This site is dedicated to the work of author and journalist Stephen Kinzer, who the Washington
Post has placed "among the best in popular
foreign policy storytelling."

Latest Guardian Column
Democracy, Made in Iran
The Guardian, June 22, 2009
By reviving memories of an ousted leader, Iran's protesters are signaling they want to win reform without US intervention.

Turkey Set to Play Key Role With US,
Says Turkey Expert
Today's Zaman (Istanbul), June 18, 2009

Democracy Can Unite West, Iran
Politico, June 6, 2009
Because Iranians have had to fight so long and painfully for political freedom, they have a deep appreciation for its value.

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Middle East Trip

Stephen Kinzer will be traveling during June:

June7-12: Saudi Arabia
June 12-18 Turkey (Luncheon speech at Conrad Hotel on 6/15)
June 18-25: Iran
June 25-July 2: Israel

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Regime Change: Promise and Peril
New transcription of a speech delivered in June 2008 to the Future of Freedom Foundation in Washington, DC.
Part 1 • Part 2

How We Helped Create the Afghan Crisis
Boston Globe, March 20, 2009 (link)

Pakistan: The Most Dangerous Country
Ten-Minute Video from Brave New Films • (link)

German-language reviews of "Im Dienste des Schah" – New translation of "All the Shah's Men

http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/kultur_und_medien/
literatur/1680195_Putsch-mit-fatalen-Konsequenzen.html

http://hpd.de/node/6597

http://www.faz.net/s/RubA330E54C3C12410780B68403A11F948B/ Doc~EA1144A03FC9E42D78B43C4D775A847A4~
ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html

New Twelve-Minute Video by Brave New Film
Afghanistan + More Troops = Catastrophe • (link)

New Twelve-Minute Video by Brave New Film
Afghanistan + More Troops = Catastrophe • (link)

New DVD
For several months last year, hundreds of students at the
City Colleges of Chicago studied Stephen Kinzer's "Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change From Hawaii to Iraq." Their discussions, in classrooms and at a specially convened assembly, plus documentary footage from US interventions and interviews with Kinzer, were combined into a four-part television series broadcast on a Chicago public television station, WYCC, in January. A DVD of the series, two hours in total, is available at: http://stores.lulu.com/wycc

Develop Moral Principles and Act As They Dictate
Commencement Addresss - Dominican University
River Forest, IL · Jan. 10, 2009 (link)

Obama May Follow Bush's Foreign Policy
Politico.com, Jan. 9, 2009 (link)

Chicago Sun Times picks 'A Thousand Hills'
as one of the Best Books of 2008
"For a sheer, eye-opening revelation of what's been going on in another part of the world, Stephen Kinzer's "A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It" packs a lot into its 380 pages. Kinzer, a former New York Times foreign correspondent who has worked in more than 50 countries, tells the story of Rwanda's new leader, Paul Kagame, who is trying to turn a nation ravaged by ethnic killing into the star of Africa."

Comments on US relations with Iran and Afghanistan,
in speech to US Labor Against the War conference
Chicago, December 2008

Rwanda versus France
The African nation's attempt to shed French influence has led to a potentially spectacular court case.
Los Angeles Times, Nov. 14, 2008 (link)

The Reality of War in Afghanistan
Despite their differences over how to pursue the US war in Iraq, Senators John McCain and Barack Obama both want to send more American troops to Afghanistan. Both are wrong.
Boston Globe, Oct. 15, 2008 (link)

Inside Iran's Fury.
Scholars trace the nation's antagonism to its history of domination by foregin powers.
Smithsonian Magazine, October 2008 (link)

Stephen Kinzer Has His Own Mission: Writing the Stories of American Intervention.
Chicago Sun-Times, September 21, 2008 (link)

Appearances on C-Span and Chicago Public Radio discussing A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It.
C-Span, BookTV, August 7 2008 (link)
Chicago Public Radio, WorldView, August 8 2008 (link)

Nobel Prize Winner Pamuk praises new edition of "Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds
A revised and expanded edition of "Crescent and Star," originally published in 2002, was released in September 2008. It has been fully rewritten to take into account the sweeping changes that have reshaped Turkey in recent years, and includes an entirely new chapter entitled "Strategic Depth" about Turkey's emerging role as a regional power. "This brilliant book, written with love and empathy, gives the world a perfect opportunity to understand and reflect on Turkey's problems and prospects." --Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Prize in Literature 2006

To order the new edition Click Here

Interview with Light Millennium
on newly revised edition of "Crescent and Star
Ataturk wanted Turkey to practice "peace at home, peace in the world." It has failed to achieve peace at home, but is succeeding in helping to bring peace to other countries. In this sense, Turkey is the opposite of the US, which has achieved peace at home but is constantly involved in wars abroad.
September 5, 2008 (link)

Ortega's Last Straw in Nicaragua
The Sandinista president has gone too far in prosecuting 83-year-old poet Ernesto Cardenal.
Los Angeles Times, Sept 3, 2008 (link)

Reviews of A Thousand Hills
"It is the latest book in which the former New York Times correspondent and current Northwestern University
lecturer takes us to the remoter corners of the world's
geo-political dramas."
Chicafo Tribune, August 2008 (link)

"An account of Kagame's intelligent and passionate views form the backbone of A Thousand Hills."
World Politics Review, August 2008 (link)

"A remarkable tale about a remarkable man."
The Economist, September 21 2008 (link)

"With a journalist's eye for detail and a historian's understanding of context, Kinzer provides a compelling account of the enmity between Hutu and Tutsi since colonial times, and the political machinations of a murderous regime bent on exterminating every single Tutsi. He also offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes history of the secret rebel army in exile and the brilliant strategy that led to the government militia's defeat."
Boston Globe, August 2008 (link)

As part of its campaign against US intervention in Iran, Just Foreign Policy has sent every member of Congress a copy of "All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror." Two JFP organizers, Sarah Burns and Chelsea Mozen, packed each book with a letter from Rep. James McGovern recommending it.