Political journeys [[electronic resource] ] : the openDemocracy essays / / Fred Halliday ; edited by David Hayes

• Autore: Halliday Fred
• Pubblicazione: New Haven, Conn., : Yale University Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 pages)
• Disciplina: 909.825
• Soggetto topico: Political science
• Altri autori: HayesDavid
• Note generali: Originally published: London: Saqi Books, 2011.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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?
• Titolo autorizzato: Political journeys
• ISBN: 1-283-54593-4; 9786613858382; 0-300-18239-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785637803321
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