The Dust Of Empire: The Race For Mastery In The Asian Heartland

Meyer, .

ISBN 10 : 1586482416 ISBN 13 : 9781586482411

Editeur : PublicAffairs, 2004

Synopsis

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

When Charles de Gaulle learned that France's former colonies in Africa had chosen independence, the great general shrugged dismissively, "They are the dust of empire." But as Americans have learned, particles of dust from remote and seemingly medieval countries can, at great human and material cost, jam the gears of a superpower.

In The Dust of Empire, Karl E. Meyer examines the present and past of the Asian heartland in a book that blends scholarship with reportage, providing fascinating detail about regions and peoples now of urgent concern to America: the five Central Asian republics, the Caspian and the Caucasus, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and long-dominant Russia. He provides the context for America's war on terrorism, for Washington's search for friends and allies in an Islamic world rife with extremism, and for the new politics of pipelines and human rights in an area richer in the former than the latter. He offers a rich and complicated tapestry of a region where empires have so often come to grief—a cautionary tale.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Karl E. Meyer was a longtime member of The New York Times editorial board, a former foreign correspondent for The Washington Post and is currently the editor of World Policy Journal. He holds a doctorate from Princeton University and has taught at Princeton, Yale, and Oxford Universities. He lives in Weston, Connecticut.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: PublicAffairs
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1586482416
• ISBN 13: 9781586482411
• Reliure: Livre broché
• Nombre de pages: 288