The good, the bad, and the ugly of our security studies reading lists....

From the episode:

The meta-writers:

• Empires Without Imperialism: Anglo-American Decline and the Politics of Deflection by Jeanne Morefield
• How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr
• The Atlantic Realists: Empire and International Political Thought Between Germany and the United States by Matthew Specter

The bad:

• Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power by Niall Ferguson
• The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror by Michael Ignatieff
• The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century by Robert D. Kaplan
• Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning by Nigel Biggar
• Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq by Melvyn Leffler

The good:

• Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David van Reybrouck
• Congo: The Epic History of a People by van Reybrouck
• King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
• Culture and Imperialism + Orientalism by Edward Said (amongst many others)
• Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces by Radley Balko
• The Wretched of the Earth + Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
• Primitive Rebels + On History by Eric Hobsbawm
• Uncivil War: The British Army and The Troubles, 1966-1975 by Huw Bennett
• Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life by Richard Beck
• One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad