(Free) The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in The Asian Heartland (Century Foundation Book)
✿ Karl E. Meyer ✿
| #1660722 in Books | PublicAffairs | 2004-07-07 | 2004-07-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.25 x.75 x5.50l,.85 | File Name: 1586482416 | 288 pages |
||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| a geopolitical primer|By Bob Newman|Karl Meyer has been both a journalist and an academic and it shows. He has an eye for the big picture, he puts his finger on the main issues, and doesn't hesitate to criticize policy decisions where need be. Unlike many journalists, he takes knowledge of history and culture as vital to understanding current events. In these things, he's an|From Publishers Weekly|Meyer, editor of World Policy Journal and a longtime member of the New York Times editorial board, draws on his extensive knowledge to trace the histories of several south, central and west Asian countries that are now of critical importa
When Charles de Gaulle learned that France's former colonies in Africa had chosen independence, the great general shrugged dismissively, "They are the dust of empire." But as Americans have learned, particles of dust from remote and seemingly medieval countries can, at great human and material cost, jam the gears of a superpower.
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