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    Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future

    By Stephen Kinzer

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    The bestselling author of Overthrow offers a new and surprising vision for rebuilding America's strategic partnerships in the Middle East

    What can the United States do to help realize its dream of a peaceful, democratic Middle East? Stephen Kinzer offers a surprising answer in this paradigm-shifting book. Two countries in the region, he argues, are America's logical partners in the twenty-first century: Turkey and Iran.

    Besides proposing this new "power triangle," Kinzer also recommends that the United States reshape relations with its two traditional Middle East allies, Israel and Saudi Arabia. This book provides a penetrating, timely critique of America's approach to the world's most volatile region, and offers a startling alternative.

    Kinzer is a master storyteller with an eye for grand characters and illuminating historical detail. In this book he introduces us to larger-than-life figures, like a Nebraska schoolteacher who became a martyr to democracy in Iran, a Turkish radical who transformed his country and Islam forever, and a colorful parade of princes, politicians, women of the world, spies, oppressors, liberators, and dreamers.

    Kinzer's provocative new view of the Middle East is the rare book that will richly entertain while moving a vital policy debate beyond the stale alternatives of the last fifty years.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateJun 8, 2010
    ISBN9781429948289
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    Stephen Kinzer

    Stephen Kinzer is the author of many books, including The True Flag, The Brothers, Overthrow, and All the Shah’s Men. An award-winning foreign correspondent, he served as the New York Times bureau chief in Nicaragua, Germany, and Turkey. He is a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, and writes a world affairs column for the Boston Globe. He lives in Boston.

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    • 4/5
      Kinzer is an expert on this part of the country. I especially enjoyed his early coverage of Turkey in "Crescent and Star". Kinzer lays out a plan to shift our policies towards these countries. They both have a desire to go back to the days of their initial democratic experiences, but the US has in many ways thwarted this process. The author also lays out a plan for settling the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Essentially, the US has to superimpose a peace process and be willing to back it up. While this book is not an in-depth coverage of these countries, many will find the overview helpful and instead of just reporting he lays out a blueprint for adjusting our relationships with the Middle East countries.
    • 3/5
      Stephen Kinzer's recommendations are sound. Many American policymakers and international relations scholars agree with his conclusions and have given his book glowing blurbs (Andrew Bacevich, Thomas Pickering, Gary Sick, Juan Cold, Robert Lacey). But Reset seems unlikely to persuade the unconvinced because Kinzer radically simplifies history, molding it to simplistic and moralistic narratives built around jaunty vignettes composed of short sentences and imagined dialogue. These he presents with great confidence, as though we were there, as in the juvenile history books of our youth used to say (this is part of Kinzer's self-proclaimed "cheeky fearlessness," perhaps). Such an approach has strengths and weaknesses. It is designed to grasp the reader's imagination; Reset might be a book to give to someone who knows nothing about the Middle East. But it is not a book for a sophisticated reader; while Kinzer presents an impressive bibliography, he often relies on tendentious sources (e.g. psychobiography).