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Classical Authors Supporting Democracy

"The Geography of the Peace" by Nicholas John Spykman

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"The Struggle for the World" by James Burnham

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"The New World Problems in Political Geography" By Isaiah Bowman

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"Some Principals of Maritime Strategy" by Julian Corbett

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"England in the Seven Years War: A Study in Combined Strategy" by Julian Corbett

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"The Spectre of Navalism" by Julian Corbett

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"The League of Nations and the Freedom of the Seas" by Julian Corbett

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"America: Too Young to Die" by Alexander P.De Seversky

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"The Balance of Tomorrow: Power and Foreign Policy in the United States" by Robert Strausz-Hupe

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"Communist Strategy of Protracted Conflict" by Robert Strausz-Hupe

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"Maps, Strategy and World Politics" by Robert Strausz-Hupe

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"Principles of Human Geography" by Paul Vidal de la Bache

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Classical Authors Supporting Autocracy

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State Formation

"U.S. Grand Strategy and the Origins of the Developmental State." by James Lee

Journal of Strategic Studies, 43 (5)(2020): 737-761

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"Reinventing Japan in the Asian Century." by Tom Wilkins

in Foreign Policies and Diplomacies in Asia. Matthias Mass, ed. London: Routledge, 2025.

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"History is Written by the Losers: Strategy and Grand Strategy in the Aftermath of War." by Joshua Rovner.

Journal of Strategic Studies, 48 (1)(2025): 5-35

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"The Recalibration of China's Grand Strategy During the Biden Administration." by Aleksander Mitic and Nenad Stekic

Serbian Political Thought, (No. 2/2025): 1-26

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“Competing at Sea: The Grand Strategies of Great Continental Powers from the 16th to the 21st Century." by Georgia Tsiouli

Masters Thesis University of Macedonia, 2025

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"War and State Formation in China and Early Modern Europe" by Victoria Tin-Bor Hui

Cambridge University Press, 2025

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"The 100 Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower" by Michael Pillsbury

St. Martin's/Griffin, 2016

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"The Art of War" by Sun Tzu

Lionel Giles, trans

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"Formation of Muscovy 1304-1613" by Robert O.O. Crummey

Longman, 1987

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"Formation of the Soviet Union: Communism and Nationalism, 1917-1923" by Richard Pipes

Harvard University Press, 1997

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"The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History" by Donald W. Meinig

4 vols. Yale University Press, 1986-2006

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"Checkerboards and Shatterbelts: The Geopolitics of South America" by Philip Kelly

University of Texas Press, 1997

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"Historical Atlases: The First Three Hundred Years, 1570-1870" by Walter Goffart

University of Chicago Press, 2003

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"Surprise, Security, and the American Experience" by John Lewis Gaddis

Harvard University Press, 2004

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"The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order" by Samuel P. Huntington

Simon & Schuster, 1996

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"The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict From 1500-2000" by Paul Kennedy

Random House, 1988

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"The Long Game: China's Strategy to Displace American Order" by Rush Doshi

Oxford University Press, 2021

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"The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia's History" by Geoffrey Blainey

Pan Macmillian Australia, 2001

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"Great Powers and Geopolitical Change" by Jakub J. Grygiel

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006

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"Geopolitics, Geography, and Strategic History" by Geoffrey Sloan

Routledge, 2017

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"The Heroic Earth: Geopolitical Thought in Weimar Germany, 1918-1933" by David T. Murphy

Kent State University Press, 1997

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"Brazil's Security Strategy and Defense Doctrine" by Andrew Fishman and Max G. Manwaring

Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, 2011

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Nation Formation

"America, the Baltic States, and the Making of an Unlikely Security Alliance" by Andris Banka

Cham: Springer, 2026

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"The Shaping of America" by Donald W. Meining

4 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press

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"Before Manifest Destiny: The Contested Expansion of the Early United States" by Nicholas G. DiPucchio

Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2025

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"Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion" by Paul Frymer

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017

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"The Fabric of America: How our Borders and Boundaries Shaped Our Country and Formed Our National Identity" by Andro Linklater

New York: Walker & Co., 2007

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"The History of Cartography" Vols. 1-4, 6. University of Chicago Press Open Access

1987-present. Covers history of this subject on a global scale

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Other Recommended Readings

- "Historical Atlas of Canada"  by Geoffrey J. Mathis and Cole Harris. 3 vols. Toronto:  University of Toronto Press, 1987-1993.

- "Concise Historical Atlas of Canada"  by Geoffrey J. Mathis. Toronto:  University of Toronto Press.

- "A Country So Interesting:  The Hudson's Bay Company and Two Centuries of Mapping, 1670-1870" by Richard I. Ruggles. Montreal:  McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991.

- "British Columbia:  A New Historical Atlas" by  Derek Hayes. Vancouver:  Douglas & Macintyre, 2012.

- "Rise to Greatness:  A History of Canada from Vikings to the Present" by Conrad Black. Toronto:  McClelland and Stewart, 2014.

- "Mapping the Great Game:  Explorers, Spies, and Maps in Nineteenth Century Asia" by Riaz Dean. Oxford:  Casemate, 2019.

- "Historical Atlas of California:  With Original Maps" by Derek Hayes. Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2007.

- "Historical Atlas of the American West:  With Original Maps" by Derek Hayes. Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2009.

- "Historical Atlas of Washington and Oregon" by Derek Hayes & Iva Cheung. Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2011.

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Maritime Commerce

"World Trade Since 1431: Geography, Technology, and Capitalism" by Peter Hugill

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992

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"Super Highway: Seapower in the 21st Century" by Chris Parry

London: Elliot and Thompson, 2014

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United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

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"The Black Sea: A History" by Charles King

Oxford University Press, 2005

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International Maritime Organisation (IMO)

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"Pirate Imperialism: Trade, Abolition, and Global Suppression of Maritime Raiding, 1825-1870" by Manual Barcia

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2026

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"Maritime Economics. 3rd ed." by Martin Stopford

London: Routledge, 2009

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"The Millenium Maritime Trade Revolution, 700-1700 : How Asia Lost Maritime Supremacy" by Nick Collins

Pen and Sword Maritime, 2024

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"Trade, Plunder, and Settlement: Maritime Enterprise and the Genesis of the British Empire, 1480-1630" by Kenneth R. Andrews

Cambridge University Press, 1985

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"Sea of Treasures: A Cultural History of Indian Ocean Trade" by Jeremy A. Simmons

Forthcoming July 2026. Princeton University Press

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"The Ancient Cities and Global Trade of Palestine, A 7000 Year History" by Nur Masalha

Forthcoming June 2026. London: I.B. Tauris

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"Seafaring, Trade, and Knowledge Transfer: Maritime Politics and Commerce in the Early Middle Period to Early Modern China and South East and East Asia" by Angela Schottenhammer et. Al. Eds.

Brill. 2025

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"The Maritime Silk Road: Global Connectivities, Regional Nodes, Localities" by Franck Bille, et. Al. Eds.

Routledge, 2025

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"Handling Our Cargo: How the People's Republic of China Invests Strategically in the U.S. Maritime Industry" U.S. Congress

House Select Committee on Strategic Competition With the Chinese Communist Party. Washington, DC: The Committee, 2024

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"China's Global Fishing Offensive: China in Our Backyard Volume 1" by U.S. Congress

House Select Committee on Strategic Competition With the Chinese Communist Party. Washington, DC: The Committee, 2026

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"The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans" by David Abulafia

Oxford University Press, 2019

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"Trade and Maritime Transport Trends in the Pacific" by Asian Development Bank

Manila: Asian Development Bank, 2020

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"The Arabian Seas: The Indian Ocean World of the Seventeenth Century" by Rene J. Barendse

London: Routledge, 2001

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"The Contest for the Indian Ocean and the Making of a New World Order" by Darshana M. Baruah

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024

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"Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Early Modern Mediterranean" by Molly Greene

Princeton University Press, 2010

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"In the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783" by Michael J. Jarvis

University of North Carolina Press, 2012

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"The Ocean is a Wilderness: Atlantic Piracy and the Limits of State Authority, 1688-1856" by Guy Chet

Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2014

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"A World at Sea: Maritime Practices and Global History" by Lauren Benton and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, eds.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania History, 2020

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"The Baltic and the North Seas" by Merja-Lisa Hinkkanen & David Kirby

London: Routledge, 2000

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"Finland and the Baltic Sea: A Millenium of Trade, Power, & Exchange" by Adrian E. Markham

Vihrea Press, 2025

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Technology Competition

Grand Strategy

"The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire" by Wess Mitchell

Princeton University Press, 2019

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"Great Power Diplomacy: The Skill of Statecraft from Attila the Hun to Kissinger" by Wess Mitchell

Princeton University Press, 2025

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"The Unquiet Frontier: Rising Rivals, Vulnerable Allies, and the Crisis of American Power" by Wess Mitchell and Jakob J. Grygiel

Princeton University Press, 2017

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"The Return of the Barbarians: Confronting Non-State Rome from Ancient Actors to the Present" by Jakob J. Grygiel

Cambridge University Press, 2018

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"Great Powers and Geopolitical Change" by Jakob J. Grygiel

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007

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"The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age" by Hal Brands, ed

Princeton University Press, 2023

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"Lessons from the New Cold War" by Hal Brands, ed.

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025

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"War in Ukraine Conflict, Strategy, and the Return of a Fractured World" by Hal Brands, ed.

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024

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"Dilemmas of Brazilian Grand Strategy" by Hal Brands

U.S. Army War College Press, 2010

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"The Spartan Regime: It's Character, Origins, and Grand Strategy" by Paul Rahe

Yale University Press, 2016

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"The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge" by Paul Rahe

Yale University Press, 2015

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"Sparta's Third Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 413-404 B.C." by Paul Rahe

Encounter Books, 2024

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"Sparta's Sicilian Proxy War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 418-413 B.C." by Paul Rahe

Encounter Books, 2023

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"Sparta's Second Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 446-418 B.C." by Paul Rahe

Yale University Press, 2020

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"The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order" by Rush Doshi

Oxford University Press, 2021

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"The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict" by Elbridge A. Colby

Yale University Press, 2021

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"China's Quest for Military Supremacy" by Joel Wuthnow and Philip C. Saunders

Polity Press, 2024

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"Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace" by Edward Luttwak

Harvard Belknap Press, 2002

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"The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire" by Edward Luttwak

Harvard Belknap Press, 2002

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"The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century to the Third" by Edward Luttwak

Rev. and expanded ed. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016

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"The Rise of China vs. the Logic of Strategy" by Edward Luttwak

Harvard Belknap Press, 2012

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"India’s Grand Strategy: History, Theory, Cases" by Kanti Bajpai, Saira Basit, & V. Krishnappa, eds.

Routledge India, 2014

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"Europe's Grand Strategy: Navigating a New World Order" by Bart M.J. Szewcyzk

Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

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