Political Theory

53 books

Must-Read 1974

Anarchy State and Utopia

Robert Nozick

Must-Read 1923

Arthashastra

Kautilya

Must-Read 1998

Body of Secrets

James Bamford

Must-Read 1967

Capital, Volume I

Karl Marx

Must-Read 1961

Capital, Volume II

Karl Marx

Must-Read 2022

Capital, Volume III

Karl Marx

Must-Read 1861

Considerations on Representative Government

John Stuart Mill

Must-Read 1835

Democracy in America

Alexis de Tocqueville

Must-Read 1922

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Must-Read 1983

Imagined Communities

Benedict Anderson

Must-Read 2007

Legacy of Ashes

Tim Weiner

Must-Read 1859

On Liberty

John Stuart Mill

Must-Read 1956

On Revolution

Hannah Arendt

Must-Read 2017

On Tyranny

Timothy Snyder

Must-Read 1968

On War

Carl von Clausewitz

Must-Read 2014

Political Order and Political Decay

Francis Fukuyama

Must-Read 1968

Political Order in Changing Societies

Samuel P. Huntington

Must-Read 1791

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Edmund Burke

Must-Read 1689

Second Treatise of Government

John Locke

Must-Read 1998

Seeing Like a State

James C Scott

Must-Read 2008

Spycraft

Robert Wallace & Keith Melton

Must-Read 2012

The Art of Intelligence

Henry Crumpton

Must-Read 1848

The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Must-Read 1976

The Concept of the Political

Carl Schmitt

Must-Read 1963

The Craft of Intelligence

Allen Dulles

Must-Read 1788

The Federalist Papers

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay

Must-Read 1848

The German Ideology

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Must-Read 1999

The Law of Peoples

John Rawls

Must-Read 2011

The Origins of Political Order

Francis Fukuyama

Must-Read 1982

The Puzzle Palace

James Bamford

Must-Read 2008

The Shadow Factory

James Bamford

Must-Read 1749

The Spirit of the Laws

Montesquieu

Must-Read 2012

This Machine Kills Secrets

Andy Greenberg

Must-Read 2020

Twilight of Democracy

Anne Applebaum

Must-Read 1958

Two Concepts of Liberty

Isaiah Berlin

Must-Read 1965

Two Treatises of Government

John Locke

Must-Read 1929

What Is to Be Done?

Vladimir Lenin

Recommended 1994

Black Beauty

Anna Sewell

Recommended 1999

Capital Vol 1

Karl Marx

Recommended 1972

Discourse on Colonialism

Aimé Césaire

Recommended 1531

Discourses on Livy

Niccolò Machiavelli

Recommended 2012

Exit Strategies and State Building

Richard Caplan

Recommended 2009

Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

Michael Sandel

Recommended 1982

Liberalism and the Limits of Justice

Michael Sandel

Recommended 1917

Nationalism

Rabindranath Tagore

Recommended 2016

Necropolitics

Achille Mbembe

Recommended 1891

News from Nowhere

William Morris

Recommended 2000

On the Postcolony

Achille Mbembe

Recommended 1968

Revolution for the Hell of It

Abbie Hoffman

Recommended 1960

The Constitution of Liberty

Friedrich Hayek

Recommended 2014

The Enemy of an Enemy

Zachary Shore

Recommended 2020

The Liberty of Ancients Compared with That of Moderns

Benjamin Constant

Recommended 1941

The Managerial Revolution

James Burnham