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 Rec ...