General
M. Curtis, ed., Introduction to Comparative Politics (1985)
P. Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1987)
R. Macridis and B. Brown, eds., Comparative Politics: Notes and Readings (1996)
S. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)

Great Britain
F.N. Forman, Mastering British Politics
A. Giddens, The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy (1998)
P. Madgwick, Britain Since 1945
P. Riddell, The Thatcher Decade (1989)
L. Robins and B. Jones, Debates in British Politics Today (2000)

Germany
G. Goldman, The German Political System
A. Gerschenkron, Bread and Democracy in Germany (1989)
G. Eley, Reshaping the German Right: Radical Nationalism & Political Change after Bismarck (1980)

Japan
P. Bailey, Postwar Japan 1945 to the Present (1996)
P. Herzog, Japan's Pseudo-Democracy (1993)
S. Ishihara, The Japan That Can Say No (1991)
P. Jain, ed., Japanese Politics Today: Beyond Karaoke Democracy? (1997)
B. Richardson, Japanese Democracy (1997)

India
P. Chatterjee, State Politics in India (1997)
S. Amartya, Economic Development and Social Opportunity (1995)
A. Kohli, The State and Poverty in India: The Politics of Reform (1987)

Mexico
M. Cook, The Politics of Economic Restructuring in Mexico (1994)
M. Meyer, The Course of Mexican History (1995)
R. Roett, The Challenge of Institutional Reform in Mexico (1994)

Russia
L. Cook, The Soviet Social Contract and Why It Failed (1993)
M. Fish, Democracy from Scratch: Opposition and Regime in the New Russian Federation (1995)
J. Hazard, The Soviet System of Government
H. Smith, The Russians

China
W. van Kemenade, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Inc.: The Dynamics of a New Empire (1997)
N. Kristoff and S. Wudunn, China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power (1994)
Z. Liang, The Tiananmen Papers
O. Schell, Mandate of Heaven: The Legacy of Tiananmen Square (1994)

Iran
E. Abrahamian, Khomeinism (1993)
S. Bakash, Reign of the Ayatollahs (1984)
H. Chehabi, Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism (1990)
J. Esposito, The Iranian Revolution: Its Global Impact (1990)
A. Rahema, Iran After the Revolution (1995)

Globalization/Third World
R. Barnet and J. Cavanagh, Global Dreams: Imperial Corporations and the New World Order (1994)
R. Barnet, Intervention and Revolution (1972)
D. Korten, When Corporations Rule the World (1995)
W. LaFeber, Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America (1984)
D. Rodrik, Has Globalization Gone Too Far? (1997)
R. Schaeffer, Understanding Globalization (1997)