Books by FPRI Scholars

How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon

Click here to purchase How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon The first serious book to examine what happens when the ancient boundary... Read more »

The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy: How America’s Civil Religion Betrayed the National Interest

A fierce critique of civil religion as the taproot of America’s bid for global hegemony Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Walter A. McDougall argues powerfully that a pervasive but radically changing... Read more »

Damning Words: The Life and Religious Times of H. L. Mencken

Purchase Damning Words: The Life and Religious Times of H. L. Mencken H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) was a reporter, literary critic, editor, author — and a famous American agnostic in the... Read more »

Legal and Ethical Implications of Drone Warfare

Purchase Legal and Ethical Implications of Drone Warfare  Over the last decade, the U.S., UK Israel and other states have begun to use Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for military operations... Read more »

Communitarian Foreign Policy: Amitai Etzionis Vision

Purchase Communitarian Foreign Policy: Amitai Etzionis Vision This volume establishes Amitai Etzioni’s communitarian approach to international relations as a distinct school of American foreign policy thought. Nikolas K. Gvosdev... Read more »