After 9/11: Leading Political Thinkers about the World, the U.S. and Themselves : : 17 Conversations / / Tobias Endler

After 9/11 presents 17 interviews with America´s leading political thinkers. Renowned experts such as Zbigniew Brzezinski, Francis Fukuyama, and Noam Chomsky discuss the nation's foreign policy in the post-9/11 world. Yet, they also comment on their own role in US society - and the mounting cha...

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Year of Publication:2011
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (219 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • "Listen to no voice but your own" / Benjamin R. Barber
  • "Identify what the problem is" / John Bolton
  • "I say what is on my mind" / Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • "You have to be sufficiently subordinate to power" / Noam Chomsky
  • "9/11 created a very 'teachable' moment" / Jean Bethke Elshtain
  • "I just didn't like being a bureaucrat" / Francis Fukuyama
  • "Get people to see possibilities" / Robert O. Keohane
  • "People who are in a sense bilingual" / James M. Lindsay
  • "You better know about man and the different ranges" / Michael Novak
  • "There still is a desire to have some reality checks" / Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
  • "There is such a thing as too much democracy" / Clyde V. Prestowitz, Jr.
  • "In the wake of a trauma, there is a demand for narratives" / Anne-Marie Slaughter
  • "9/11 woke the country up" / Nancy Soderberg
  • "I am not crazy about that term" / Strobe Talbott
  • "Critical distance is measured in inches" / Michael Walzer
  • "A blues man in the life of the mind, and a jazz man in the world of ideas" / Cornel West
  • "We are desperately in need of public deliberation" / Howard Zinn.