- 1968, the world transformed, edited by Carole Fink, Philipp Gassert, and Detlef Junker
- Prisoners of geography, ten maps that tell you everything you need to know about global politics, Tim Marshall ; foreword by Sir John Scarlett
- The revolution in American foreign policy;, its global range, [by] William G. Carleton
- The power of geography, ten maps that reveal the future of our world, Tim Marshall
- Strange days indeed, the 1970s : the golden age of paranoia, Francis Wheen
- The new spymasters, inside the modern world of espionage from the Cold War to global terror, Stephen Grey
- Racing the enemy, Stalin, Truman, and the surrender of Japan, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
- Cold War, an international history, Carole K. Fink, the Ohio State University
- Echoes of violence, letters from a war reporter, Carolin Emcke
- The quest, energy, security and the remaking of the modern world, by Daniel Yergin
- The world, a brief introduction, Richard Haass
- The politics book
- The crisis years, Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963, Michael R. Beschloss
- The world crisis..., by the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill..
- Korea's place in the sun, a modern history, Bruce Cumings
- The border challenge, an insider's view of stopping drugs at America's borders, T. Michael Andrews
- The encyclopedia of the Cold War, a political, social, and military history, Spencer C. Tucker, volume editor
- Thinking about national security, strategy, policy, and issues, Donald M. Snow
- Spiral, trapped in the forever war, Mark Danner
- The war of the world, twentieth-century conflict and the descent of the West, Niall Ferguson
- Globalization and America since 1945, D. Clayton Brown
- Geopolitics, the geography of international relations, Saul Bernard Cohen
- Winning the right war, the path to security for America and the world, Philip H. Gordon
- 21 lessons for the 21st century, Yuval Noah Harari
- Small wars, faraway places, global insurrection and the making of the modern world, 1945-1965, Michael Burleigh
- The Cold War, a new history, John Lewis Gaddis
- Visions of empire, how five imperial regimes shaped the world, Krishan Kumar
- Ten lessons for a post-pandemic world, Fareed Zakaria
- The return of history, conflict, migration, and geopolitics in the twenty-first century, Jennifer Welsh
- No end to war, terrorism in the twenty-first century, Walter Laqueur
- The prize, the epic quest for oil, money, and power, Daniel Yergin
- The deluge, the Great War, America and the remaking of the global order, 1916-1931, Adam Tooze
- The SAGE handbook of political geography, edited by Kevin R. Cox, Murray Low, Jennifer Robinson
- A journey through economic time, a firsthand view, John Kenneth Galbraith
- The Communist world and ours
- The Cold War, Michael F. Hopkins
- The future of mankind, Karl Jaspers ; translated by E.B. Ashton
- The Korean War in world history, edited by William Stueck
- Unshackling America, how the War of 1812 truly ended the American Revolution, Willard Sterne Randall
- Let's split!, a complete guide to separatist movements and aspirant nations, from Abkhazia to Zanzibar, by Christopher F. Roth
- Old myths and new realities, and other commentaries,, by J.W. Fulbright
- Longitudes and attitudes, the world in the age of terrorism, Thomas L. Friedman
- The dark valley, a panorama of the 1930s, Piers Brendon
- A rabble of dead money, the Great Crash and the global depression, 1929-1939, Charles R. Morris
- Open society, reforming global capitalism, George Soros
- Blessed among nations, how the world made America, Eric Rauchway
- A new division of labor, meeting America's security challenges beyond Iraq, Andrew R. Hoehn [and others]
- Countries of the world and their leaders yearbook 2019, [editor, Karen Ellicott]
- Introduction to global politics, Steven L. Lamy, University of Southern California, John S. Masker, Temple University, John Baylis, Swansea University, Steve Smith, University of Exeter, Patricia Owens, University of Sussex
- 1916, a global history, Keith Jeffery