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1. Towards an Independent Kurdistan: Self-Determination in International Law

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Kurds, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

Towards an Independent Kurdistan: Self-Determination in International Law. By Loqman Radpey. New York: Routledge, 2024. 301 pp. $170. The Kurds are the largest ethnic group to lack their own nation-state. [...]

Published
2024

2. Whither Iran? Why the Russia-Iran Alliance Will Backfire

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Revolutions, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

For all its talk of leading a 'resistance front,' the Islamic Republic of Iran has historically had few allies. When Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini led his revolutionaries, 'Neither East nor West [...]

Published
2022

3. Silence is never the answer when hostages are taken

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Labor unions -- Sweden -- Iran, Hostages, Diplomats, Diplomacy, News, opinion and commentary, Regional focus/area studies, European Union
Abstract

Word leaked recently that Iran had held Johan Floderus, a Swedish diplomat working for the European Union's foreign service, for more than 500 days. The West kept his detention quiet [...]

Published
2023

4. How to tell if Saudi-Iran rapprochement is just virtue signaling or actually real

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
International relations, News, opinion and commentary, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

China's announcement last month that it had brokered a diplomatic rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia caught Washington by surprise. The goal was not the problem. After all, this was [...]

Published
2023

5. Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran-Iraq War

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Syracuse University Press, Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988, Book publishing, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran-Iraq War. By Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2021. 457 pp. $90 ($24.95, paper). In 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini led the Islamic [...]

Published
2021

6. It's time for a 'Future of Iran Project'

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
United States. Department of State, Postwar reconstruction, News, opinion and commentary, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

Two decades ago in the run-up to the Iraq war, the State Department sponsored the 'Future of Iraq Project.' The idea was simple: With change being inevitable, the State Department [...]

Published
2023

7. City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk. By Arbella Bet-Shlimon. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. 275 pp. $85 ($26, paper). Bet-Shlimon of the University of [...]

Published
2020

8. Biden should encourage Iran nuclear defections

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Nuclear proliferation, Atomic bomb, News, opinion and commentary, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

Visiting Israel last month, President Joe Biden signed the 'Jerusalem Declaration' promising to 'use all elements of its national power' to deny Iran a nuclear weapon. Biden's strategy, however, appears [...]

Published
2022

9. Joe Biden shouldn't blow his Iran protest 'do-over'

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Nuclear energy -- Demonstrations and protests, News, opinion and commentary, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

In 2009, Iran erupted. Iranian elections have never been free in the Western sense: The clerical regime carefully vets who can run and often eliminates more than 98% of the [...]

Published
2022

10. Iranians are clear: The Islamic regime has lost legitimacy

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Dissenters, News, opinion and commentary, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

Forty-three years ago, Iranians took to the streets to celebrate the end of the shah's regime and welcome the return of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who, in exile, had become the [...]

Published
2022

11. Jeffrey Gedmin: 'our Iranian colleagues believe in Radio Farda's mission'

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Radio journalists -- Interviews, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

Jeffrey Gedmin has, since February 2007, been president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), where he directs broadcasting and Internet operations in twenty-eight languages and where, with an annual budget [...]

Published
2008

12. Iran's revolutionary guards--a rogue outfit?

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Iran -- Military aspects, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps -- Powers and duties -- History, Terrorist organizations -- Identification and classification -- Military aspects, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies, Military aspects, Identification and classification, Powers and duties, History
Abstract

There is a tendency in Western capitals to dismiss adversarial Iranian behavior as the work of rogue regime factions, which are not representative of Tehran's true intentions. Following a Baghdad [...]

Published
2008

13. Vanguard of the Imam: Religion, Politics, and Iran's Revolutionary Guards

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Oxford University Press (Oxford, England) -- Political activity, Book publishing -- International economic relations -- Political activity -- Political aspects, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

Vanguard of the Imam: Religion, Politics, and Iran's Revolutionary Guards. By Afshon Ostovar. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 306 pp. $34.95. One of the biggest holes in scholarship about [...]

Published
2017

14. Khomeini's Warriors: Foundation of Iran's Regime, Its Guardians, Allies around the World, War Analysis, and Strategies

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Khomeini's Warriors: Foundation of Iran's Regime, Its Guardians, Allies around the World, War Analysis, and Strategies (Nonfiction work) -- Riazaty, Mehran -- Book reviews, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

Khomeini's Warriors: Foundation of Iran's Regime, Its Guardians, Allies around the World, War Analysis, and Strategies. By Mehran Riazaty. Bloomington, Ind.: XLibris, 2016. 576 pp. $10. Although the Islamic Republic [...]

Published
2017

15. Confronting Al Qaeda: The Sunni Awakening and American Strategy in al Anbar

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Sunnites, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

Confronting Al Qaeda: The Sunni Awakening and American Strategy in al Anbar. By Martha L. Cottam and Joe W. Huseby. Lantham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016. 147 pp. $45. [ILLUSTRATION [...]

Published
2017

16. An Intellectual History of Turkish Nationalism. Between Turkish Ethnicity and Islamic Identity

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
An Intellectual History of Turkish Nationalism: Between Turkish Ethnicity and Islamic Identity (Nonfiction work) -- Uzer, Umut -- Book reviews, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

An Intellectual History of Turkish Nationalism. Between Turkish Ethnicity and Islamic Identity. By Umut Uzer. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2016. 276 pp. $25. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In 1923, [...]

Published
2017

17. Iraq in books

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception (Book) -- Schechter, Danny, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Book) -- Ricks, Thomas E., Night Draws Near (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews, Iraq and Back: Inside the War to Win the Peace (Book) -- Olson, Kim, The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq (Book) -- Stewart, Rory, In the Company of Soldiers (Book) -- Atkinson, Rick, In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq (Book) -- Rosen, Nir, The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End (Book) -- Galbraith, Peter W., Insurgency and Counter-insurgency in Iraq (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews, My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope (Book) -- Bremer, L. Paul, No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah (Book) -- West, Francis J., Revolt on the Tigris (Book) -- Etherington, Mark, The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq (Book) -- Packer, George, Night Draws Near (Book) -- Shadid, Anthony, Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad (Book) -- Zucchino, David, Sleeping with Custer and the 7th Cavalry: An Embedded Reporter in Iraq (Book) -- Rodgers, Walter C., Squandered Victory (Book) -- Diamond, Larry, Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco (Book) -- Phillips, David, My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews, Among Warriors in Iraq (Book) -- Tucker, Mike, On Point: The United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom (Book) -- Fontenot, Gregory -- Degen, E.J. -- Tohn, David, Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (Book) -- Chandrasekaran, Rajiv, The Foreigner's Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq (Book) -- Ajami, Fouad, Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews, Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq (Book) -- Katovsky, Bill -- Carlson, Timothy, Blind into Baghdad: America's War in Iraq (Book) -- Fallows, James, In the Red Zone: A Journey into the Soul of Iraq (Book) -- Vincent, Steven, The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the 1st Marine Division (Book) -- West, Francis J. -- Smith, Ray L., Thieves of Baghdad: One Marine's Passion for Ancient Civilizations and the Journey to Recover the World's Greatest Stolen Treasures (Book) -- Bogdanos, Matthew, Reclaiming a Plundered Past (Book) -- Bernhardsson, Magnus, Iraq, Inc.: A Profitable Occupation (Book) -- Chatterjee, Pratap, Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq (Book) -- Gordon, Michael R. -- Trainor, Bernard E., Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews, Ambush Alley: The Most Extraordinary Battle of the Iraq War (Book) -- Pritchard, Tim, The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews, The Blog of War: Frontline Dispatches from Military Bloggers in Iraq and Afghanistan (Book) -- Burden, Matthew, Memories of State: Politics, History and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq (Book) -- Davis, Eric, Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq (Book) -- Hashim, Ahmed S., Books -- Book reviews, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

The Iraq war has pumped adrenaline into the publishing industry. Whereas five years ago, few bookstores included any selections on Iraq, today dozens of Iraq books line the shelves. There [...]

Published
2007

18. Green money, Islamist politics in Turkey

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Reconciliation Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, AKP) swept to victory in Turkey's parliamentary elections on November 3, 2002. More than two years later, the Islamic-oriented [...]

Published
2005

19. Ahmad Chalabi: 'the biggest error was occupation.'

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Iraqi National Congress -- Officials and employees, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Officials and employees
Abstract

Ahmad Chalabi is the leader of the Iraqi National Congress (INC). He was born in Baghdad in October 1944 to one of Iraq's most prominent families. (His father, 'Abd al-Hadi, [...]

Published
2004

20. Iran Islamic Republichas made its nuclear threat clear

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Nuclear nonproliferation, Uranium, News, opinion and commentary, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

As talks to restart the 2015 Iran nuclear deal flounder in Vienna and Iran admits that it now enriches uranium up to 60% (an enrichment level of around 5% is [...]

Published
2021

21. Jalal Talabani: ;No grounds for relations with Baghdad'

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Iraq -- Political aspects, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan -- Officials and employees, Islam -- Political aspects, Paramilitary groups -- Iraq -- Political aspects, Government, Resistance to -- Iraq -- Political aspects, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies, Political activity, Political aspects, Officials and employees
Abstract

Jalal Talabani has been president of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) since the organization's founding in 1977. Born in Kelkan in 1933, he actively participated in the Iraqi Kurdish [...]

Published
2002

22. How to free Iraq

Author

Rubin, Michael A.

Subjects
Iraq -- Political aspects, International relations -- Analysis -- Political aspects, Subversive activities -- Planning -- Political aspects -- Analysis, Sanctions (International law) -- Iraq -- Analysis -- Political aspects, Presidents -- Political activity -- Analysis -- Political aspects -- Planning, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies, Company business planning, Political activity, Planning, Analysis, Political aspects
Abstract

On September 11, the world changed--or at least some of it did. Iraq did not. While the rest of the world mourned, or at least nominally condemned the terrorist attack, [...]

Published
2002

23. Tehran appears powerless as power cuts boil Iranian public

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Labor disputes, Power failure, News, opinion and commentary, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution was not inevitable. The Shah had weathered waves of protests over the decades. What ultimately pushed the monarchy over the brink was escalating labor unrest that [...]

Published
2021

24. The Iranian Constitutional Revolution and the Clerical Leadership of Khurasani. By Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Syracuse University Press, Constitutional Revolution, 1905-1911, Book publishing, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

The Iranian Constitutional Revolution and the Clerical Leadership of Khurasani. By Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2015. 329 pp. $49.95. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For Iranians, the 1905-11 constitutional revolution [...]

Published
2016

25. Everyday Iran: A Provincial Portrait of the Islamic Republic. By Clarissa de Waal

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Everyday Iran: A Provincial Portrait of the Islamic Republic (Nonfiction work) -- de Waal, Clarissa -- Book reviews, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

Everyday Iran: A Provincial Portrait of the Islamic Republic. By Clarissa de Waal. New York: LB. Tauris, 2015. 198 pp. $94. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Iran--a country of more than 80 million--is [...]

Published
2016

26. The Death of the Mehdi Army. The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Iraq's Most Powerful Militia. By Nicholas Krohley

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Oxford University Press (Oxford, England), Book publishing, Shiites, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies, Mahdi Army
Abstract

The Death of the Mehdi Army. The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Iraq's Most Powerful Militia. By Nicholas Krohley. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 305 pp. $40. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [...]

Published
2016

27. Iran's elections have always been fraudulent--stop pretending otherwise

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Elections -- Ethical aspects, News, opinion and commentary, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

Iranian Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi's election victory is now president-elect, confirming a rise years in the making. There is much to fear about Raisi. He makes most Iranian revolutionaries appear, [...]

Published
2021

28. The Politics of Intelligence and American Wars with Iraq

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
The Politics of Intelligence and American Wars with Iraq (Nonfiction work) -- Seliktar, Ofira -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

The Politics of Intelligence and American Wars with Iraq. By Ofira Seliktar. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.214 pp. $74.95. The failure to find weapons of mass destruction after the U.S. [...]

Published
2010

29. The Future of Iran's Past: Nizam al-Mulk Remembered

Author

Yavari, Neguin and Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Oxford University Press (Oxford, England), Book publishing, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

The Future of Iran's Past: Nizam al-Mulk Remembered. By Neguin Yavari. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. 275 pp. $50Nizam al-Mulk (1018-92), vizier--roughly prime minister--at the height of the Seljuk [...]

Published
2019

30. Crisis, Collapse, Militarism and Civil War: The History and Historiography of 18th Century Iran

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Oxford University Press (Oxford, England), Book publishing, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

Crisis, Collapse, Militarism and Civil War: The History and Historiography of 18th Century Iran. Edited by Michael Axworthy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. 247 pp. $24Most who delve into [...]

Published
2019

31. The Mystery of Contemporary Iran

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Business schools, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

The Mystery of Contemporary Iran. By Mahnaz Shirali. Trans. by Bernice Dubois. Edison: Transaction, 2015. 276 pp. $47.95. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A major problem with histories of modern Iran is that [...]

Published
2015

33. Iraq: Preventing a New Generation of Conflict

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Iraq: Preventing a New Generation of Conflict (Book) -- Bouillon, Markus E. -- Malone, David (Canadian diplomat) -- Rowswell, Ben, Books -- Book reviews, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

Iraq: Preventing a New Generation of Conflict. Edited by Markus E. Bouillon, David M. Malone, and Ben Rowswell. Boulder: Rienner Press, 2007. 351 pp. $24.50. The International Peace Academy (IPA), [...]

Published
2008

34. Inside the Islamic Republic: Social Change in Post-Khomeini Iran

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
College faculty, Social change, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

Monshipouri, an international relations professor at San Francisco State University, has assembled twelve essays to examine the social transformation in Iran over the past two decades and to counter 'widely [...]

Published
2017

35. The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace (Book) -- Allawi, Ali, The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace. By Ali A. Allawi. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.518 pp. $28. There is no shortage of accounts by U.S. [...]

Published
2007

36. The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq (Book) -- O'Leary, Brendan -- McGarry, John Warren -- Salih, Khaled, Books -- Book reviews, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq. Edited by Brendan O'Leary, John McGarry, and Khaled Salih. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.355 pp. $45. The Kurdistan National Assembly in Erbil, Iraq, [...]

Published
2006

37. Al-Kut, Iraq: after-battle report

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Coalition Provisional Authority -- Reports, Battles -- Reports, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies, Reports
Abstract

In April 2004, followers of Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr launched a well-coordinated uprising across southern Iraq. While Western media focused on events in Sadr City, Najaf, and Karbala, violence [...]

Published
2004

38. Donald Trump can't give Iran a sanctions pass for coronavirus

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Coronaviruses, Legislators, News, opinion and commentary, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

Nine members of Congress, including Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and progressive standouts such as Alexandria Oscario-Cortez Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley, signed a letter calling on the U.S. [...]

Published
2020

39. Soleimani is dead: What you need to know and what happens next

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Americans, Death, Soldiers, Terrorist organizations, Terrorists, Military personnel, Terrorism, News, opinion and commentary, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

Qassem Soleimani was responsible for the deaths of more Americans than any terrorist leader since Osama Bin Laden. No one should mourn his death. In Iran, however, and certainly wTthout [...]

Published
2020

40. Trump's Syria withdrawal could spark Iran-Israel war

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Diplomacy -- Military aspects, Kurds -- Military aspects, DNA, Diplomats, Military operations, Europeans, Syrian foreign relations, Deployment (Military science), News, opinion and commentary, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

President Trump is right: People are sick and tired of expensive and seemingly never-ending U.S. military deployments. Mission creep, conflating initial war aims in Afghanistan and Iraq with nation building, [...]

Published
2019

41. Iran: A Modern History

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Iran: A Modern History (Nonfiction work) -- Amanat, Abbas -- Book reviews, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

Iran: A Modern History. By Abbas Amanat. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. 979 pp. $40. Amanat, Yale University professor and specialist on nineteenth-century Iran (and this reviewer's Ph.D. advisor), [...]

Published
2018

42. Criminals, Militias and Insurgents

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Criminals, Militias and Insurgents (Nonfiction work) -- Williams, Phil -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

Criminals, Militias and Insurgents by Phil Williams Carlisle, Pa.: U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, 2009. 275 pp. $30.50 Analysts describing challenges facing Iraq tend to ignore organized crime, [...]

Published
2010

43. Iraq in Transition: The Legacy of Dictatorship and the Prospects for Democracy

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Iraq in Transition: The Legacy of Dictatorship and the Prospects for Democracy (Nonfiction work) -- Munson, Peter J. -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

Iraq in Transition The Legacy of Dictatorship and the Prospects for Democracy by Peter J. Munson Washington: Potomac Books, 2009. 321 pp. $35. Munson, a U.S. Marine officer with broad [...]

Published
2010

44. The Arab Center

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
The Arab Center (Nonfiction work) -- Muasher, Marwan -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

The Arab Center by Marwan Muasher New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. 312 pp. $30. Muasher, foreign minister of Jordan in 2002-04, distinguished himself as a moderate voice during a [...]

Published
2010

45. An Iraq of its Regions: Cornerstones of a Federal Democracy?

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
An Iraq of its Regions: Cornerstones of a Federal Democracy? (Nonfiction work) -- Visser, Reidar -- Stansfield, Gareth -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

An Iraq of Its Regions: Cornerstones of a Federal Democracy? Edited by Reidar Visser and Gareth Stansfield. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. 274 pp. $27.50 Federalism remains a dominant [...]

Published
2010

46. Syria's path to Islamist terror: Syrian terrorism

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Syria -- Political aspects -- Military aspects -- International aspects, National security -- Political aspects, Islamic militants -- Political aspects -- Political activity, Diplomatic negotiations in international disputes -- International aspects -- Political aspects, Foreign policy -- Interpretation and construction, Terrorism -- Political aspects, Pacific settlement of international disputes -- International aspects -- Political aspects, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

While the Obama administration and congressional leaders may justify renewed engagement with Syria with their desire to jumpstart the Middle East peace process, they ignore the very issue that lies [...]

Published
2010

47. Architects of Delusion: Europe, America, and the Iraq War

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Architects of Delusion: Europe, America, and the Iraq War (Nonfiction work) -- Serfaty, Simon -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

Architects of Delusion Europe, America, and the Iraq War by Simon Serfaty Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 170 pp. $45. Serfaty, a professor of U.S. foreign policy at Old [...]

Published
2009

48. Still Broken: A Recruit's Inside Account of Intelligence Failures, from Baghdad to the Pentagon

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Still Broken: A Recruit's Inside Account of Intelligence Failures, from Baghdad to the Pentagon (Nonfiction work) -- Rossmiller, A.J. -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

Still Broken A Recruit's Inside Account of Intelligence Failures, from Baghdad to the Pentagon by A.J. Rossmiller New York: Presidio Press, 2008. 236 pp. $24.95 Rossmiller dedicates the first half [...]

Published
2009

49. Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society (Nonfiction work) -- Halevi, Leor -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

Muhammad's Grave Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society by Leor Halevi New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. 400 pp. $38 Western policymakers and academics often concern themselves with [...]

Published
2009

50. Nights in the Pink Motel: An American Strategist's Pursuit of Peace in Iraq

Author

Rubin, Michael

Subjects
Nights in the Pink Motel: An American Strategist's Pursuit of Peace in Iraq (Nonfiction work) -- Earle, Robert -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, International relations, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

Nights in the Pink Motel An American Strategist's Pursuit of Peace in Iraq by Robert Earle Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2008. 256 pp. $34.95. Hundreds of U.S. diplomats and officials [...]

Published
2009

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