Amazon Kindleでは、
The Persian Puzzle
をはじめとする200万冊以上の本をご利用いただけます。 詳細はこちら
 | 会員なら、この商品は10%Amazonポイント還元 （ポイントが表示されている場合は、表示ポイント＋10％還元）。 |
商品の説明
内容紹介
In his highly influential book The Threatening Storm, bestselling author Kenneth Pollack both informed and defined the national debate about Iraq. Now, in The Persian Puzzle, published to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Iran hostage crisis, he examines the behind-the-scenes story of the tumultuous relationship between Iran and the United States, and weighs options for the future.
Here Pollack, a former CIA analyst and National Security Council official, brings his keen analysis and insider perspective to the long and ongoing clash between the United States and Iran, beginning with the fall of the shah and the seizure of the American embassy in Tehran in 1979. Pollack examines all the major events in U.S.-Iran relations–including the hostage crisis, the U.S. tilt toward Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, the Iran-Contra scandal, American-Iranian military tensions in 1987 and 1988, the covert Iranian war against U.S. interests in the Persian Gulf that culminated in the 1996 Khobar Towers terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia, and recent U.S.-Iran skirmishes over Afghanistan and Iraq.
He explains the strategies and motives from American and Iranian perspectives and tells how each crisis colored the thinking of both countries’ leadership as they shaped and reshaped their policies over time. Pollack also describes efforts by moderates of various stripes to try to find some way past animosities to create a new dynamic in Iranian-American relations, only to find that when one side was ready for such a step, the other side fell short.
With balanced tone and insight, Pollack explains how the United States and Iran reached this impasse; why this relationship is critical to regional, global, and U.S. interests; and what basic political choices are available as we deal with this important but deeply troubled country.
Here Pollack, a former CIA analyst and National Security Council official, brings his keen analysis and insider perspective to the long and ongoing clash between the United States and Iran, beginning with the fall of the shah and the seizure of the American embassy in Tehran in 1979. Pollack examines all the major events in U.S.-Iran relations–including the hostage crisis, the U.S. tilt toward Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, the Iran-Contra scandal, American-Iranian military tensions in 1987 and 1988, the covert Iranian war against U.S. interests in the Persian Gulf that culminated in the 1996 Khobar Towers terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia, and recent U.S.-Iran skirmishes over Afghanistan and Iraq.
He explains the strategies and motives from American and Iranian perspectives and tells how each crisis colored the thinking of both countries’ leadership as they shaped and reshaped their policies over time. Pollack also describes efforts by moderates of various stripes to try to find some way past animosities to create a new dynamic in Iranian-American relations, only to find that when one side was ready for such a step, the other side fell short.
With balanced tone and insight, Pollack explains how the United States and Iran reached this impasse; why this relationship is critical to regional, global, and U.S. interests; and what basic political choices are available as we deal with this important but deeply troubled country.
レビュー
Praise for Kenneth M. Pollack and The Threatening Storm
“It is fair to say that whatever your feelings about the question of Iraq, you owe it to yourself to read Mr. Pollack’s book, which is both hawkish and judicious. . . . Mr. Pollack has written a timely book that should be read as the public debate on Iraq continues.”
–RICHARD BERNSTEIN, The New York Times
“Pollack manages to eschew the cant, stupidity, and obfuscation which are the common currency of much of the current public debate over Iraq policy and has produced one of the key books–probably the key book–for anyone trying to grapple with the Iraq question.”
–JOSHUA MICAH MARSHALL, The Washington Monthly
“The Threatening Storm is both a primer on Iraq and a fascinating insider’s view of American attempts to meet the threat it poses.”
–ASLA AYDINTASBAS, The Wall Street Journal
“Knowledgeable, convincingly argued, well documented.”
–DOUGLAS PORCH, The Washington Post Book World
“It is fair to say that whatever your feelings about the question of Iraq, you owe it to yourself to read Mr. Pollack’s book, which is both hawkish and judicious. . . . Mr. Pollack has written a timely book that should be read as the public debate on Iraq continues.”
–RICHARD BERNSTEIN, The New York Times
“Pollack manages to eschew the cant, stupidity, and obfuscation which are the common currency of much of the current public debate over Iraq policy and has produced one of the key books–probably the key book–for anyone trying to grapple with the Iraq question.”
–JOSHUA MICAH MARSHALL, The Washington Monthly
“The Threatening Storm is both a primer on Iraq and a fascinating insider’s view of American attempts to meet the threat it poses.”
–ASLA AYDINTASBAS, The Wall Street Journal
“Knowledgeable, convincingly argued, well documented.”
–DOUGLAS PORCH, The Washington Post Book World
登録情報
|
この本のなか見！検索より
（詳細はこちら）
カスタマーレビュー
Amazon.com で最も参考になったカスタマーレビュー (beta)
Amazon.com:
5つ星のうち 4.0
40件のカスタマーレビュー
6 人中、6人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
5つ星のうち 4.0
Essential
2006/7/31
By Osman Din
- (Amazon.com)
形式:ペーパーバック
Just finished reading it -- great book!
The author's analysis is objective & professional. Probably 50% of policy books today have some kind of serious bias, but I found Mr Pollack's assumptions to be fair & his conclusions to be well-reasoned. He seems to have a good command on different sociological, psychological, political and religious aspects of the Iranian society, and he presents his case without relying on guess work or unsubstainted/dishonest assertions.
I do think, however, that Mr. Pollack should have included more material on the role of Sunni-Shiite tension within the Islamic world, and its effect on Iran's policies. In addition, the author could have focused more on the perceptions Muslims in other countries have about the US & Israel. After all, while devising a strategy for relations with Iran, it is imperative that such basic complexities are considered.
The author's analysis is objective & professional. Probably 50% of policy books today have some kind of serious bias, but I found Mr Pollack's assumptions to be fair & his conclusions to be well-reasoned. He seems to have a good command on different sociological, psychological, political and religious aspects of the Iranian society, and he presents his case without relying on guess work or unsubstainted/dishonest assertions.
I do think, however, that Mr. Pollack should have included more material on the role of Sunni-Shiite tension within the Islamic world, and its effect on Iran's policies. In addition, the author could have focused more on the perceptions Muslims in other countries have about the US & Israel. After all, while devising a strategy for relations with Iran, it is imperative that such basic complexities are considered.
21 人中、16人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
5つ星のうち 5.0
Former Marine off Iran in 1980
2005/3/3
By J. Bancroft
- (Amazon.com)
形式:ハードカバー
I am halfway through this book and find it quite fascinating. The history of how Iran was abused through the ages is unheard of in our hemisphere.
Knowing how England and Russia played games with Iran helps understand the paranoia that Iran had thinking that we were pulling the strings of the Shah: Iranians had a right to be paranoid.
I just wish we were as powerful as they thought, we would have either propped up the Shah or brought down Khomeni.
This book is an easy read, well written, filled with facts and quotes from the time periods mentioned.
It is a scholarly book, not one for a sunny day unless you want to sit down and study it, it is a serious history, not a novel.
[...]
Knowing how England and Russia played games with Iran helps understand the paranoia that Iran had thinking that we were pulling the strings of the Shah: Iranians had a right to be paranoid.
I just wish we were as powerful as they thought, we would have either propped up the Shah or brought down Khomeni.
This book is an easy read, well written, filled with facts and quotes from the time periods mentioned.
It is a scholarly book, not one for a sunny day unless you want to sit down and study it, it is a serious history, not a novel.
[...]
7 人中、6人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
5つ星のうち 4.0
Great book!
2006/3/7
By TheBookOfHonor
- (Amazon.com)
形式:ペーパーバック
This is a great book. Overall, this book is excellent, informative, educational and certainly worthwhile to read.
THE PERSIAN PUZZLE provides a clear and balanced overview and description of the historical and evolving relationship between the U.S. and Iran (this is not a book about the history of Iran, but instead its relationship with America), as well as each side's perception of the other and related world events.
Took off one star in the rating for two reasons:
(1). though the author does an excellent job in giving the reader an understanding of the historical U.S.-Iran relationship, he does not necessarily tell this story in the broader context of other world events, e.g., the Cold War, to name just one, and the interplay between these other events/actors and the U.S.-Iran relationship [the U.S.'s relationship with Iran is just one of many, but the reader is given a somewhat narrow lense to interpret events described in the book]; for a book that's 425 pages, too much of it "leads the reader to believe" that this bilateral relationship occurred in a vacuum -- external factors aren't brought in to the equation (at least not in-depth) to possibly give perspective to decisions or actions.
(2). the book concludes (50 pages) with the author's strategy for U.S. policy towards Iran. This isn't so much a criticism of the author's conclusions or suggestions -- it's more that his recommendations aren't very bold or enlightening. He recommends a 3-track approach, with each track nothing more than a small/large increase of the preceding track (almost "just more of the same"). At a minimum, not sure why this last chapter took up 50 pages when most of its conclusions and recommendations were gradually outlined in prior chapters.
This is a book that everyone should read. As the author himself notes in the book, Americans just don't know much, if anything at all, of the historical relationship between these two nations over the last 50+ years.
THE PERSIAN PUZZLE provides a clear and balanced overview and description of the historical and evolving relationship between the U.S. and Iran (this is not a book about the history of Iran, but instead its relationship with America), as well as each side's perception of the other and related world events.
Took off one star in the rating for two reasons:
(1). though the author does an excellent job in giving the reader an understanding of the historical U.S.-Iran relationship, he does not necessarily tell this story in the broader context of other world events, e.g., the Cold War, to name just one, and the interplay between these other events/actors and the U.S.-Iran relationship [the U.S.'s relationship with Iran is just one of many, but the reader is given a somewhat narrow lense to interpret events described in the book]; for a book that's 425 pages, too much of it "leads the reader to believe" that this bilateral relationship occurred in a vacuum -- external factors aren't brought in to the equation (at least not in-depth) to possibly give perspective to decisions or actions.
(2). the book concludes (50 pages) with the author's strategy for U.S. policy towards Iran. This isn't so much a criticism of the author's conclusions or suggestions -- it's more that his recommendations aren't very bold or enlightening. He recommends a 3-track approach, with each track nothing more than a small/large increase of the preceding track (almost "just more of the same"). At a minimum, not sure why this last chapter took up 50 pages when most of its conclusions and recommendations were gradually outlined in prior chapters.
This is a book that everyone should read. As the author himself notes in the book, Americans just don't know much, if anything at all, of the historical relationship between these two nations over the last 50+ years.
›
Amazon.comのカスタマーレビューを見る(40)
5つ星のうち 4.0
これらのレビューは参考になりましたか？
ご意見はクチコミでお聞かせください。
リストマニア
関連商品を探す
- 洋書 > History
- 洋書 > Nonfiction > Current Events > International
- 洋書 > Nonfiction > Politics
- 洋書 > Special Features > all foreign books
フィードバック
- カタログ情報、または画像について報告
- 著者からのコメント
- 出版社からのコメント
|
