Here are some reference organized by section for those of us that would like to dive deeper into these topics:
On Zoroastrianism and Iranian Strategic Culture
Mary Boyce, A History of Zoroastrianism (Brill, 1975) — the academic standard on Zoroastrian eschatology
Vali Nasr, The Shia Revival (Norton, 2006) — excellent on how religious identity shapes Iranian strategic behavior
Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei's own published statements on martyrdom doctrine are publicly available and worth citing directly
On Accelerationist Jewish Eschatology / Chabad
Gershom Scholem, Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah (Princeton, 1973) — foundational on messianic accelerationism in Jewish history
Samuel Heilman & Menachem Friedman, The Rebbe (Princeton, 2010) — the most rigorous biography of Schneerson
Yakov Rabkin, A Threat from Within (Zed Books, 2006) — Orthodox Jewish critique of Zionist eschatological politics
On Christian Zionism / Premillennial Dispensationalism
Donald Wagner & Walter Davis, Zionism and the Quest for Justice in the Holy Land (Wipf & Stock, 2014)
John Hagee, Jerusalem Countdown — worth citing as a primary source, it's the movement speaking for itself
Yaakov Ariel, An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of Jewish-Christian Relations (NYU Press, 2022)
On Freemasonry and the Western Esoteric Tradition
Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma (1871) — primary source, publicly available, and directly relevant to the Temple imagery
Manly P. Hall, The Secret Destiny of America (1944) — another primary source that makes the eschatological architecture of American founding mythology explicit
On Islamic Eschatology / Mahdism
David Cook, Contemporary Muslim Apocalyptic Literature (Syracuse, 2005) — the best academic survey
Timothy Furnish, Holiest Wars: Islamic Mahdis, Their Jihads, and Osama bin Laden (Praeger, 2005)
For Shia specifically, Abdulaziz Sachedina, Islamic Messianism (SUNY Press, 1981)
On the Third Rome / Russian Orthodox Eschatology
Duncan Bell & Iain MacKenzie (eds.), Victorian Visions of Global Order has useful context
Nikolai Berdyaev, The Russian Idea (1947) — a Russian philosopher explaining the messianic logic of Russian civilization from the inside
Alexander Dugin's The Fourth Political Theory — controversial but directly relevant as a living articulation of Russian eschatological nationalism. Primary source.
On the War of Gog and Magog
Jon Levenson, Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel (Yale, 2006)
Joel Richardson, Mideast Beast — argued from a Christian Zionist perspective, worth citing as a primary source for how that tradition interprets Gog/Magog geographically
On Game Theory and Coordination
Robert Axelrod, The Evolution of Cooperation (Basic Books, 1984) — the academic foundation for understanding why coordination beats mass
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens (Harper, 2015) — the "shared myths" chapter is essentially a mainstream version of the eschatology-as-coordination-mechanism argument and would be immediately familiar to most readers
On the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Temple Mount
Gershom Gorenberg, The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount (Oxford, 2002) — probably the single best book on this specific topic, documents the various groups planning the mosque's destruction
Karen Armstrong, Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths (Ballantine, 1996)
On the GCC's Strategic Vulnerability
The Chatham House and Carnegie Endowment have published extensively on GCC dependence on US security guarantees — specific reports from 2022-2024 would be worth searching
The two I'd most strongly recommend prioritizing are Gorenberg's The End of Days as it directly supports the third point about The Destruction of the Al-Aqsa Mosque with documented evidence, and Dugin's The Fourth Political Theory, that illustrate the Russian Orthodox eschatological argument in the voice of someone who actually believes it and has Kremlin proximity.
Here are some reference organized by section for those of us that would like to dive deeper into these topics:
On Zoroastrianism and Iranian Strategic Culture
On Accelerationist Jewish Eschatology / Chabad
On Christian Zionism / Premillennial Dispensationalism
On Freemasonry and the Western Esoteric Tradition
On Islamic Eschatology / Mahdism
On the Third Rome / Russian Orthodox Eschatology
On the War of Gog and Magog
On Game Theory and Coordination
On the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Temple Mount
On the GCC's Strategic Vulnerability
The two I'd most strongly recommend prioritizing are Gorenberg's The End of Days as it directly supports the third point about The Destruction of the Al-Aqsa Mosque with documented evidence, and Dugin's The Fourth Political Theory, that illustrate the Russian Orthodox eschatological argument in the voice of someone who actually believes it and has Kremlin proximity.