Bronner The Bitter Taste of Hope

Ideals, Ideologies, and Interests in the Age of Obama
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6550-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in New Political Science

Essays that critically evaluate America's domestic and foreign policy landscape since President Obama took office.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bronner, Stephen Eric

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Zentralregierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Obama’s Legacy

Part I: Ideals and Interests

1. Understanding Utopia

2. The Enlightenment Lives!

3. Rosa in Cairo

4. Counter-Revolution, Enlightenment, Republic: A Cosmopolitan Sketch

5. Tolerating Intolerance

6. Albert Camus: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of His Death

7. Immigrants and Refugees: Krisztian Simon Interviews Stephen Eric Bronner for the Hungarian and East European Blog Kettos Mérce

Part II: Murderous Impulses

8. Learning the Ropes: Remarks on the Ideological Preconditions for Genocide

9. Gaza on My Mind: Old Hopes, Mistaken Assumptions, and New Ideas on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

10. Netanyahu’s Rhetoric

11. Garbage People

12. Hidden Nations, Enduring Crimes

13. Visiting Assad

14. A Short Report on Violence in the United States

Part III: Rebellion American Style

15. Socialism in America

16. On Paul Robeson

17. Remembering Fitch: Reflections on a Solitary Syndicalist

18. Tea Time

19. Walking Wall Street

20. Vilifying Frances

21. One-Dimensional Man at Fifty

Part IV: War and Peace

22. The Sovereign

23. The Forest and the Trees: The United States in Afghanistan

24. Talking in Tehran

25. America’s Israel

26. Closing the Deal: America, Iran, and the Nuclear Treaty of 2015

Concluding Thoughts: Human Rights, Political Realism, and the Uses of Power

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Eric Bronner is Board of Governors Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University and the author of many books, including Moments of Decision: Political History and the Crises of Radicalism and The Bigot: Why Prejudice Persists.