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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch

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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (51989)7/25/2004 4:45:52 PM
From: stockman_scott  Read Replies (1) of 89467
 
Here is a book that is worth reading: "Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism." It is by Stephen Zunes, who is an associate professor of politics and chair of the Peace & Justice Studies Program at the University of San Francisco, and serves as the Middle East editor for the Foreign Policy in Focus Project (online at fpif.org ).

Here's a review of Tinderbox from Amazon's website...

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<<...Tinderbox Brings Us Up-to-date on Current Crises, November 15, 2002
Reviewer: John E. Kimber (Seaside, CA United States) - See all my reviews
Tinderbox is the first book I know of that successfully integrates all aspects of today's Middle East problems: U.S. foreign policy, Iraq, Israel-Palestine, and Islamic terrorism. And Stephen Zunes does the job superbly. His new book is at the same time a readable journalistic effort--a page turner--as well as a scholarly political science and history work. This is combined journalism, political science, and history writing at its best. This is truly a landmark book on US-Middle East relations.

An important feature of this book is that most of its chapters are self-contained in the sense that they can be profitably read separately, like a handbook, without reading the whole book. For example, you can go to the chapter on The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and get an excellent 65-page up-to-date analysis of that subject...>>
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