1. Allison, G. (2012, August 21). Thucydides trap has been sprung in the Pacific. Financial Times. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/5d695b5a-ead3-11e1-984b-00144feab49a.html#axzz3nnYmyM2W
2. Anderson, J. J., Ikenberry, G. J., & Risse, T. (Eds.). (2008). The end of the West? Crisis and change in the Atlantic order. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
3. Bacevich, A. (2009). The limits of power: The end of American exceptionalism. New York: Holt.
4. Balfour, R., & Carta, C. (Eds.). (2015). The European external action service and national foreign ministries: Convergence or divergence? Farnham: Ashgate.
5. Bandow, D. (2012). Strategic restraint in the near seas. Orbis, 56(3), 486–502.