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Political Journeys : The OpenDemocracy Essays.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (289 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300182392
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Political JourneysDDC classification:
  • 327.0904
LOC classification:
  • JA66 -- .H35 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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 Jihad -- 7. 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 ISLAM -- 1. 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 Messages -- 6. 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.
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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 Jihad -- 7. 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 ISLAM -- 1. 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 Messages -- 6. 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.

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