Political journeys
Subtitle: the openDemocracy essays
By: Fred Halliday ; edited by David Hayes
Contributors: Hayes, David
Publisher: Yale University
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780300180268
Subjects: Globalization; Mass media and culture; International relations; Democracy; Information society; World politics
Description: "One of the great contrarians of international relations scholarship, Fred Halliday was able to combine his understanding of the broad sweep of modern history with a profound knowledge of modern revolutions, the Middle East, and national movements. This collection of Halliday's political essays written for the online journal openDemocracy between 2004 and 2009 is proof of a subtle worldview that continues to generate questions: What is the relation between religion, nationalism, and progress? Is a new international order possible? When is intervention a force for progress?  From the big headline topics such as the Iraq War to the unexpected comparisons of Tibet and Palestine, or Afghanistan and the Falklands, Halliday's writings provide a perennially surprising and enlightened guide to the major issues of international politics." -- Publisher's website.
Notes: "openDemocracy essays'--Cover.

"Essays written for openDemocracy between the start of 2004 and the end of 2009"--Introduction, p. 9.

First published in the United Kingdom by Saqi Books, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-280) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1: Points of departure. Lessons from Ireland; title: 1968: the global legacy; title: What was communism?; title: A lunch with Mario Soares; title: The forward march of women halted?; title: Feminism in the Middle East: two pioneers. Part 2: Shadows of cold war. The age of the three dustbins; title: Looking back on Saddam Hussein; title: Cold war assassinations: solved and unsolved; title: A conversation in Havana; title: Boadicea in the South Atlantic: the legacies of Margaret Thatcher; title: The vagaries of 'Anti-Imperalism': the left and Jihad; title: The Dominican Republic: in search of a 'national hero'. Part 3: Challenges of the Middle East. Crisis of the Middle East: 1914, 1967, 2003; title: America and the Arab world after Saddam; title: Al Jazeera: a matchbox that roared; title: Yemen: murder in Arabia Felix; title: Navigating Mare Nostrum: The Barcelona Process after ten years; title: In an unholy place: letter from Jerusalem. Lebanon, Israel and the 'Greater West Asian Crisis'; title: Maxime Rodinson: in praise of a ' marginal man'. Part 4: Iran: revolution in a 'great nation'. Ahmadinejad as president: Iran's revolutionary spasm; title: Miscalculations in Tehran; title: Sunni, Shi'a and the 'Trotskyists of Islam'; title: Iran's revolution in global history; title: Reflections on the counter-revolution in Iran. Part 5: Violence and politics. Terrorism in historical perspective; title: A commemoration in Atocha Station; title: A visit to 'Ground Zero'; title: Two days with Hizbullah; title: Reason amid Rockets: moral judgement in time of war; title: The attorney general comes to town. Part 6: Profane agenda: politics and profit in the lands of Islam. A transnational Umma: reality or myth?; title: Faith as business: Islam, law and finance; title: Finance in the Gulf: the Chimera of 'sovereign wealth funds'; title: A state of robbers: the Jamahiriyah at 40. Part 7: Universalism imperilled. The crisis of universalism: America and Radical Islam after 9/11; title: Letter from Euskadi; title: Post-colonial sequestration syndrome: Tibet, Palestine and the politics of failure; title: Georgia's war: On the miscalculations of small nations; title: Letter from Yerevan: Armenia's mixed messages; title: In the darkest place: a morning in Auschwitz.