Stephen Kinzer
Stephen Kinzer
Stephen Kinzeris an American author, journalist and academic. A former newspaper reporter, the veteran New York Times correspondent has filed stories from more than fifty countries on five continents, as well as published several books...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth4 August 1951
CountryUnited States of America
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In the 1980s, the U.S. Army invaded two Caribbean countries, Grenada and Panama, to depose leaders who had defied Washington.
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In some countries that are darlings of the West, like Egypt, everyone knows the result of national elections years in advance: The man in power always wins. In others, like Saudi Arabia, the very idea of an election is unthinkable.
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Canada, Australia and New Zealand have apologised for their treatment of native peoples.
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Iranians launched their constitutional revolution in 1906 and established their parliament soon afterward.
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In 1907, Britain and Russia signed a treaty dividing Iran between them; no Iranian was at the negotiations or even knew they were taking place.
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Iran's most formidable modern leader, Reza Shah Pahlavi, was obsessed with the idea of building a steel mill, but in 1941, soon after he assembled all the components, Allied armies invaded Iran, and the project had to be abandoned.
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When Prime Minister Erdogan came to Washington in 2009, he sounded almost like the ambassador from Iran.
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Saudi Arabia supplies much oil to the U.S. And it is the world's largest consumer of American weaponry.
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During the Reagan Administration, so much attention was devoted to fighting Marxism in Nicaragua and El Salvador that Washington lost sight of longer-term challenges in other countries.
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During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Latin America moved decisively away from military rule and toward civilian democracy.
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No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.
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Sultan Mehmet had good relations with the Medici family and other powerful Italian clans, especially in Venice and Florence, and at his request, they sent him artists and craftsmen by the dozen.
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Sultan Beyazid considered his father's art collection decadent and ordered it sold at auction.
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As British and French imperialism ebbed following the end of the Second World War, America became the main outside player in Arab affairs.