Cargando…
Political journeys : the openDemocracy essays /
"One of the great contrarians of international relations scholarship, Fred Halliday was able to combine his understanding of the broad sweep of modern history with a profound knowledge of modern revolutions, the Middle East, and national movements. This collection of Halliday's political e...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Otros Autores: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
New Haven, Conn. :
Yale University Press,
2012.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- Preface
- ONE: POINTS OF DEPARTURE
- 1. Lessons from Ireland
- 2. 1968: The Global Legacy
- 3. What was Communism?
- 4. A Lunch with Mario Soares
- 5. The Forward March of Women Halted?
- 6. Feminism in the Middle East: Two Pioneers
- TWO: SHADOWS OF COLD WAR
- 1. The Age of the Three Dustbins
- 2. Looking Back on Saddam Hussein
- 3. Cold War Assassinations: Solved and Unsolved
- 4. A Conversation in Havana
- 5. Boadicea in the South Atlantic: The Legacies of Margaret Thatcher
- 6. The Vagaries of �Anti-Imperalism�: The Left and Jihad7. The Dominican Republic: In Search of a �National Hero�
- THREE: CHALLENGES OF THE MIDDLE EAST
- 1. Crises of the Middle East: 1914, 1967, 2003
- 2. America and the Arab World after Saddam
- 3. Al Jazeera: A Matchbox that Roared
- 4. Yemen: Murder in Arabia Felix
- 5. Navigating Mare Nostrum: The Barcelona Process after Ten Years
- 6. In an Unholy Place: Letter from Jerusalem
- 7. Lebanon, Israel and the �Greater West Asian Crisis�
- 8. Maxime Rodinson: In Praise of a �Marginal Man�
- FOUR: IRAN: REVOLUTION IN A �GREAT NATION�1. Ahmadinejad as President: Iran�s Revolutionary Spasm
- 2. Miscalculations in Tehran
- 3. Sunni, Shi�a and the �Trotskyists of Islam�
- 4. Iran�s Revolution in Global History
- 5. Reflections on the Counter-Revolution in Iran
- FIVE: VIOLENCE AND POLITICS
- 1. Terrorism in Historical Perspective
- 2. A Commemoration in Atocha Station
- 3. A Visit to �Ground Zero�
- 4. Two Days with Hizbullah
- 5. Reason amid Rockets: Moral Judgement in Time of War
- 6. The Attorney General Comes to Town
- SIX: PROFANE AGENDA: POLITICS AND PROFIT IN THE LANDS OF ISLAM1. A Transnational Umma: Reality or Myth?
- 2. Faith as Business: Islam, Law and Finance
- 3. Finance in the Gulf: The Chimera of �Sovereign Wealth Funds�
- 4. A State of Robbers: The Jamahiriyah at 40
- SEVEN: UNIVERSALISM IMPERILLED
- 1. The Crisis of Universalism: America and Radical Islam after 9/11
- 2. Letter from Euskadi
- 3. Post-Colonial Sequestration Syndrome: Tibet, Palestine and the Politics of Failure
- 4. Georgia�s War: On the Miscalculations of Small Nations
- 5. Letter from Yerevan: Armenia�s Mixed Messages6. In the Darkest Place: A Morning in Auschwitz
- CONCLUSIONS
- 1. The World�s Twelve Worst Ideas
- 2. The Revenge of Ideas: Karl Polanyi and Susan Strange
- 3. A Time in Barcelona
- Books by Fred Halliday
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z