Books:
Hunt, Michael H and Steven I. Levine, Arc of Empire: America’s Wars in Asia from the Philippines to Vietnam. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Iriye, Akira. The Globalizing of America, 1913-1945. Vol. 3 in The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Hahn, Peter L. Crisis and Crossfire: The United States and the Middle East since 1945. Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2005.
McMahon, Robert J. The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Rabe, Stephen G. The Killing Zone: the United States Wages Cold War in Latin America. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.