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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... Muslims hold sway. Today, when both policymakers and large segments of the public have a keen curiosity about organizations and nations that previously were on the periphery of our interest and attention, it makes good sense to ...
... Muslims hold sway. Today, when both policymakers and large segments of the public have a keen curiosity about organizations and nations that previously were on the periphery of our interest and attention, it makes good sense to ...
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... Muslims. German traders spread through eastern, western, and southern Africa, a forward policy underscored in 1895 by the famous “Kruger telegram” in which Wilhelm II im– plied he would back the Boer president, Paul Kruger, against ...
... Muslims. German traders spread through eastern, western, and southern Africa, a forward policy underscored in 1895 by the famous “Kruger telegram” in which Wilhelm II im– plied he would back the Boer president, Paul Kruger, against ...
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... Muslims as their ruling partners, the British estranged the majority Shiite majority and alienated mountain Kurds who had been promised a state of their own. Iraqis of all persuasions contested a treaty that embedded British bases and ...
... Muslims as their ruling partners, the British estranged the majority Shiite majority and alienated mountain Kurds who had been promised a state of their own. Iraqis of all persuasions contested a treaty that embedded British bases and ...
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... Muslims and im– pressed by his eloquence and sparkling eyes, his followers multiplied. His legend grew when a powerful ... Muslim world. With the death of Gordon, the Sudan was theirs. Six months later, the Mahdi too was dead, but the ...
... Muslims and im– pressed by his eloquence and sparkling eyes, his followers multiplied. His legend grew when a powerful ... Muslim world. With the death of Gordon, the Sudan was theirs. Six months later, the Mahdi too was dead, but the ...
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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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