The bitter taste of hope : ideals, ideologies, and interests in the age of Obama /
President Barack Obama was elected to office on a wave of hope. With his tenure as President of the United States now concluded it is time to take stock of his record at home and abroad. The Bitter Taste of Hope is a collection of essays that critically evaluate America's domestic landscape on...
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| Định dạng: | Licensed eBooks |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2017]
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| Loạt: | SUNY series in new political science.
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18252388 |
Mục lục:
- 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 Kettős 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 Conflict10 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 Tehran25 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.