Noah Feldman
Autore di Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
Sull'Autore
Noah Feldman teaches law at New York University.
Fonte dell'immagine: Noah Feldman
Opere di Noah Feldman
The Best Hope 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1970-05-20
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA - Istruzione
- Yale Law School (JD|1997)
Oxford University (D.Phil|Islamic Thought|1994)
Harvard College (BA|1992)
Maimondes School - Attività lavorative
- Professor of Law, Harvard University
- Organizzazioni
- Council on Foreign Affairs
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- Opere
- 13
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 1,163
- Popolarità
- #22,094
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 24
- ISBN
- 46
- Lingue
- 2
- Preferito da
- 1
The author's arguments are the following: in the case of Egypt, he asks whether or not the second Tahrir movement, which brought the army into power, was categorically different from the first one which led to elections. In Syria, he wonders who or what should be blamed for the humanitarian disaster. When discussing the Islamic State, he argues that the movement only managed to discredit political Islam. The discussion on Tunisia is more detailed because the author was present in the country when the new political system was built. He explains the probable reasons why Tunisia became the first Arab country where the government and the opposition reached a conciliatory power-sharing compromise and managed a peaceful transition of power from one to the other. The Tunisian system is not perfect, but the author writes that the true tragedy is that what happened in Tunisia could have happened elsewhere but did not. All in all this is definitely a book worth reading if you have an interest in political theory. It is a good bird's-eye complement to more detailed on-the-ground narratives of the Arab spring.… (altro)