Carter Worried Bilateral Israel-Egypt Deal Would Undermine Regional Peace, a book review and critique by As'ad Abu Khalil of US collaboration with the Sadat regime as told by Carter-fan Stuart Eizenstat. Might buy this one, but still searching for a companion volume.

And Pepe Escobar's SWOT assessments for US and Iran commitments to hostilities War on Iran & Calling America's Bluff. (Escobar doesn't use the term SWOT, and yella sheet press tenders lofty principles of national security, but the scheme usually ends with profit (loss) calculation.)

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.