Books

From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin

Integrates Soviet and post-Soviet history by following the role models, habits and identity claims that persist across regimes from Lenin to Putin.

Eleventh Hour in 2020 America

A retired Army lieutenant colonel's argument that decades of failed military interventions have weakened American security, drawing on his own combat deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan to critique the foreign policy establishment.

The Ukraine War & the Eurasian World Order

An analysis of the Ukraine conflict as a catalyst for the restructuring of global order, tracing how the war has accelerated the formation of a Eurasian economic and security architecture independent of Western institutions.

“Must reading… an absolutely striking, evidence-rich, and very wise analysis”— Jeffrey Sachs

America's Continuing Misadventures in the Middle East

A senior diplomat's assessment of American policy failures in the Middle East, arguing that decades of intervention have produced neither stability nor security for any party involved.

I'm Not the Only One

Galloway's political memoir covering his expulsion from the Labour Party, his opposition to the Iraq war, and his broader critique of British foreign policy's subordination to American interests.

Super Imperialism

The third edition of Hudson's landmark analysis of how the United States constructed a global financial system that allows it to extract tribute from other nations through dollar hegemony and debt diplomacy rather than traditional territorial empire.

Strategy for Action

A practitioner's framework for strategic thinking about the use of force, drawing on Jermy's career as a Royal Navy rear admiral and his experience in operational planning from the Balkans to Iraq.

Neutral Europe and the Creation of the Nonproliferation Regime

Edited with Yoko Iwama. Examines how Europe's neutral and nonaligned states shaped the negotiations for the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, from the Irish Resolution of 1958 until the treaty opened for signature, with case studies of Ireland, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Austria, and Yugoslavia.

Neutral Beyond the Cold

Edited with Heinz Gärtner and Herbert R. Reginbogin. Argues the post-Cold War did not end neutrality: Sweden and Finland edged toward Western institutions, while Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, and Malta stayed nonaligned, and new neutrality policies emerged across Eurasia.

Sweden, Japan, and the Long Second World War

Written with Ingemar Ottosson. Traces neutral Sweden's diplomacy with Imperial Japan from the Manchurian Incident in 1931 through Japan's surrender in 1945, and what that relationship shows about neutrality when the belligerent is not an immediate threat.

Permanent Neutrality

Edited with Herbert R. Reginbogin. Essays on permanent neutrality as a security model set against collective security, with studies of its implications for Taiwan, Russia, Ukraine, the European Union, and the United States.

Notions of Neutralities

Edited with Herbert R. Reginbogin. Historical essays on how neutrality has been defined and practised, from maritime law and interwar America to wartime Japan, the Bank for International Settlements, Soviet policy, and post-Soviet Moldova, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine.

Margin of Victory

Five case studies in modern warfare — from the Meuse-Argonne to Desert Storm — examining how small margins of tactical innovation and leadership determined the outcome of battles that reshaped military doctrine.

America's Final War

The fourth and final volume in Martyanov's series on American military decline, examining how the Ukraine war has exposed the structural inability of the US defence-industrial base to sustain a peer conflict.

“A devastating analysis of American military mythology”— Pepe Escobar

How States Think

A theory of strategic rationality co-authored with Sebastian Rosato, arguing that states are rational actors even when their decisions look irrational from outside. Challenges both liberal and behavioural critiques of realism.

The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

The foundational text of offensive realism. Argues great powers are compelled by the structure of the international system to seek hegemony, and that conflict between them is inevitable rather than a policy choice.

It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong

A constitutional argument that the American government has systematically violated the natural rights it was created to protect, drawing on legal history from the founding era through the War on Terror.

A Misfit in Moscow

A career British diplomat's insider account of the UK Embassy in Moscow during the period of acute deterioration in Anglo-Russian relations. Named a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2024.

Highway to Hell

A decade of Ritter's commentary on the accelerating confrontation between the West and Russia, compiled and contextualised as a chronicle of how diplomatic failure led to the brink of wider conflict.

The Ages of Globalization

A sweeping history of globalisation across seven ages, arguing that geographic, technological, and institutional factors — not cultural superiority — explain why certain regions rose to dominance at different points in history.

Understanding Capitalism

The latest in Wolff's accessible economics series, extending his analysis of capitalism's structural contradictions into an era of pandemic recovery, inflation, and rising inequality. Published through his nonprofit Democracy at Work.