Facing Disaster in the Middle East: Is There a Way Out?
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Former Boston Globe and New York Times reporter Stephen Kinzer calls for a sweeping “reset” of American policy in the Middle East. The U.S. confronts escalating challenges there, not only from the Israel-Arab conflict but also from Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He lays out ideas for a new approach in his latest book, "Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America’s Future," which will be available for sale and signing.
"Because we're so accustomed to bad news from the Middle East, trouble seems inevitable. "Reset" suggests that needn't be so,” says the Chicago Tribune. “But can anybody hear its lucid, historically grounded points above the shouting and the gunfire?”
Kinzer covered Latin America for The Boston Globe before moving to the New York Times in 1983 to report on 50 countries over more than 20 years there. While covering world events, he has been shot at, jailed, beaten by police, tear-gassed and bombed from the air. Today, he teaches journalism and political science at Northwestern University and writes for GlobalPost, the Guardian (London) and numerous other major media.
His other books include "A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It" (2008), "Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq" (2006), "All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror" (2003), "Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds" (2001), "Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua" (1991), and "Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala" (coauthor, 1982).