| Description |
xxiv, 637 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [567]-596) and index. |
| Contents |
Revolutionary warfare and counterinsurgency -- Revolutionary warfare : how to tell when the rebels have won -- Radical but wrong -- Counterinsurgency -- Epilogue : the lessons of Vietnam -- PLO and ANC : painful contrasts -- Iran's landmark revolution : fifteen years later -- The making of The Battle of Algiers -- Algeria began badly : remembering Sidi Mohammed -- Third world politics : pathologies of power, pathologies of resistance -- From potato sack to potato mash : the contemporary crisis of the Third World -- Postcolonial systems of power -- The neofascist state : notes on the pathology of power in the Third World -- War of the rentier states -- Islam and politics -- Roots of the religious right -- On the cusp of the cold war : portents of a new century -- The cold war from the standpoint of its victims -- Political culture and foreign policy : notes on American interventions in the Third World -- The cold war from the standpoint of its victims -- Yet again a new Nixon -- Cracks in the western world (view) : questions for the US and Europe -- After the cold war : worlds of pain -- At cold war's end : a world of pain -- Terrorism : theirs and ours -- A time to remember -- Welcome war in Bosnia -- America's Gulf war : neglected perspectives -- The hundred-hour war -- Covering the Middle East -- After the winter bombs -- The Palestinian-Israeli conflict : colonization in the era of decolonization -- Pioneering in the nuclear age : an essay on Israel and the Palestinians -- 'A world restored' revisited : American diplomacy in the Middle East -- An essay on reconciliation -- On Arab bankruptcy -- The public relations of ethnocide -- Peace of the weak -- Beyond Arafat's antics -- An address in Gaza -- King Hussein's dual legacy -- South Asia -- Partitioned lands, divided sentiments -- On Jinnah -- Jinnah, in a class of his own -- The betrayed promise -- Pakistan's military -- Letter to a Pakistani diplomat -- Pakistan : signposts to a police state -- General Zia is now the law -- Afghanistan -- Bloody games -- Stalemate at Jalalabad -- In a land without music -- Taliban's unlikely story -- What after 'strategic depth'? -- Jihad international, inc -- Kashmir and India-Pakistan conflict -- Beyond mutual destruction -- India's obsession, our choice -- When mountains die -- No alternative to dialogue -- Pakistan : the return of the generals -- No, not again! -- The signals soldiers pick -- Shotgun governance. |
| Subject |
World politics -- 20th century.
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Eastern question.
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| Added Author |
Bengelsdorf, Carollee.
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Cerullo, Margaret.
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Chandrani, Yogesh.
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| ISBN |
0231127103 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0231127111 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
9780231127103 |
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9780231127110 |
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