Ranked: Why Conflict Occurs And How To Resolve Them?

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: Why Conflict Occurs And How To Resolve Them?


  1. Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua
  2. Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco
  3. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
  4. A Philosophy of Evil by Lars Svendsen
  5. War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
  6. Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by Brian Klaas
  7. The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr
  8. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson
  9. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
  10. The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good by Robert H. Frank
  11. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
  12. The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America by Verlan Lewis, Hyrum Lewis
  13. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall
  14. Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
  15. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
  16. [Upcoming] An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
  17. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
  18. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
  19. The Second Stage by Betty Friedan
  20. Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba
  21. The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society by Debra Soh
  22. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
  23. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
  24. Race And Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell
  25. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
  26. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
  27. Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
  28. A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
  29. My Two Chinas: The Memoir of a Chinese Counterrevolutionary by Baiqiao Tang
  30. Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
  31. Hot Buttons: How to Resolve Conflict and Cool Everyone Down by Sybil Evans, Sherry Suib Cohen
  32. Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire by John Man
  33. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
  34. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
  35. Hybrid Warfare: The Russian Approach to Strategic Competition & Conventional Military Conflict by Curtis L. Fox
  36. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
  37. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
  38. The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
  39. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
  40. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan
  41. Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
  42. The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
  43. Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein
  44. Forgotten Capitals and the Historical Lessons They Teach by Derek Dwight Anderson
  45. Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  46. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
  47. Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger by Peter Bevelin
  48. Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule by Tsering Woeser
  49. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
  50. The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World by Stewart Patrick
  51. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
  52. The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality by Katharina Pistor
  53. Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women's Rights by Helen Joyce
  54. The Secret Network of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things-- Stories from Science and Observation by Peter Wohlleben
  55. Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong
  56. The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland by Shlomo Sand
  57. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
  58. The Possibility Principle: How Quantum Physics Can Improve the Way You Think, Live, and Love by Mel Schwartz
  59. The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau
  60. The New Chinese Empire: And What It Means For The United States by Ross Terrill
  61. Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach
  62. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
  63. Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming by McKenzie Funk
  64. Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump by Joseph E. Stiglitz
  65. The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann
  66. Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship Is Poisoning the U.S. House of Representatives by Juliet Eilperin
  67. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
  68. A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin
  69. Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry
  70. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
  71. When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
  72. 1789: The Threshold of the Modern Age by David Andress
  73. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
  74. A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich
  75. Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns
  76. Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz
  77. Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Peter Godfrey-Smith
  78. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  79. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  80. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  81. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
  82. Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek
  83. Indonesia, Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation by Elizabeth Pisani
  84. The Mandela Revolution: A British Soldier's Inside View of His Rise to Power by Huw Lawford
  85. The Perdiccas Years, 323–320 BC: Alexander's Successors at War by Tristan Hughes
  86. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville
  87. Black Sea by Neal Ascherson
  88. The Battle of the Little Bighorn: A Good Day To Die by Francis Hayes

Fiction
  1. Berlin by Jason Lutes
  2. [Upcoming] The Schopenhauer Cure: A Novel by Irvin Yalom
  3. The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu (The Three-Body Problem Series)
  4. Death's End by Cixin Liu (The Three-Body Problem Series)
  5. A Voracious Grief by Lindsey Lamh
  6. Elektra by Jennifer Saint