This is the fourth installment of a seven part series on the Patterson School's Summer Reading List.World of Nations, William KeylorThe Bottom Billion, Paul CollierHide and Seek, Charles DuelferSecond World, Parag KhannaIf you like Tom Friedman, but think that his concepts are too concrete, that...
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This is the third installment of a seven part series on the Patterson School's Summer Reading List.World of Nations, William KeylorThe Bottom Billion, Paul CollierHide and Seek, Charles DuelferCharles Duelfer.
Nancy Tucker's Strait Talk, published earlier this year, is a detailed examination of the triangular relationship between Washington, Taipei, and Beijing between the 1970s and today. Tucker focuses on the.
This is the 20th and final chapter in the series on George Herring From Colony to Superpower. that Erik Loomis and I have embarked upon. The twentieth chapter runs from roughly the end of the first Gulf War until about 2007. The world that faced...
The Patterson School's new summer reading list is out. I've recently finished the Kilcullen and the Bacevich, both of which are quite good; reviews pending. Also, David Wescott of Business.
This is the 19th installment of our 20 part series on George Herring's From Colony to Superpower. Erik had the honors this week; check out his post first.Reagan's approach to.
Part 18 in our twenty part series on George Herring's From Colony to Superpower brings us to 1974, and Gerald Ford's unlikely ascension to the office of the Presidency. The chapter ends with the election of Ronald Reagan. In between, Herring expresses unlikely sympathy for...
We're now to part 17 of our twenty part series on George Herring's From Colony to Superpower. I am told that there is the possibility that the second half of.
The most exciting piracy event in recent memory happened to correspond with a period in which I had almost zero time to blog. A bit more on that later, of.
Chapter XVI of From Colony to Superpower covers the Kennedy and Johnson years. Erik has some additional thoughts on chapter XV; check them out. The time periods covered by chapters have shortened from about 15 to about 8 years since the beginning of the book,...
Erik leads off the 15th installment of our 20 part series on George Herring's From Colony to Superpower with a discussion of John Foster Dulles, and of the role of.
I'm hosting a Firedoglake book salon for Juan Cole's latest, Engaging the Muslim World, at 5pm this afternoon. Swing by if you get a chance...