The following publications project challenges facing the world community in the present and in the near future:

Heiberg, Marianne, Prendan O’Leary, and John Tirman, eds. Terror, Insurgency, and the State: Ending Protracted Conflicts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.

Holmes, Jennifer S. Terrorism and Democratic Stability Revisited. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2008.

The following publications are an eclectic assortment of recommendations that provide classic—and arguably timeless—insight into the nature of dissident resistance, ideologies of liberty, state manipulation, and revolution.

Hamilton, Alexander, John Jay, and James Madison. The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States. New York: Modern Library, 1937.

Koestler, Arthur. Darkness at Noon. New York: Macmillan, 1963.

Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. Edited by David Spitz. New York: Norton, 1975.

Moore, Barrington, Jr. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World. Boston: Beacon, 1966.

Orwell, George. Animal Farm. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1946.