What to Read After Soft Power
Readers who loved Soft Power by Joseph S. Nye keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Soft Power is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Soft Power
Theory of international politics
Politics among Nations
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Social theory of international politics
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939
Nation and Nationalism
Just and Unjust Wars
The Globalization of World Politics
The Third Wave
Theories of International Relations
The Israel lobby and U.S. foreign policy
Understanding International Conflicts
Man, the state, and war
Power and Interdependence
War and change in world politics
Diplomacy
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Essence of decision
The End of History and the Last Man
On China
The origins of political order
The Grand Chessboard
Perpetual peace, and other essays on politics, history, and morals