•
The Rules of the Game (1960 Doubleday) – a novel •
Conflict in the Middle East (1969 H. W. Wilson Company) – causes and consequences of the 1967 Six-Day War •
A World Elsewhere: the new American foreign policy (1973 Scribner) () •
Atlantis Lost: United States-European Relation After the Cold War (James Chace, co-editor with Earl C. Ravenal) (1976 UP) •
Solvency, the Price of Survival: An essay on American foreign policy (1981 Random House) •
Endless War: How We Got Involved in Central America-And What Can Be Done (1984 Vintage Books) () •
America Invulnerable: The Quest for Absolute Security from 1812 to Star Wars (1988 Summit) (by James Chace with
Caleb Carr) •
What We Had: A Memoir (1990 Summit Books) •
The Consequences of the Peace: The New Internationalism and American Foreign Policy (1993 Oxford) •
Acheson: The Secretary Of State Who Created The American World (1998 Simon & Schuster) •
What If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (2001 Putnam) (by
Robert Cowley, James Chace and
John Lukacs) •
1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs-The Election that Changed the Country (2004 Simon & Schuster, Inc.) •
Booknotes on American Character: people, politics, and conflict in American history (2004 Perseus Press) (contributor) ==References==