On the Perils of Interventionism

• “The Empire Strikes Out: The ‘New Imperialism' and Its Fatal Flaws” by Ivan Eland (Policy Analysis no. 459, November 26, 2002)
  Lays out objections to an imperial foreign policy.
• Fool's Errands: America 's Recent Encounters with Nation Building by Gary Dempsey and Roger Fontaine ( Washington : Cato, 2001)
  Exposes the folly of the nation building efforts of the 1990s.
• “The Perils of Global Libertarian Utopianism” by Christopher Preble and “Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace” by Ivan Eland (Reason, August 2003: 50-53)
  Argues that foreign adventurism to promote democracy is incompatible with libertarian principles.
• Never Again: Learning from America's Foreign Policy Failures by Earl Ravenal (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1978)
  An excellent treatise on foreign policy from the perspective of the 1970s by an eminent libertarian foreign policy scholar.

On the Philosophical Foundations of Noninterventionism

• "Farewell Address to the Nation” by George Washington (1796)
  Our first president's definitive statement on the need to avoid entangling alliances.
• Omnipotent Government: The Rise of Total State and Total War by Ludwig Von Mises ( New Haven: Yale University Press, 1944)
• Our Enemy the State by Albert Nock ( New York: W. Morrow & Company, 1935)
• The People's Pottage by Garet Garrett (Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Printers, 1953)

On Specific Policy Issues

• Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World by Doug Bandow (Washington: Cato, 1996)
  The single best source on the U.S.-ROK security relationship that also considers the broader implications for U.S. foreign policy in East Asia .
• China 's Future: Constructive Partner or Emerging Threat? edited by Ted Galen Carpenter and James A. Dorn ( Washington : Cato, 2000)
  Considers both the short- and the long-run prospects for the evolution of a peaceful and prosperous “new China ,” after 50 years of communist rule.
• Bad Neighbor Policy: Washington's Futile War on Drugs in Latin America by Ted Galen Carpenter (New York: Palgrave, Macmillan, 2002)
  Shows how the drug war wastes resources and poisons relations between the United States and the states of Central and South America.
• The Captive Press: Foreign Policy Crises and the First Amendment by Ted Galen Carpenter (Washington: Cato, 1995)
  Shows how fear of foreign threats, both real and imagined, have been used as a pretext for violating First Amendment rights.
• Quagmire: America in the Middle East by Leon Hadar (Washington: Cato, 1992)
  Explains how U.S. policies in the Middle East destabilize the region, and imperil American security.

Non-libertarian Critiques of Interventionism

• American Empire : The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy by Andrew J. Bacevich ( Cambridge , MA : Harvard University Press, 2002)
• Crisis and Leviathan by Robert Higgs (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987)
• The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century by Charles A. Kupchan ( New York : Knopf, 2002)
• The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John Mearsheimer ( New York : W.W. Norton, 2001)
• Isolationism Reconfigured: American Foreign Policy for a New Century by Eric Nordlinger (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995)
• U.S. National Defense for the Twenty-First Century: The Grand Exit Strategy by Ed Olsen ( London : Frank Cass, 2002)