04557nam 2200553 a 450 991081476420332120230124190527.01-283-54593-497866138583820-300-18239-2(CKB)2670000000233752(StDuBDS)AH24245159(SSID)ssj0000738791(PQKBManifestationID)12284621(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000738791(PQKBWorkID)10671339(PQKB)11753440(MiAaPQ)EBC3421029(Au-PeEL)EBL3421029(CaPaEBR)ebr10587839(CaONFJC)MIL385838(OCoLC)923599882(EXLCZ)99267000000023375220120112d2012 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrPolitical journeys[electronic resource] the openDemocracy essays /Fred Halliday ; edited by David HayesNew Haven, Conn. Yale University Press20121 online resource (288 pages)Originally published: London: Saqi Books, 2011.0-300-18026-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Part 1: Points of departure. Lessons from Ireland ; 1968: the global legacy ; What was communism? ; A lunch with Mario Soares ; The forward march of women halted? ; Feminism in the Middle East: two pioneers -- Part 2: Shadows of cold war. The age of the three dustbins ; Looking back on Saddam Hussein ; Cold war assassinations: solved and unsolved ; A conversation in Havana ; Boadicea in the South Atlantic: the legacies of Margaret Thatcher ; The vagaries of 'Anti-Imperialism': the left and Jihad ; The Dominican Republic: in search of a 'national hero' -- Part 3: Challenges of the Middle East. Crises of the Middle East: 1914, 1967, 2003 ; America and the Arab world after Saddam ; Al Jazeera: a matchbox that roared ; Yemen: murder in Arabia Felix ; Navigating Mare Nostrum: The Barcelona Process after ten years ; In an unholy place: letter from Jerusalem ; Lebanon, Israel and the 'Greater West Asian Crisis' ; Maxime Rodinson: in praise of a ' marginal man' -- Part 4: Iran: revolution in a 'great nation'. Ahmadinejad as president: Iran's revolutionary spasm ; Miscalculations in Tehran ; Sunni, Shi'a and the 'Trotskyists of Islam' ; Iran's revolution in global history ; Reflections on the counter-revolution in Iran -- Part 5: Violence and politics. Terrorism in historical perspective ; A commemoration in Atocha Station ; A visit to 'Ground Zero' ; Two days with Hizbullah ; Reason amid Rockets: moral judgement in time of war ; The attorney general comes to town -- Part 6: Profane agenda: politics and profit in the lands of Islam. A transnational Umma: reality or myth? ; Faith as business: Islam, law and finance ; Finance in the Gulf: the Chimera of 'sovereign wealth funds' ; A state of robbers: the Jamahiriyah at 40 -- Part 7: Universalism imperilled. The crisis of universalism: America and Radical Islam after 9/11 ; Letter from Euskadi ; Post-colonial sequestration syndrome: Tibet, Palestine and the politics of failure ; Georgia's war: on the miscalculations of small nations ; Letter from Yerevan: Armenia's mixed messages ; In the darkest place: a morning in Auschwitz -- Conclusions. The world's twelve worst ideas ; The revenge of ideas: Karl Polyani and Susan Strange ; A time in Barcelona.This collection of columns, written for openDemocracy between 2004 and 2009, is proof of a subtle worldview that continues to generate the question: what is the relation between religion, nationalism and progress?"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 essays written for the online journal openDemocracy between 2004 and 2009 is proof of a subtle worldview that continues to generate questions: What is the relation between religion, nationalism, and progress? Is a new interPolitical sciencePolitical science.909.825Halliday Fred250441Hayes David910386MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814764203321Political journeys4105054UNINA