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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... million speak it as their mother tongue. It is the language of the Internet and Silicon Valley, of air travel and more than half the world's scientific periodicals; three-fourths of the world's mail is in English, and as the lingua ...
... million speak it as their mother tongue. It is the language of the Internet and Silicon Valley, of air travel and more than half the world's scientific periodicals; three-fourths of the world's mail is in English, and as the lingua ...
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... million 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 ...
... million 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 ...
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... million square miles during her reign and was wired together by newly embedded British telegraph cables and steel rails, its sea-lanes safeguarded by a Royal Navy bigger than any two rivals combined.This expansion was promoted by an ...
... million square miles during her reign and was wired together by newly embedded British telegraph cables and steel rails, its sea-lanes safeguarded by a Royal Navy bigger than any two rivals combined.This expansion was promoted by an ...
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... millions caused by ter– rorist or rogue state use of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons. Why wait until the smoking gun becomes a mushroom cloud: Or as Shawcross and other liberal supporters of the war in Iraq could sensibly add ...
... millions caused by ter– rorist or rogue state use of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons. Why wait until the smoking gun becomes a mushroom cloud: Or as Shawcross and other liberal supporters of the war in Iraq could sensibly add ...
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... millions of people having their hopes raised by what I said. Wilson's second thoughts do him credit. Extending statehood to a hundred-odd entities has not brought the world appreciably closer to peace and prosperity. Even the smallest ...
... millions of people having their hopes raised by what I said. Wilson's second thoughts do him credit. Extending statehood to a hundred-odd entities has not brought the world appreciably closer to peace and prosperity. Even the smallest ...
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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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