TVC Chairman Elliott Abrams | 2024

Bottom Line: National surveys show hundreds of thousands of children with one, or even two, Jewish parents not being raised as Jews by religion or to think of themselves as members of the Jewish community, and that young American Jews are far less engaged with and supportive of Israel than their parents’ and grandparents’ generations. If You Will It looks at the history of the American Jewish community and its relationship with Israel, and explains to Jewish parents, donors, and organizations how Jewish education, Jewish summer camping, and time spent in Israel can revive and strengthen Jewish identity. Purchase your copy here.

TVC Advisory Board Member Zack Cooper | 2025

Bottom Line: Tides of Fortune examines the paths of six great powers of the twentieth century, tracking how national leaders adjusted their defense objectives, strategies, and investments in response to perceived shifts in relative power. All these militaries followed a common pattern, and their experiences shed new light on both China’s recent military modernization and America’s potential responses. Purchase your copy here.

TVC Advisory Board Member Michael Sobolik | 2024

Bottom Line: The United States is in the midst of a new cold war with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and America is losing. Officials in Washington are reacting to the CCP and playing defense. Like America’s efforts to contain the Soviet Union in the twentieth-century Cold War, the United States needs a strategic vision to overcome the CCP. Countering China's Great Game offers a plan for American victory over the CCP and presents a roadmap to sabotage the crux of the CCP’s foreign policy: the Belt and Road Initiative. Purchase your copy here.

TVC Advisory Board Member Rebeccah Heinrichs | 2024

Bottom Line: Can the United States have a modern nuclear deterrence strategy that complies with the Just War Doctrine (JWD)? Duty to Deter concludes that the answer is yes, and that as the United States has sought to increase the credibility of its deterrent over decades, it has moved in better alignment with the JWD. In today’s cold war the United States must maintain the strategy, adapt its nuclear posture, and add better defenses. Purchase your copy here.

TVC Advisory Board Member Richard Outzen | 2025

Bottom Line: Why has the United States so often failed to translate its unmatched power into durable global influence? U.S. Coercive Diplomacy and the Global Order offers a timely and incisive assessment of U.S. foreign policy from 1990 to 2020, focusing on coercive diplomacy-state actions short of war intended to compel or deter adversaries. Particularly, this book traces how the US increasingly relied on pressure tactics such as sanctions, military threats, and diplomatic isolation, often with disappointing results. Purchase your copy here.

TVC Advisory Board Member Victor Cha | 2024

Bottom Line: North Korea is commonly thought of as the most mysterious place in the world. The country is marked by its opacity and inaccessibility, its inner workings seen as impossible for outsiders to grasp. The Black Box demonstrates convincingly that North Korea, while far from transparent, is less inscrutable than is typically assumed. Purchase your copy here.

TVC Governance Board Member John Hillen | 2025

Bottom Line: What does it mean to think strategically? How do I set the right direction for my organization? And how can I turn strategic aspirations into reality? The Strategy Dialogues allows readers to eavesdrop on a series of strategy workshops and conversations, offering a front-row seat to witness the basic tools of strategic thinking applied to real-world organizational challenges. Purchase your copy here.

Israel & the Middle East

Elliott Abrams: Realism and Democracy: American Foreign Policy After the Arab Spring (2017) | If You Will It: Rebuilding Jewish Peoplehood for the 21st Century (2024)

Peter Berkowitz: Explaining Israel: The Jewish State, the Middle East, and America (forthcoming September 2025)

Amb. Eric Edelman & Ray Takeyh: Revolution and Aftermath: Forging a New Strategy toward Iran (2018)

Paul Kapur: Jihad as Grand Strategy: Islamist Militancy, National Security, and the Pakistani State (2016)

Joel Rayburn: The U.S. Army in the Iraq War (2019)

Ray Takeyh: (with Steven Simon) The Pragmatic Superpower: Winning the Cold War in the Middle East (2016) | The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty (2021)

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Defense & Homeland Security

Michael Allen: Blinking Red: Crisis and Compromise in American Intelligence after 9/11 (2016)

Chris Brose: The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare (2020)

Colin Dueck: Age of Iron: On Conservative Nationalism (2019)

Peter Feaver: Thanks for Your Service: The Causes and Consequences of Public Confidence in the U.S. Military (2023)

Rebeccah Heinrichs: Duty to Deter: American Nuclear Deterrence and the Just War Doctrine (2024)

Seth Jones: Waging Insurgent Warfare (2016)

Matthew Kroenig: The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy: Why Strategic Superiority Matters (2018)

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Indo-Pacific

Michael Auslin: Asia's New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific (2020)

Victor Cha: Powerplay: The Origins of the American Alliance System in Asia (2018) | Korea: A New History of South and North (2023) | The Black Box: Demystifying the Study of Korean Unification and North Korea (2024)

Zack Cooper: Tides of Fortune: The Rise and Decline of Great Militaries (2025)

Richard Fontaine: (with Robert Blackwill) Lost Decade: The U.S. Pivot to Asia and the Rise of Chinese Power (2024)

Christopher Ford: China Looks at the West: Identity, Global Ambitions, and the Future of Sino-American Relations (2015)

Aaron Friedberg: Getting China Wrong (2022)

Michael Green: By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783 (2017) | Line of Advantage: Japan’s Grand Strategy in the Era of Abe Shinzō (2022)

Matthew Kroenig: We Win, They Lose: Republican Foreign Policy and the New Cold War (with Dan Negrea) (2024)

Michael Pillsbury: The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower (2015)

Matt Pottinger: (editor) The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan (2024)

Michael Sobolik: Countering China's Great Game: A Strategy for American Dominance (2024)

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Europe & Eurasia

Michael Auslin: The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region (2017)

Amb. Paula Dobriansky: Engaging Russia: A Return to Containment? (2015)

Seth Jones: A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland (2018)

David J. Kramer: Back to Containment: Dealing with Putin’s Regime (2017)

Amb. John Sullivan: Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia’s War Against the West (2024)

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Western Hemisphere

R. Evan Ellis: Transnational Organized Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean (2018) | China Engages Latin America: Distorting Development and Democracy? (2022)

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Africa

Aleksandra Gadzala Tirziu: China and Africa: How Africans and their Governments are Shaping Relations with China (editor) (2015)

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Grand Strategy

Colin Dueck: The Obama Doctrine: American Grand Strategy Today (2015)

Peter Feaver: Strategic Retrenchment and Renewal in the American Experience (2015)

Will Inboden: The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink (2022)

Matthew Kroenig: The Return of Great Power Rivalry: Democracy versus Autocracy from the Ancient World to the U.S. and China (2020)

Henry R. Nau: Perspectives on International Relations: Power, Institutions, and Ideas (2016)

Daniel Runde: The American Imperative: Reclaiming Global Leadership through Soft Power (2023)

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Additional Reading

John Hillen: (with Mark Nevins) What Happens Now? Reinvent Yourself as a Leader Before Your Business Outruns You (2018) | The Strategy Dialogues: A Primer on Business Strategy and Strategic Management (2025)

Kim Holmes: The Closing of the Liberal Mind: How Groupthink and Intolerance Define the Left (2016)

F. Scott Kieff: (editor) Perspectives on Commercializing Innovation (2015)