Scholarship or Sophistry? Bernard Lewis and the New Orientalism

CounterPunch, June 28, 2003 Scholarship or Sophistry? Bernard Lewis and the New Orientalism By M. SHAHID ALAM It would appear from the fulsome praise heaped by mainstream reviewers on Bernard Lewis’s most recent and well-timed book, What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response (Oxford University Press, 2002), that the demand for Orientalism has [...]

The world cannot afford a new Cold War (Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono)

The world cannot afford a new Cold War By Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Source: International Herald Tribune  Monday, September 15, 2008 When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the world had enormous expectations  that it would finally harvest peace dividends from the ruins of the Cold  War. Indeed, despite the turbulent transition of the international system, [...]