His first book,
The Nuclear Question: The United States and Nuclear Weapons, was published in 1979.
The Economist called it "an excellent history of American nuclear policy... a clear, readable book."
Walter Russell Mead in
The New York Times Book Review, called it a "brilliant book that combines the most lucid exposition yet of the post-cold-war order in Europe with a devastating critique of the Clinton Administration's foreign policy." In 2002, he published
The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy and Free Markets in the Twenty-first Century.
The New York Times Book Review said, "A formidable and thought-provoking tour d'horizon. Best of all, it gives readers something to argue about." in which he argued that US dominance in global affairs is better than the alternatives. In 2010, he wrote ''The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era
, in which he argued that the 2008 financial crisis and economic obligations will redraw the boundaries of US foreign policy. Published in 2011, That Used to Be Us'' addresses four major problems faced by America: globalization, the revolution in information technology, US chronic deficits, and its pattern of energy consumption. ==Bibliography==