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Book ReviewsRead an interesting book? Share it with the Atlantic Community! You can also comment on book reviews, start a debate, or recommend alternative books. If you are not yet a member of atlantic-community.org, join now. Registration only takes a minute and enables you to network with more than 5000 peers. Contact the editorial team, if you need any assistance. We are here to help. May 14, 2012 | No One's World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global TurnJason Naselli: When asked to name the driving force behind liberal democracy in the West, I admit that the Protestant Reformation would not have been my first answer. However, this is the answer of Charles A. Kupchan in his ...MoreMarch 12, 2012 | From Plato to NATO: The Idea of the West and Its OpponentsMarija Martinovic: An in-depth intellectual history of the Western idea and a passionate defense of its importance to America's future, From Plato to NATO is the first book to make sense of the legacy of the West at a time when it is facing its ...MoreDecember 2, 2011 | A Brief History of NeoliberalismMary Einbinder: In A Brief History of Neoliberalism, David Harvey, a geographer and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at CUNY, portrays the process of globalization through an economic perspective. Harvey describes the gradual shift throughout the global market ...MoreJuly 20, 2011 | The Good War: NATO and the Liberal Conscience in AfghanistanMartin J Bayly: One of the challenges facing anyone who wishes to write on the war in Afghanistan is to squeeze this fiendishly difficult topic into an appropriate framework. It is not easy to find an approach that avoids either ...MoreMay 24, 2011 | New Insights Into the Islamic Republic of IranAli Fathollah-Nejad: The Iranian Revolution of 1979 is considered a defining moment because the Islamic Republic replaced an authoritarian monarchy that was friendly to the West. The revolution, moreover, linked religion to politics in an unprecedented way. ...MoreSeptember 7, 2010 | Stephen Kinzer: Reset: Iran, Turkey and America's FutureAli Sarihan: "Iran and Turkey are potential long-term partners for the United States since they share strategic goals, and their societies share democratic values." The idea would have been widely accepted as true, if it had been ...MoreAugust 26, 2010 | Howard Zinn: "A People's History of the United States"Paul-Robert Lookman: After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the US emerged as the world's sole superpower. Its reliance on the reach of the Pentagon to compensate for a waning hegemony in other domains, and the necessity to contend ...MoreJuly 6, 2010 | Fareed Zakaria: The Post American WorldEthan Christian Arrow: Opening with a quote from Arnold J. Toynbee’s A Study of History, Fareed Zakaria poses the thesis that America is standing at the crossroads between a new leadership role and a frustrated obscurity. “Growth takes place whenever ...More
Sepideh Parsa: In his book "Decent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of
Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia" Ahmed Rashid
depicts the reasons for the United States' failure in rebuilding Afghanistan
after 9/11. He provides his ...More |
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