Over the Horizon: Crafting an IR Professional's Reading List

What do policymakers have to read in order to be "informed" on
international affairs? The
question
is more than just a theoretical exercise, as every summer the Patterson
School assigns a reading list to its students. The list has a
twofold purpose: to familiarize students with important issues in international affairs, and to ground
them in the most important recent books on
international politics.