Please see the curated list of sources below for research and reporting that has shaped my thinking on the international politics and diplomacy, including the history of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.

Chinese Politics / “Rise of China”

• Doshi, Rush. The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order. Oxford University Press, 2021.

• Wallace, Jeremy L. Seeking truth and hiding facts: Information, ideology, and authoritarianism in China. Oxford University Press, 2023.

• Weiss, Jessica Chen. Powerful patriots: nationalist protest in China's foreign relations. Oxford University Press, 2014.

Christian Zionism

• Burge, Gary M. Whose Land? Whose Promise?:: What Christians Are Not Being Told about Israel and the Palestinians (Revised). Cleveland, OH: The Pilgrim Press, 2013.

• Burge, Gary M. Jesus and the Land: the New Testament challenge to “Holy Land” theology. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2010.

• McDermott, Gerald R., ed. The New Christian Zionism: Fresh Perspectives on Israel and the Land. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2016.

• Mead, Walter Russell. The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People. New York: Knopf, 2022.

• Documentaries: Hope in the Holy Land (2021), Little Town of Bethlehem (2010), With God on Our Side (2010)

Israel–Palestine Conflict

• Documentaries: “The Israel-Palestine conflict: a brief, simple history” (Vox Media, 2016); “Failure at the Fence” (PBS Frontline, 12/19/2023).

• Barnett, Michael, Nathan J. Brown, Marc Lynch, and Shibley Telhami, eds. The One State Reality: What is Israel/Palestine? Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023.

• Gelvin, James L. The Israel-Palestine Conflict: A History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

• Khalidi, Rashid. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A history of settler colonialism and resistance, 1917–2017. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2020.

• Lustick, Ian S. Paradigm Lost: From two-state solution to one-state reality. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.

• Morris, Benny. Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab conflict, 1881-1998. New York: Vintage, 2001.

• Pressman, Jeremy. The Sword is Not Enough: Arabs, Israelis, and the Limits of Military Force. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2020.

• Waxman, Dov. The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know®. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.

U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East

• Coll, Steve. Ghost Wars: The secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden. New York: Penguin UK, 2005.

• Kinzer, Stephen. All the Shah's Men: An American coup and the roots of Middle East terror. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2008.

• Kurtzer, Daniel C., Scott B. Lasensky, William B. Quandt, Steven L. Spiegel, and Shibley Telhami. The Peace Puzzle: America's Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace, 1989–2011. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012.

• Lynch, Marc. The New Arab Wars: Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East. New York: Public Affairs: 2016.

• Mearsheimer, John J., and Stephen Walt. The Israel Lobby. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2007.

• Ross, Dennis. Doomed to Succeed: The US-Israel relationship from Truman to Obama. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016.