Michael est l’auteur de 17 livres, dont le plus récent est Terre de nos aïeux, publié en avril 2009.
Essais
- True Patriot Love (2009)
- American Exceptionalism and Human Rights (ed.) (2005)
- The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror (2004)
- Kaboul-Sarajevo : les nouvelles frontières de l’empire (2003)
- Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (2001)
- La Révolution des droits (2000)
- Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond (2000)
- Isaiah Berlin: A Life (1998)
- L’Honneur du guerrier : guerre éthnique et conscience moderne (1998)
- Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism (1995)
- L’ Album russe (1987)
- Wealth and Virtue: The Shaping of Classical Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment (1986)
- La Liberté d’être humain : essai sur le désir et le besoin (1984)
- A Just Measure of Pain: Penitentiaries in the Industrial Revolution, 1780-1850, (1978)
Romans
- Charlie Johnson in the Flames: A Novel (2003)
- Scar Tissue (1993)
- Asya (1991)
Articles en vedette & textes d’opinion
- With these Games, Canada has made a statement to itself 2010
- Winter Wonder Brand (2010)
- Common Sense to the Rescue of Policy (2009)
- The Broken Contract (2005)
- Iranian lessons (2005)
- When a bridge is not a bridge (2002)


