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Two Guardian Columns on Turkey-Armenia Genocide Vote Harms US-Turkey Ties The Guardian, March 5, 2010 Was the 1915 killing of Armenians genocide? The question is debatable, but it's not for the US Congress to decide. Turkey Should Pause Before a Mirror The Guardian, March 5, 2010 Amid the finger-pointing, let's recall how Turkey helped push the US Congress committee toward its vote on Armenian genocide. |
Forthcoming Book Available for Pre-order Stephen Kinzer's next book, "Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future", is now available for pre-order here The bestselling author of "Overthrow" offers a new and surprising vision for rebuilding America's strategic partnerships in the Middle East. What can the United States do to help realize its dream of a peaceful, democratic Middle East? Stephen Kinzer offers a surprising answer in this paradigm-shifting book. Two countries in the region, he argues, are America's logical partners in the twenty-first century: Turkey and Iran. Besides proposing this new "power triangle," Kinzer also recommends that the United States reshape relations with its two traditional Middle East allies, Israel and Saudi Arabia. This book provides a penetrating, timely critique of America's approach to the world's most volatile region, and offers a startling alternative. Kinzer is a master storyteller with an eye for grand characters and illuminating historical detail. In this book he introduces us to larger-than-life figures, like a Nebraska schoolteacher who became a martyr to democracy in Iran, a Turkish radical who transformed his country and Islam forever, and a colorful parade of princes, politicians, women of the world, spies, oppressors, liberators, and dreamers. Kinzer's provocative new view of the Middle East is the rare book that will richly entertain while moving a vital policy debate beyond the stale alternatives of the last fifty years. "A vivid account underscoring the persistent folly of Western, and especially U.S. policy in the Middle East. This is history with bite and immediacy. Yet Stephen Kinzer sees cause for hope: The possibility of change exists if we but seize it." – Andrew J. Bacevich, author of The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
I read and relished Stephen Kinzer's Reset – kudos to him for approaching the enduring problem of the Middle East in a fresh way. Even old hands may learn something new in these fluent, timely, and provocative pages. –Karl E. Meyer, coauthor of Tournament of Shadows and Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East
Does the United States have nothing but bad choices in the Middle East? Stephen Kinzer says we have attractive choices if our leaders will just abandon the premises of the Cold War and look instead at opportunities in front of their eyes. Kinzer elaborates grand ideas in the conversational voice of a story-teller and challenges conventional wisdom in the most reasonable tones. But let the reader beware: He will make you think, and you may never see the region in quite the same way again. –Gary Sick, senior research scholar, Columbia University, and author of All Fall Down: America's Tragic Encounter with Iran
Stephen Kinzer's Reset argues that contradictory U.S. policies in the Middle East are producing serial disasters. He recounts with verve the dramatic historical events and the vivid personalities that brought us to these straits, and argues for a new realism about the rapid rise of Iran and Turkey as regional superpowers challenging the old, dysfunctional bargains struck in the twentieth century. This book is a must-read for anyone concerned with the future of the United States in the Middle East. –Juan Cole, professor of history, University of Michigan, and author of Napoleon's Egypt and Engaging the Muslim World
Stephen Kinzer's deep knowledge of the Middle East is complemented by his lucid style and new ideas. He sees Turkey as a key state for the region and the world, suggests new and innovative ways to deal with Saudi Arabia and Iran, and calls for the United States to play a much more robust and determined role in the Arab-Israeli peace process. His historical perspective and trenchant analysis make Reset an informative read for experts and newcomers alike. –Thomas R. Pickering, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and under secretary of state for political affairs
Kinzer re-imagines the world and America's role in it. –Robert Lacey, author of Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia |
The Limits of Free Speech in Rwanda The Guardian, March 2, 2010 The country's president claims that laws against disseminating 'genocide ideology' are necessary to stop a return to violence. |
Martin Savidge hosts journalist and author Stephen Kinzer and human rights activist Noel Twagiramungu (audio link) |
February 26, 2010 The World's Marco Werman interviews Stephen Kinzer about his forthcoming book "Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future" |
Clinton Clings to Bush Ideals on Iran The Guardian, February 16, 2010 The US policy of engagement with Iran never got off the ground and now Hillary Clinton has resorted to Bush-era sabre-rattling |
Chicago Amplified - WBEZ Chicago (audio link)
Prolific author, former New York Times bureau chief and correspondent and Northwestern University lecturer Stephen Kinzer speaks on Iran Turkey and the U.S.: Power Triangle of the 21st Century. He discusses this new "power triangle" and explains how it could help calm crises from Palestine to Iraq to Afghanistan--if only the US would break out of what he calls "the prison of old policies, assumptions and alliances." Recorded Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at Film Row Cinema, Chicago |
Protests In Iran Mark 31 Years Since Revolution The Takeaway - February 11, 2010 (audio link) |
Boston Globe, February 16, 2010
Visiting any country after an absence of 25 years naturally offers a host of then-and-now contrasts. |
The Guardian, January 22, 2010 With a social safety net but fewer freedoms, is life better in Cuba than in its capitalist Caribbean basin neighbors? |
An evocative new film, The Desert of Forbidden Art, about a treasure trove of art gathered at a museum in the Central Asian steppe, features commentary by Stephen Kinzer. |
Stephen Kinzer argues that it shares strategic and democratic interests with the U.S. Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan. 21, 2010 |
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Interview with examiner.com · Jan. 22, 2010 |
The Guardian, January 7, 2010 Cuba's revolution once inspired the world, but political stagnation has left it a poor, hungry backwater. |
Washington Post, November 22, 2009 Review of God Sleeps in Rwanda: A Journey of Transformation, by Joseph Sebarenzi |
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Stephen Kinzer's class questions Paul Kagame, in real time. |
Boston Globe, October 15, 2009 No country's diplomats are as welcome in both Tehran and Jerusalem, Moscow and Tblisi, Damascus and Cairo. As a Muslim country intimately familiar with the region around it, Turkey can go places, engage partners, and make deals that the United States cannot. |
Broadcast Sept. 28, 2009 on KQED, San Francisco Discussion about US-Iran relations after news of new advances in the Iranian nuclear program; other guests are Dr. Abbas Milani of Stanford University and Tom Graham, former director of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Persian Version |
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