. House of Representatives by Juliet Eilperin
  79. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
  80. The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
  81. Saint Joan of Arc by Vita Sackville-West
  82. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
  83. A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin
  84. Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry
  85. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
  86. When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
  87. 1789: The Threshold of the Modern Age by David Andress
  88. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
  89. A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich
  90. Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns
  91. Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider by Peter Gay
  92. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene B. Sledge
  93. Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz
  94. Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient by Edward W. Said
  95. Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Peter Godfrey-Smith
  96. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  97. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  98. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  99. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
  100. Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek
  101. Indonesia, Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation by Elizabeth Pisani
  102. The Mandela Revolution: A British Soldier's Inside View of His Rise to Power by Huw Lawford
  103. The Perdiccas Years, 323–320 BC: Alexander's Successors at War by Tristan Hughes
  104. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville
  105. Black Sea by Neal Ascherson
  106. 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. The Godfather by Mario Puzo 
  5. Death's End by Cixin Liu (The Three-Body Problem Series)
  6. A Voracious Grief by Lindsey Lamh
  7. Elektra by Jennifer Saint
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