Review: Palestine: peace not apartheid By JIMMY CARTER (New York, Simon & Schuster, 2006), 264 pp. Cloth, $27.00. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine By ILAN PAPPE (Oxford, Oneworld Publications Limited, 2006), 313 pp. Paper, £16.99

Race & Class ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-101
Author(s):  
Nancy Murray
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Ethnic Cleansing ◽  
Jimmy Carter

Book Reviews

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-228
Author(s):  
Martin Van Bruinessen ◽  
Michael M. Gunter ◽  
Joost Jongerden ◽  
Michiel Leezenberg ◽  
Stanley Thangaraj
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Ethnic Cleansing ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
City College ◽  
Tennessee Technological University ◽  
Technological University

Michael M. Gunter (ed.), Routledge Handbook on the Kurds, London and New York: Routledge, 2019, 483 pp., (ISBN: 9781138646643). Reviewed by Martin van Bruinessen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Kardo Bokani, Social Communication and Kurdish Political Mobilisation in Turkey, Balti, Republic of Moldova: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2017, 252 pp., (ISBN: 978-3-330-33239-3) Reviewed by Michael M. Gunter, Tennessee Technological University, United States Emel Elif Tugdar & Serhun Al, eds., Comparative Kurdish Politics in the Middle East: Actors, Ideas, and Interests, Cham: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2018, pp. 235, (ISBN: 978-3319537146) Reviewed by Joost Jongerden, Wageningen University, The Netherlands Christoph Markiewicz, The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam: Persian Emigres and the Making of Ottoman Sovereignty, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, 364 pp, (9781108684842). Reviewed by Michiel Leezenberg, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Thomas Schmidinger, The Battle for the Mountain of the Kurds: Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in the Afrin Region of Rojava, Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2019, 192 pp. (ISBN: 978-1629636511). Reviewed by Stanley Thangaraj, City College of New York, United States

Izzy and the Other Zionism

Worldview ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-49
Author(s):  
Mark Bruzonsky
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Middle East ◽  
The Other ◽  
Jimmy Carter ◽  
York Review

Shortly after Camp David, The New York Review of Books blessed the Egyptian- Israeli deal Jimmy Carter had stumbled on. I.F. (Izzy) Stone's by-line heralding Camp David as "The Hope" neutralized legions of skeptics. "This is the beginning of peace between Israel and the Arabs and that is a prime event of history," Izzy proclaimed.That issue of NYRB arrived just as I was leaving for London, and I took it along on the flight. I was impressed, though not fully convinced, by Izzy's enlightened prophecy. I had just written for Worldview my own rather restrained judgment that "At best the Carter-inspired formula is an uneasy, unstable beginning to what might eventually become a firmer Middle East accommodation.

scholarly journals Stories of Menacing Globalization

1998 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 119-127
Author(s):  
Kurt Burch
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World Economy ◽  
New World ◽  
World Order ◽  
Ethnic Cleansing ◽  
State University ◽  
New World Order ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Global Condition

Susan Strange (1996) The Retreat of the State: The Drfision of Power inthe World Economy. New York, Ny: Cambridge University Press. 218pages. $16.95 paperback.Martin J. Beck Matustik (1998) Specters of Liberation: Great ReMals inthe New World Order Albany, Ny: State University of New York Press.360 pages. $23.95 paperback.In 1996, Philip Cerny wrote in the International Journal that globalizationliterature is a set of contested stories that frame the categories andconcepts informing public debate. Retreat and Specters tell such stories toshape perceptions of globalization as a threat demanding vigorous scholarlyattention and creative political responses. Both books depict globalizationas a frightening menace heralding social tumult; dislocation; “ayawning hole of non-authority” (Strange, p. 14); and a terrifying legacy of“economic immiseration, political oppression, cultural marginalization,and racial and ethnic cleansing” (Matustik, p. x). Strange outlines potentialthreats, leaving readers to conjure responses. Matustik seeks to openthe conceptual space necessary to craft alternative conditions, leavingreaders to specify the threats and imagine how to achieve alternatives.Neither author explains or analyzes globalization. Strange disdains globalizationas no more than empty jargon, and describes it as an economicand technological phenomenon with political consequences. Matustik considersit to be social with political and cultural consequences.Both authors address prevailing stories of globalization as much asglobal conditions. Each exhorts readers to confront globalization byexploring the gritty reality and actual conditions confronting individuals,rather than by accepting prevailing stories. Thus, each confirms Cerny’s claim (1996:260) that globalization is more significant as a contested discoursethan as an analytical literature or global condition. In this light, onedoes well to read Strange and Matustik as storytellers and to ask if theirinterpretive tales reflect one’s experiences and impressions of global life.Unsurprisingly, both authors tell only partial tales, but each poses worthyquestions ...

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