I'm taking four classes this semester, and thought I might as well post my collected reading lists for them in lieu of more detailed commentary at this time since it's getting on rather late. If there's an Amazon account you'd like me to link through, I'll go back and edit this entry tomorrow with the appropriate links, but for now here's the list:

(IR 320) The American Military Experience with Professor Andrew Bacevich

- Readings in American Military History by James M. Morris
- For the Common Defense (Revised and Expanded Edition) by Allan R. Millet and Peter Maslowski
- America's Longest War (4th Edition) by George C. Herring

(IR 370) China: From Revolution to Reform with Professor Joseph Fewsmith

- China: A New History by John K. Fairbank and Merle Goldman
- Mao's China and After (3rd Edition) by Maurice Meisner
- An Intellectual History of Modern China by Merle Goldman and Lee Ou-fan Lee

(IR 579) Japanese Foreign Policy and World Politics with Professor Thomas Berger

- No More Bashing: Building A New US-Japanese Partnership by Fred Bergsten et. al
- Alignment Despite Antagonism: The United States-Japan-South Korea Security Triangle by Victor Cha
- The US-Japanese Alliance: Past, Present, and Future by Patrick Cronin and Michael Green, eds.
- Japan's Reluctant Realism: Foreign Policy Changes in a Era of Uncertain Power by Michael Green
- Beyond Bilateralism: US-Japan Relations in the New Asia-Pacific by Ellis S. Krauss and T.J. Pempel
- The Clash: US-Japanese Relations Throughout History by Walter LaFeber

(IR 586) Islam in South Asian Politics with Professor Hussain Haqqani (who is new to the university just this year, and who has taken the unusual step of giving us a variety of recommended readings on a range of core topics and let us choose which books under each topic we'd like to read; below are the choices I've ordered from Amazon, though I'd like to eventually check out the rest)

- Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong
- Ghost Wars by Steve Coll
- Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam by John Esposito
- Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam by Gilles Kepel
- Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism by Ahmed Rashid
- Liberty or Death - India's Journey to Independence and Dvision by Patrick French