Posted on November 21, 2008 by pormadi
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 reached a new peak. [...]
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Posted on September 18, 2008 by pormadi
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, we saw some progress. Relations [...]
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