The Dust Of Empire: The Race For Mastery In The Asian HeartlandPublicAffairs, 2008年8月5日 - 288 頁 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. |
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第 v 頁
... AMERICA AFTER IRAQ I PATTERNS OF MASTERY, BRITISH AND AMERICAN II RUSSIA: The Long Talons of Memory III IRAN: The Agonies of Non-sovereignty IV PAKISTAN: Sins of Partition V AFGHANISTAN: In a Dark Defile VI THE CAUCASUS: A Bedlam of ...
... AMERICA AFTER IRAQ I PATTERNS OF MASTERY, BRITISH AND AMERICAN II RUSSIA: The Long Talons of Memory III IRAN: The Agonies of Non-sovereignty IV PAKISTAN: Sins of Partition V AFGHANISTAN: In a Dark Defile VI THE CAUCASUS: A Bedlam of ...
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... Americans or American interests. More recently the United States, like other great powers before it, has discovered that, no matter how preponderant its military strength, it does not always have the ability to choose either its ...
... Americans or American interests. More recently the United States, like other great powers before it, has discovered that, no matter how preponderant its military strength, it does not always have the ability to choose either its ...
第 x 頁
... America should commit its forces and focus its energies.Thus it has become a national priority to learn more about ... American foreign policy in the post–Cold War era. It complements works we have supported on specific areas such as ...
... America should commit its forces and focus its energies.Thus it has become a national priority to learn more about ... American foreign policy in the post–Cold War era. It complements works we have supported on specific areas such as ...
第 xi 頁
... American interests since the end of the Soviet regime. In this context, the optimal conditions for decisionmaking at the highest levels of American government involve a sharp increase in knowledge about many new issues related to ...
... American interests since the end of the Soviet regime. In this context, the optimal conditions for decisionmaking at the highest levels of American government involve a sharp increase in knowledge about many new issues related to ...
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... Americans had little reason to care about this strand of Asia and its contentious states, most of them once imperial bagatelle, formerly ruled by Russia, Britain, Persia or Ottoman Turkey. Post-9/II, as the American and allied military ...
... Americans had little reason to care about this strand of Asia and its contentious states, most of them once imperial bagatelle, formerly ruled by Russia, Britain, Persia or Ottoman Turkey. Post-9/II, as the American and allied military ...
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II | 29 |
III | 51 |
IV | 83 |
V | 113 |
VI | 139 |
VII | 169 |
Epilogue | 199 |
Notes on Sources | 215 |
Select Bibliography | 225 |
Acknowledgments | 235 |
Permissions | 238 |
Index | 239 |
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