Brian Katulis's Books

Seven Pillars

What Really Causes Instability in the Middle East?

By: Michael Rubin,Brian Katulis

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Seven Pillars

What Really Causes Instability in the Middle East?

By: Michael Rubin,Brian Katulis

For decades, US foreign policy in the Middle East has been on autopilot: Seek Arab-Israeli peace, fight terrorism, and urge regimes to respect human rights. Every US administration puts its own spin on these initiatives, but none has successfully resolved the region’s fundamental problems. In Seven Pillars: What Really Causes Instability in the Middle East? a bipartisan group of leading experts representing several academic and policy disciplines unravel the core causes of instability in the Middle East and North Africa. Why have some countries been immune to the Arab Spring? Which governments enjoy the most legitimacy and why? With more than half the region under 30 years of age, why does education and innovation lag? How do resource economies, crony capitalism, and inequality drive conflict? Are ethnic and sectarian fault lines the key factor, or are these more products of political and economic instability? And what are the wellsprings of extremism that threaten not only the United States but, more profoundly, the people of the region? The answers to these questions should help policymakers and students of the region understand the Middle East on its own terms, rather than just through a partisan or diplomatic lens. Understanding the pillars of instability in the region can allow the United States and its allies to rethink their own priorities, adjust policy, recalibrate their programs, and finally begin to chip away at core challenges facing the Middle East. Contributors: Thanassis Cambanis Michael A. Fahy Florence Gaub Danielle Pletka Bilal Wahab A. Kadir Yildirim

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

178

Publisher

AEI Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0844750263

ISBN 13

9780844750262

Democracy's Think Tank

The Institute for Policy Studies and Progressive Foreign Policy

By: Brian S. Mueller

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Democracy's Think Tank

The Institute for Policy Studies and Progressive Foreign Policy

By: Brian S. Mueller

In Democracy's Think Tank, Brian S. Mueller places the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) at the center of a network of activists involved in making the world safe for diversity. Unlike defense intellectuals at the RAND Corporation and other think tanks responsible for formulating military strategy, the "peace intellectuals" at IPS developed blueprints for an alternative to the U.S.-led world order. As the Iron Curtain fell across Eastern Europe, a triumphalist Cold War narrative emerged proclaiming victory for freedom, democracy, and free enterprise over totalitarianism. Yet for the peace intellectuals at IPS, the occasion did not merit celebration. Since its doors opened in 1963, IPS refused to embrace American exceptionalism and waged a battle against the Cold War and its liberal anti-communist supporters. As IPS founders Marcus Raskin and Richard Barnet saw it, in the process of fighting communism and preserving the liberal capitalist order, Cold War liberals had forsaken democracy. Democracy's Think Tank tells the story of IPS's crusade to resurrect democracy at home and abroad. Borrowing from populist, progressive, and New Left traditions, IPS challenged elite expertise and sought to restore power to "the people." To this end, IPS, in the words of journalist I. F. Stone, served as the "institute for the rest of us." Mueller tells the story of IPS's involvement in a broad range of grassroots campaigns aimed at ending the Cold War and increasing participatory democracy in the United States and across the globe. Contemporary observers seeking an alternative to American empire in the twenty-first century will find Democracy's Think Tank offers several possible paths toward a more democratic order.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

289

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0812299604

ISBN 13

9780812299601

Seven Pillars

What Really Causes Instability in the Middle East?

By: Michael Rubin,Brian Katulis

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Seven Pillars

What Really Causes Instability in the Middle East?

By: Michael Rubin,Brian Katulis

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

178

Publisher

AEI Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0844750263

ISBN 13

9780844750262

Freedom of the Press 2004

A Global Survey of Media Independence

By: Freedom House (U.S.)

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Freedom of the Press 2004

A Global Survey of Media Independence

By: Freedom House (U.S.)

Freedom of the press 2003 : a global survey of media independence / Edited by Karin Deutsch Karlekar with essays by Brian Katulis, Jeremy Druker and Dean Cox, and Ronald Koven.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

218

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

0742536491

ISBN 13

9780742536494

Book's by Brian Katulis

Seven Pillars

Seven Pillars

Democracy's Think Tank

Democracy's Think Tank

Seven Pillars

Seven Pillars

Freedom of the Press 2004

Freedom of the Press 2004

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email