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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... republics, attacked Finland, suppressed the Hungarian revolution, terminated Czechoslovakia's Prague Spring, and ... republic. All that is clear now. Talks on economic and other matters will begin. The departure of troops, etcetera, will ...
... republics, attacked Finland, suppressed the Hungarian revolution, terminated Czechoslovakia's Prague Spring, and ... republic. All that is clear now. Talks on economic and other matters will begin. The departure of troops, etcetera, will ...
第 xiii 頁
... republics."What have we done wrong?” a Latvian delegate asked me at a meeting of NATO parliamentarians. “We've offered to send soldiers to help in the occupation, we've been praised by Donald Rumsfeld, yet we were brusquely notified ...
... republics."What have we done wrong?” a Latvian delegate asked me at a meeting of NATO parliamentarians. “We've offered to send soldiers to help in the occupation, we've been praised by Donald Rumsfeld, yet we were brusquely notified ...
第 xxi 頁
... Republic was in chronic trouble, and as it is close to Cuba the bad influence was felt across the water. Presidents were ... republics, Washington “by its recent policies has allowed a dislike and mistrust of long-standing to grow into ...
... Republic was in chronic trouble, and as it is close to Cuba the bad influence was felt across the water. Presidents were ... republics, Washington “by its recent policies has allowed a dislike and mistrust of long-standing to grow into ...
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... republics, a benison scarcely ever mentioned since it is taken for granted. And the genius of the system has been its reciprocity. Washington has had to comply, or justify breaching the rules it expects others to honor, the highest form ...
... republics, a benison scarcely ever mentioned since it is taken for granted. And the genius of the system has been its reciprocity. Washington has had to comply, or justify breaching the rules it expects others to honor, the highest form ...
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... republics: a contiguous imperium stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Bering Strait. Yet as the twentieth century ended, so did these empires, becoming one with Nineveh and Tyre, their existence terminated by global war, rebellion ...
... republics: a contiguous imperium stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Bering Strait. Yet as the twentieth century ended, so did these empires, becoming one with Nineveh and Tyre, their existence terminated by global war, rebellion ...
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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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