Michael is the author of 17 books, most recently True Patriot Love, published in April 2009.
Non-fiction
- True Patriot Love (2009)
- American Exceptionalism and Human Rights (ed.) (2005)
- The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror (2004)
- Empire Lite: Nation-Building in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan (2003)
- Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (2001)
- The Rights Revolution (2000)
- Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond (2000)
- Isaiah Berlin: A Life (1998)
- The Warrior’s Honour: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience (1998)
- Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism (1995)
- The Russian Album (1987)
- Wealth and Virtue: The Shaping of Classical Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment (1986)
- The Needs of Strangers (1984)
- A Just Measure of Pain: Penitentiaries in the Industrial Revolution, 1780-1850, (1978)
Fiction
- Charlie Johnson in the Flames: A Novel (2003)
- Scar Tissue (1993)
- Asya (1991)
Featured articles & opinion pieces
- 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)


