The European Empire, published in 2016, is a book by Josep M. Colomer, a professor of Political Economy at Georgetown University. The objective of this book is to discuss the current dilemmas facing Europe, while highlighting the successes and the shortcomings of the European Union (EU).

The Middle East, shrouded in myths that fail to truly grasp its cultural complexity, is a product of the post-colonial world and is plagued with superficial assumptions about its conceptualization as an unstable and violent region. Nathan Thrall, in The Only Language They Understand, and Mohamed-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou, in A Theory of ISIS, attempt to create a cohesive narrative about the Israel-Palestine conflict and about the Islamic State, respectively.

Steven Cook, in his book False Dawn, falls into this trap by asserting that the uprisings during the Arab Spring were inevitably going to fail without fully analyzing the importance of each of the protests to the Arab people and by only truly consulting the perspectives of Washington policymakers, think-tanks, and commentators.