… Religious diversity, the end of colonial rule, and rising nationalism have led to regional conflicts in the Middle … Diplomacy/International Relations …
Review of Empires and Anarchies: A History of Oil in the Middle East, by Michael Quentin Morton (London: Reaktion Books, 2017)
… U.S.’s desire to promote its regional interests in a post-Soviet era. Without these details, Morton’s description of … to anti-Western sentiment that later defined the region’s nationalist movements. While Morton points to some of these … larger role in Morton’s narrative because the anti-Western nationalist movements were spurred by feelings of …
… parties and from across the U.S. gathered to form the National Women’s Political Caucus (NWPC). One of the … following year, in 1975, the United Nations declared “ International Year of the Woman .” Grasso’s election, as the …
Review of Islamist Terrorism in Europe: A History, by Petter Nesser (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015)
… of “Afghan-Arab” networks by Arab mujahideen fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan , which eventually gave birth to Al … France flight 8969 on December 26th 1994. While the Afghan-Soviet War created a jihadist threat to Europe, Nesser …
Review of In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, The Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement, by Michael Lienesch (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2007)
… of myths. Fundamentalists began to unite across denominational boundaries in order to defend their faith and their …