Jean-Pierre Filiu
Autore di Il mio miglior nemico: storie delle relazioni tra Stati Uniti e Medio Oriente: prima parte 1783/1953
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Opere di Jean-Pierre Filiu
Il mio miglior nemico: storie delle relazioni tra Stati Uniti e Medio Oriente: prima parte 1783/1953 (2011) 79 copie
From Deep State to Islamic State: The Arab Counter-Revolution and its Jihadi Legacy (Ceri Series in Comparative… (1836) 27 copie
The Arab Revolution: Ten Lessons from the Democratic Uprising (Comparative Politics and International Studies) (1794) 26 copie
Comment la Palestine fut perdue: Et pourquoi Israël n'a pas gagné. Histoire d'un conflit (XIXe-XXIe siècle) (French… (2024) 3 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1961-12-19
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- France
- Luogo di nascita
- Paris, France
- Attività lavorative
- professor
diplomat
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 27
- Utenti
- 335
- Popolarità
- #71,019
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 5
- ISBN
- 69
- Lingue
- 10
As for the substance, what the cover calls "a political history" is inside the book called "a secular history," and that's the big diff with other books -- yeah, Islam with its caliphates, Zionism, Christians, etc, are mentioned (by the way, I object to the misrepresentation of Christian Zionists), but the analysis and portrayal tries to keep things secular -- for me I just ignore that gimmick, and appreciate the book for the facts. I also object to other opinions stated as facts without support (rare use of citations), but no biggie for the informed reader. Using something from 21st century to explain what I mean: author in mentioning Iran's green movement (2009 or so), says without citation that Obama kept a low profile, breaking away from what he calls neocon regime change policies of Bush, BUT, reader needs to be careful to note, that is an opinion, there are other ways of looking at the exact same set of facts and finding the exact opposite -- for ex, if one considers that Obama had supply-dependent military right next door in landlocked Afghanistan at that very hot war time (where arguably regime change or at least neocon nation building was still a continuing matter), Obama's failure to act in that Iran opportunity could possibly be explained in other ways. That's all I'm saying, the book is great for facts, but opinions are stated as facts without cites, that's all. The author said America's folly in Iraq was "aggravated by the messianic fever of the Christian Zionists, determined to defeat the Muslim Antichrist" -- super far out comment there; I know of some people (not Christian Zionists themselves) in pushing such nonsense of a Muslim Antichrist, but that's a totally fringe thing to say about Christian Zionists, particularly in the context of the Iraq War. Bottom line, the book is great for discerning readers with some background.… (altro)