Patrick Cockburn: 13 books
Henry's Demons
Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son's Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
On a cold February day two months after his twentieth birthday, Henry Cockburn waded into the Newhaven estuary outside Brighton, England, and nearly drowned. Voices, he said, had urged him to do it. Nearly halfway around the world in Afghanistan, journalist Patrick Cockburn learned from his wife,...
La era de la Yihad
El Estado Islámico y la guerra por Oriente Próximo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Desde 2001 hasta hoy, la cobertura que Patrick Cockburn ha venido ofreciendo de los conflictos que han agitado Oriente Próximo y otras regiones no ha tenido parangón.
En sus crónicas, libres de ideas preconcebidas, y en las que se sirve de su amplia experiencia directa y de su profundo conocimiento...
by Patrick Cockburn
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Time magazine listed him as one of its "100 People Who Shape Our World." Newsweek featured him on its cover under the headline "How Al-Sadr May Control U.S. Fate in Iraq." Paul Bremer denounced him as a "Bolshevik Islamist" and ordered that he be captured "dead or alive." Who is Muqtada al-Sadr, and...
by Patrick Cockburn
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Desde 2001, el periodista irlandés Patrick Cockburn ha realizado una cobertura sin parangón de los conflictos que han agitado el Medio Oriente. En sus crónicas, libres de ideas preconcebidas y en las que se sirve de su amplia experiencia directa y de su profundo conocimiento de la historia de la...
IRAQ
The West Shakes Up The Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
In Patrick Cockburn on Iraq: The West Shakes Up The Middle East, The Independent continues its series of History As It Happened books. Over the past 15 years the US and its allies should have had the greatest interest in maintaining a Middle East status quo. But, as Cockburn details in a series of...
The Age of Jihad
Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
From the award-winning author of The Rise of Islamic State, the essential story of the Middle East’s disintegration
The Age of Jihad charts the turmoil of today’s Middle East and the devastating role the West has played in the region from 2001 to the present. Beginning with the US-led invasion...
Arab Spring Then and Now
From Hope to Despair
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Middle East conflict and the Arab Spring: Gain insight and learn from two of the most acclaimed experts on the Middle East
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In December 2010, the “Tunisian Revolution” touched off a wave of protests, riots, revolutions and civil wars throughout the Middle East. Initially...
ISIS
Battling the Menace
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
In Emergence of ISIS: Battling the Menace, Patrick Cockburn provides unique insights into the Islamic State scourge. He traces the origin of ISIS, confronts the horror of its methods, and details its threat to the Middle East and the world at large through a series of his articles published by The Independent.
The Rise of Islamic State
ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
The essential “on the ground” report on the fastest-growing new threat in the Middle East, from the winner of the 2014 Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year Award
Born of the Iraqi and Syrian civil wars, the Islamic State astonished the world in 2014 by creating a powerful new force in...
by Taner Akçam, Cengiz Aktar, Madawi Al-Rasheed
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
The Future of Religious Minorities in the Middle East addresses the domestic and international politics that have created conditions for contemporary religious cleansing in the Middle East. It provides a platform for a host of distinguished scholars, journalists, human rights activists, and political...
El regreso del Jihad
El brazo extremo de AL-QAEDA
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 27, 2015
El 10 de junio de 2014, poco más de un millar de combatientes de Isis logró vencer al ejército iraquí y tomar la ciudad de Mosul, la segunda más próspera y poblada de Irak. Transcurridos pocos meses desde la retirada del ejército estadounidense, la atención mundial volvía a centrarse otra...
by Patrick Cockburn
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 13, 2015
El 10 de junio de 2014, poco más de un millar de combatientes de Isis logró vencer al ejército iraquí y tomar la ciudad de Mosul, la segunda más próspera y poblada de Irak. Transcurridos pocos meses desde la retirada del ejército estadounidense, la atención mundial volvía a centrarse otra...
The Politics of Dependence
Economic Parasites and Vulnerable Lives
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
The central claim of this book is that the dichotomy between economic dependence and economic independence is completely inadequate for describing the political challenges faced by contemporary capitalist welfare states. The simplistic contrast between markets and states as sources of income renders...