Irene Gendzier: 3 books
Dying to Forget
Oil, Power, Palestine, and the Foundations of U.S. Policy in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Irene L. Gendzier presents incontrovertible evidence that oil politics played a significant role in the founding of Israel, the policy then adopted by the United States toward Palestinians, and subsequent U.S. involvement in the region. Consulting declassified U.S. government sources, as well as papers...
Planetary Politics
Human Rights, Terror, and Global Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2005
Global society has been analyzed in any number of ways: books dealing with its economic and cultural implications flood the market. But Planetary Politics highlights something unique. It explores globalization with an eye on the transformation of politics into a planetary enterprise. Unifying this...
Development Against Democracy - New Edition
Manipulating Political Change in the Third World
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2017
This new, updated edition of the influential Development Against Democracy is a critical guide to postwar studies of modernisation and development. In the mid-twentieth century, models of development studies were products of postwar American policy. They focused on newly independent states in the Global...