The Library
A Library of International Relations and American Foreign Policy
Books gathered over a life of teaching and writing, photographed shelf by shelf and open for exploration.
How this library came to be
This library represents the accumulated results of a half century of scholarship.
Today the collection holds roughly 4,000 volumes. I have photographed and cataloged the shelves, hoping to make the books useful to readers and help the collection find an institutional home.
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The opening shelves
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Shelf 50 · 16 catalog entriesBooks that have been especially important to me in thinking about international relations and American foreign policy.View photograph and books →
Shelf 51 · 20 catalog entriesInternational society, American power, and the moral questions posed by war.View photograph and books →
Shelf 52 · 16 catalog entriesInternational theory, diplomacy, and questions of order and justice.View photograph and books →
Shelf 53 · 18 catalog entriesSovereignty, international order, and some enduring arguments about American power.View photograph and books →
Shelf 54 · 20 catalog entriesInternational systems, political thought, and the study of foreign affairs.View photograph and books →
Shelf 60 · 28 catalog entriesRealism and its critics in the history of international thought.View photograph and books →
Shelf 1 · 20 catalog entriesNatural law, the law of nations, and the history of international thought.View photograph and books →The American Founding
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The Turkish rug in front of the shelves gives the scene a slightly devotional air. It recalls Fouad Ajami’s observation, after reading the manuscript of The Imperial Temptation, that my reverence for the American Founders reminded him of the Shia clerics he had known in Lebanon. This was not a compliment.
Shelf 200 · 17 catalog entriesHamilton, Madison, Adams, and the framing of the Constitution.View photograph and books →
Shelf 201 · 24 catalog entriesThe Revolution, the Federalist, and the politics of the early republic.View photograph and books →
Shelf 202 · 24 catalog entriesThe founders and their arguments about republican government.View photograph and books →
Shelf 203 · 19 catalog entriesFederalists, anti-Federalists, and the ideas behind the founding.View photograph and books →
Shelf 204 · 25 catalog entriesRevolutionary writings and interpretations of the American founding.View photograph and books →
Shelf 205 · 29 catalog entriesConstitutional development, Jefferson, and the founding settlement.View photograph and books →
Shelf 206 · 22 catalog entriesFounding figures, finance, and the contest over democracy.View photograph and books →
Shelf 207 · 23 catalog entriesThe Revolution, party struggle, and the founding generation.View photograph and books →
Shelf 208 · 17 catalog entriesSlavery, constitutionalism, and the new American nation.View photograph and books →
Shelf 209 · 24 catalog entriesHamilton, Jefferson, anti-Federalism, and interpretations of the Revolution.View photograph and books →The lists reflect a working catalog. I will correct and add entries as I revisit the shelves.