Articles tagged with: review
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Wednesday, 13 Jun, 2012
The future of the international order is certainly not a new topic; it has arguably become the staple of gatherings such as Davos, think-tank reports, and geopoltical analysts. Ian Bremmer’s latest book adds a depth and dimension to these debates, especially in light of the 2008 financial crisis.
Discussion of a world without US global leadership is certainly not new. Noted historian Paul Kennedy’s 1987 classic, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers began this discussion, but unfortunate...
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Tuesday, 8 May, 2012
Yemen’s weaknesses and strengthens are the focus of a recent report by the Carnegie Endowment. On one side, the author stresses the country’s natural resources, with oil and natural gas on the frontline. On the other, the report stresses Yemen’s incapability of managing these same resources (and many others) due to both its political structure and insecurity in the region more generally.
It should not all be about the oil. According to the author, the fact that Yemen’s oil has ena...
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Friday, 23 Mar, 2012
In Egypt, on the eleventh of February 2011—the night president Hosni Mubarak resigned and handed over power to the army—a revolution was on the move, but the next day, it...
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Friday, 23 Mar, 2012
Acclaimed Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan recently said, “I like to create to mislead people.” Everything about his extraordinary, Palme d’Or-winning film Once Upon A ...
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Wednesday, 21 Dec, 2011
Earlier this year, Majalla published a review of Hitch-22, the prescient memoir of Christopher Hitchens titled to reference the bible of the absurd, Joseph Heller’s Catch-22....
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Monday, 21 Nov, 2011
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
Daniel Yergin
Allen Lane, 2011
The Quest by Daniel Yergin is a magisterial account of the comp...
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Thursday, 23 Jun, 2011
The Future of Power
Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
Public Affairs
$16.00
A recent survey of American political scientists ranked Joseph Nye as the most influential scholar on A...
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