ITT: Name the best political science book that you've ever read

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What was your research paper on? I'm a political science undergrad looking at post-grad plans but I need to find a good mentor interested in cultural theories and one that isn't focused on quantitative research methods like the majority of the few professors in my department.

The Man On Horseback - Finer

It's a rare pleasure when an entire field of political science (in this case, civil-military relations) can just be captured by reading a single book. Written in the 60's and still good today.

I'm also a fan of a lot of Arendt's work.

I cant help but feel that Huntington sort of fudges parts of it. He uses balance of power thinking alongside ethnic divides and it leads to some weird outcomes. One thing that seemed particularly odd to me was his views on how the asian peoples will align themselves. It doesn't really take into account the finer nuances of his 'Confucian' cultures, such as the enmity between Koreans, Chinese, and Japanese - or how/why the Confucians will automatically oppose the west.

A second argument can be raised according to our current politics today, and how 'western civilization' features the US seemingly breaking ranks to join with the orthodox sphere.

Anyway, neat read, worth the time for sure.

lel, if trump staff members don't want to get fired, they should just put all of their complaints within books. Problem solved.

I think the US is becoming a "cleft country" to use his terms. He had some very unequivocal warnings about immigration and multiculturalism and what that could do to. Or it could also be described as a "torn country" where the ruling elite want to make nice with Russia but a majority of citizens don't.

That's true, and I suppose I'm being a little flippant with his position. It just seems that, like any system of political theory, it begins to lose some degree of coherency when it requires the introduction of so many confounding parts (like elite theory, for instance.)

Anyway, thank you for posting, I'll probably re-read the piece eventually

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He already kinda admitted it on "Our Posthuman Future"

My diary.

Reflections on the Revolution in France.

>Tfw Burke keeps being proven more and more right with every year of my life

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The Dictator's Handbook is the ultimate red pill and I mean that as unirronically as possible. It is a well put together and thorough explanation of why the utopian dream of millenials cannot and will never be realized.

Funny how I am not even remotely sympathetic (well, maybe 'remotely') to the two titles that come to mind when 'the best' is what's at stake. Even more seductive than Shaw's glib socialism, or Chesterton's Orthodoxy, is de Maistre's frighteningly competent papal fascism. The work is the St. Petersburg Dialogues. This is closely seconded by Lord Acton's Essays. Because this is lit and not pol I suppose it is ok to be seduced by raw verbal power.

Trinity sanctified.
trips checked

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The Capital by Charles Marks, check it out

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Huntington

Politics by Aristotle

Pleb here, what is the best introduction to political science?

seconding this one

fuck this anarcho-hedonist bullshit

/pol/

This

>The Origins of Political Order
>Political Order and Political Decay

Gentle Intro to Unqualified Reservations

>inb4 muh nrx
Stay mad

/nigger/

This picture makes Fukuyama look like the stereotypical villain in older movies.

Can some give me the basic Gestalt on this book? Or have none of you read it yet?

The Machiavellians - James Burnham

xD drumpf is dum dum

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>It is another episode where the leftists go on suicide watch.

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Leo Strauss wrote a really good introduction to mainstream liberal (not in the burger sense) political theory.
If you want primary sources read Plato, Aristotle, Macchiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Tocqueville in that order.

For Marxist political theory 18th Brumaire and Civil War in France by Marx, Origin of the Property, Family and the State by Engels and State and Revolution by Lenin.

For fascist political theory I can recommend Zeev Sternhell's The Birth of Fascist Ideology. There are few primary sources, mainly The Doctrine of Fascism by Gentile and De Rivera's writings.

REEEE LEO STRAUSS WAS A NEOCON

REEE MARX WAS A MARXIST.

Homage to Catalonia

Great answer.
>gives you a good overview of what a low-technics war really is
>gives you the truth about russian communism
>tells you just how schizophrenic partisan media is
The political understanding of a lot of people nowadays would benefit immensely from reading it.

>low-technics war

what that mean??

A war that is fought by sides with little in the way of industrial infrastructure and rely in great measure in external help and money to get armaments, and severly lack things like modern planes and modern vehicles in general. The Syrian War nowadays is a very good example of this.

*severely
fix'd

My friend keeps reading books about anarcho capitalism, any book that goes against this?

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Germs, Guns, and Steel

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what the hell?