INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Books

• The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behaviour Is Almost Always Good
• Women, Culture, and International Relations
• The Post Colonial Studies Reader
• Why Nations Fail
• The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
• Diplomacy
• World Politics: Progress and its Limits
• An International History of the 20th Century and Beyond
• Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy
• Geopolitcs: A Very Short Introduction
• International Relations: A Very Short Introduction
• Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction
• Dead Aid
• The Globalisation of World Politics
• How Not To War
• How States Think
• Prisoners of Geography
• Power of Geography
• The Clash of Civilisations and the New World Order
• The Revenge of Geography

Lectures and talks

• History Taster Lecture – Butchers of the Revolution
• The Black Death – Gresham College Lecture
• Waterloo: Causes, Courses, and Consequences – Gresham College Lecture
• The Suez Crisis of 1956 – Gresham College Lecture
• The Astronomer and The Witch: Kepler’s Mother – Gresham College Lecture
• Witch-Hunting in European and World History – Gresham College Lecture
• How The British Used Opium To Cripple an Ancient Superpower: Empires of Silver
• The Real Impact of The Silk Road
• How Bread Built Civilisation: From the First Farmers to the Modern Factory
• Mongolia: Rise and Fall of an Empire
• The Aztecs – Lecture
• The Entire History of the Maya

Podcasts

• BBC World Service

Websites

• Royal Anthropological Institute — news, resources, and lecture archive.

• OpenLearn Anthropology Hub — free readings and learning modules.

Competitions