Scholars often locate the origins of the modern Islamic world in European colonialism or Islamic reactions to European modernity. The Emergence of Moderm Shi'ism focuses instead on the rise of Islamic movements indigeneous to the Middle East, which developed in direct response …
"This book evaluates American foreign policy actions from the perspective of great power responsibility, with three case studies: Operation Iraqi Freedom, American drone strikes in Pakistan and the post- 9/11 practice of extraordinary rendition"--
"During the classical age of Greece, Herodotus wrote the first great prose epic and became known through the ages as "the father of history." But he was much more than that. He was also the world's first travel writer, a pioneering geographer, anthropologist, explorer, moralist,…
Essays om magt og moderne imperialisme. Om hvordan en million indonesere døde for at opfylde Verdensbankens krav, om prisen som befolkningen i Irak betaler for Vestens embargo, om den oprindelige befolknings vilkår i Australien og om Amerikas "world order" efter 11. september
"John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how General Suharto's bloody seizure of power …
"An explosive new voice in fiction emerges from Iraq in this blistering debut by "perhaps the best writer of Arabic fiction alive" (The Guardian) The first major literary work about the Iraq War from an Iraqi perspective, The Corpse Exhibition shows us the war as we have never s…
"Can Russia, the European Union and the three major EU member states adopt a unified policy line in the global arena? Charlotte Wagnsson investigates the cohesiveness of 'greater Europe' through the detailed scrutiny of policy statements by the leadership elites in the UK, Franc…
In this intellectual history, historian of the ancient Near East Marc Van de Mieroop argues that, for three millennia preceding the Greeks, there were Babylonian philosophers who systematically studied knowledge--about language, divination, and the law--using a coherent system o…
Chronicles the planning and execution of Israel's 1981 mission to destroy Iraq's French-built nuclear reactor, which gave the country the ability to create an atomic bomb, and describes the action's aftermath and its impact on international politics years later.
Chronicles the planning and execution of Israel's 1981 mission to destroy Iraq's French-built nuclear reactor, which gave the country the ability to create an atomic bomb, and describes the action's aftermath and its impact on international politics years later.
