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A Time to Act
The Partial Reformer
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of ChinaBy Ezra F. Vogel (Belknap Press, 876 pp., $39.95) Revolutionaries get all the attention, but reform is much harder. A reformer has to reshape a rigid structure without breaking it. Before Deng Xiaoping, only Kemal Atatürk in the twentieth century managed to do this. Others, like Nasser and the Shah of Iran, left key parts of the old system intact, or, like Gorbachev, destroyed the regime in trying to save it. READ MORE >>
The Complicated Links Between Mormonism and Judaism
I commented long ago in The Spine about the courtship between fundamentalist Christianity and Israel. READ MORE >>
Feebleness at the UN, Extremism in Nigeria
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Is Egypt’s Government Malicious or Incompetent?
A Tour of Egypt’s Half-Finished Revolution
Obama’s ‘Hawkish’ Foreign Policy? If Only It Were So.
A Plea For U.S. Intervention From a Syrian Activist
This is a contribution to ‘What Should the United States Do About Syria?: A TNR Symposium.’ READ MORE >>
Why Libya Isn’t a Model for Syria
This is a contribution to ‘What Should the United States Do About Syria?: A TNR Symposium.’ READ MORE >>
