Patterson School Summer Reading List 2026

May 6, 2026

The Patterson School has chosen the following texts for our summer reading this year:

Raj Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff. 2024. Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley are Transforming the Future of War.

David Shambaugh. 2025. Breaking the Engagement: How China Won and Lost America.

Ernest Scheyder. 2024. The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives.

Monica Duffy Toft and Sidita Kushi. 2023. Dying by the Sword: The Militarization of US Foreign Policy.

Sven Beckert. 2025. Capitalism: A Global History.

Edward Fishman. 2025. Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare.

Vali Nasr. 2025. Iran's Grand Strategy: A Political History.

Anne Applebaum. 2024. Autocracy Inc: the Dictators Who Want to Run the World.

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