Last Chance: The Middle East in the Balance - Rilegato

Gardner, David

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ISBN 10: 1848850417 ISBN 13: 9781848850415

Casa editrice: I B Tauris & Co Ltd, 2009

Riassunto

As Barack Obama seeks to chart a new course in American foreign policy, David Gardner addresses the controversial but urgent question: why is the Middle East so dysfunctional?  And what can be done about it?

Clear-sighted and never flinching from uncomfortable truths, Gardner draws on his acute grasp of history and decades of experience covering the region to look at why conflict, despotism and sectarianism continue to flourish in the Arab world whilst they decline elsewhere.  The supposed ‘Middle East exception’ is in fact, he argues, a product of the West’s own making.  By supporting tyrants, fuelling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and demonizing democratically elected Islamist parties, the West has incubated a region inherently resistant to economic and political reform, and suppurating with resentment.  Timely and insightful, Gardner makes the case for a foreign policy revolution for ntohing less than a total reappraisal of what realpolitik means.

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'Timely, absorbing, and deeply disturbing 'Last Chance' is central to any understanding of the problems and prospects of the Middle East in the 21st century.' --Avi Shlaim, Professor of International Relations, St Antony's College, Oxford

'David Gardner's book is the most lively, well-informed and controversial overview of the Middle East to appear for several years. It will instruct, entertain, but also infuriate many readers, because his rapier thrusts invariably strike home. To understand this turbulent region, this is a must read. David Gardner is one of Britain's leading foreign affairs experts. His sources are unique, his range awesome and his indictment of Arab tyranny and Western connivance devastating and unanswerable.' --Patrick Seale

'At last, a book that goes to the heart of the eternal Middel East crisis. David Gardner writes courageously and candidly of the West's 'support and indulgence' of corrupt Arab tyrannies, an indulgence that far from securing stability, breeds extremism. He also spells out how US and UK support for Israel has solidified even in the face of Israel's strengthening grip on the Palestinians and the occupied West Bank. This is a book that should be in the hand baggage of every one of President Obama's Middle East negotiators.' --Jon Snow

L'autore

David Gardner is chief leader writer and associate editor at the Financial Times. He was the paper’s Middle East Editor from 1995-1999. In 2003 he won the David Watt prize for international journalism.

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• Editore: I B Tauris & Co Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1848850417
• ISBN 13: 9781848850415
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 229