LAST CHANCE: THE MIDDLE EAST IN THE BALANCE
Book ID/图书代码: 06545012B53814
English Summary/英文概要: As Barack Obama seeks to chart a new course in American foreign policy, one of the English language media’s most respected authorities on the Arab world, David Gardner, addresses the controversial but urgent question: why is the Middle East so dysfunctional? And what can be done about it? Clear-sighted, never flinching from unpalatable truths, Gardner draws on his acute grasp of history and decades of experience covering the region to look at why conflict, despotism, and sectarianism continue to flourish in the Arab world while they decline everywhere else. The "Middle East exception" is, he argues, a product of the West’s own making. By supporting tyrants, fuelling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and demonizing democratically elected Islamist parties, the West in general but specifically America has incubated a region inherently resistant to economic and political reform, and suppurating with resentment. As the Obama administration plans its Middle East policy, Gardner argues for nothing less than a total reappraisal of what realpolitik means. The traditional shibboleths: support Israel, mollify the Saudis, suppress Islamism, simply will not do in the 21st century, he argues. Both an introduction to the modern Middle East and an impassioned polemic,Last Chanceis essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of the region.
Chinese Summary/中文概要: 当巴拉克.奥巴马正在寻求制定一种关于新的美国的外交政策时,在英语媒体界最受尊敬的阿拉伯领导者,大卫.加德纳,提出了一个有争议但又紧迫的问题:为什么中东如此动荡不安?我们到底能为此做些什么?头脑清新的人,绝不会在令人不快的真相前退缩,加德纳敏锐地指出了为什么地区冲突、专制和宗派主义在阿拉伯世界蓬勃发展而在其它地方却日渐消亡的历史原因。“中东是个例外”,他认为,这是西方世界自己造成的一种后果。通过资助暴君,加剧巴以冲突,丑化伊斯兰政党的民主选举,西方国家特别是美国造就了这个地区对经济及政治改革的抵制及仇恨的情绪。作为奥巴马政府计划的中东政策,加德纳认为没有什么比去重新思考这种政治策略到底意味着什么更重要了。传统的策略:支持以色列,安抚沙特阿拉伯,压制伊斯兰主义,在21世纪将不会那么容易起作用了,他认为。不论是帮助中东现代化的人还是充满激情的辩论,最后的机会是任何关心这块地区未来的人的必备读物。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况:“《最后的机会:中东和平》,作者大卫.加德纳,由于其客观的分析及对该地区政治格局,具有一定的权威性和认可度。”——阿沙尔克报
“及时、有吸引力、有启发性,《最后的机会》可以作为21世纪关注中东未来以及了解中东问题的重要参考”——史莱姆,牛津大学圣东尼学院的国际关系教授
“大卫.加德纳的书是最有趣的,囊括了中东近几年出现的有争论的问题。它具有指导性和娱乐性,但它也使许多读者勃然大怒,因为他总是击中要害。要想了解这块动荡的地区,这是一个必读物。大卫.加德纳是英国顶尖的外交事务专家。他资料来源是独一无二的,他涉及范围较广其中包括他对西方世界对阿拉伯独裁统治的纵容和不作为的起诉。”——帕特里克.西尔
About the Author/作者介绍: 大卫.加德纳是首席作家并且也是《金融时报》的副主编。他从1995-1999主笔中东编辑。2003年,他因其关于阿拉伯世纪的政治新闻报道赢得了大卫.瓦特奖。David Gardner is Chief Leader Writer and Associate Editor at the Financial Times. He was the paper’s Middle East Editor from 1995-1999. In 2003, he won the David Watt prize for political journalism for his writing on the Arab world.
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