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u/therecordcorrected · 2 pointsr/worldevents

I would be impressed if a bernout recognized a Pulitzer Prize winning author before mouthing off. But then spouting off is what they are good at. Pretty sure she doesn't need a journalism degree when Applebaum was an editor at The Spectator, and a columnist for both The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph. She also wrote for The Independent. Working for The Economist, she provided coverage of important social and political transitions in Eastern Europe, both before and after the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In 1992, she was awarded the Charles Douglas-Home Memorial Trust Award. Applebaum lived in London and Warsaw during the 1990s and was, for several years, a columnist for London's Evening Standard newspaper. She wrote about both foreign and domestic policy issues. She earned a BA (summa cum laude) at Yale University (1986), where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. As a Marshall Scholar at the London School of Economics she earned a master's degree in international relations (1987).

Awards and honors

  • 2004 Pulitzer Prize (General Non-Fiction), Gulag: A History 2010 Petőfi Prize
  • 2012 National Book Award (Nonfiction), finalist, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–1956
  • 2013 Cundill Prize, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–1956
  • 2013 Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–1956

    So I am feeling pretty good about her knowledge on the topic while I am feeling that given you have contributed nothing but snark on the topic so far, that you know absolutely nothing about it. And given all your comments on Reddit, that seems to be true in general. Nothing but snark, conspiracies, unwillingness to believe documented evidence, no ability demonstrated at all for deep thinking on any subject. I think you need to read this book that is coming out soon as it might give you pause on future comments out here, or at least it should:

    https://www.amazon.com/Death-Expertise-Campaign-Established-Knowledge/dp/0190469412/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1446038305&sr=8-1&keywords=death+of+expertise
u/ImAVibration · 2 pointsr/worldevents

Ha!, I used to live there (went to University in Seoul) but I literally just finished writing a paper about this exact subject not more than 45 minutes ago. (Paper was more specifically about Park Chung-Hee's success at industrialization during his regime 1961-1979). Anyways, one of my sources is excellently written, and is focused on post Korean War modern history New Korea,

There are definitely better books out there, so keep looking, but this might be a good place to start.

u/blackstar9000 · 2 pointsr/worldevents

This opens an interesting question that we really haven't sorted out yet: To what degree do we want to include the U.S. in /r/worldevents?

Currently, /r/worldnews and /r/politics exclude U.S. stories altogether, on the premise that the U.S. gets plenty of coverage elsewhere. The same logic could apply here, although, I wonder if our emphasis on more in-depth analysis doesn't call for a different approach. If there isn't already a subreddit that handles really in-depth analysis of the context of U.S. stories, maybe that's a niche we can fill. What do the subscribers to /r/worldevents think?

Personally, I'm not opposed to including the U.S. in our purview. I'd just want to make sure that those submissions aren't so numerous as to drown out submissions about less visible regions.

Addressing the OP's request: I always recommend two authors, Edmond S. Morgan and Richard Hofstadter. Probably no two historians have been as influential in exploring the development of American thought and policy. A good place to start with Morgan is The Challenge of the American Revolution; for Hofstadter, The American Political Tradition.

There are a couple of other very illuminating books I'd also recommend. One is The Rise to Globalism by Stephen Ambrose and Douglas Brinkley, which charts the growth of the U.S. into a global superpower, with special emphasis on the evolution of our military philosophy and involvement. Another is The Invasion of America, by Francis Jennings, a not altogether unproblematic book, but one that helped to reshape our perceptions about the initial contacts between Native Americans and the Europeans who would come to displace them as the dominant culture on the continent.

If you want to name some more specific topics in American history that interest you, I may able to come up with some better suggestions.

u/casualfactors · 2 pointsr/worldevents

Willing to take bets that there will not be a "World War III" in my lifetime, or in the lifetime of anyone living under the present international order.

Throughout the Great Recession, China dutifully abided by global trade standards. The US and WTO effectively cowed China into ending its currency manipulation. When Pakistan came to China asking for bailouts China refused, telling Pakistan's leaders to work through the IMF instead. China is not an aggressive rising hegemon. It is a regional power that began the 20th century low on the marginal growth curve. America's continued dominance of global financial institutions easily dictated terms to China. Drezner has a good book on that.

The President who effectively wiped out a generation of al Qaeda leadership, put boots on the ground throughout central Africa, began training guerrilla groups in Syria, ended nuclear hostilities with Iran and effectively drove a wedge between North Korea and China (a wedge to which Chinese leadership handily acquiesced) can hardly be accused of "making America weak." America outperformed the rest of the world in its economic recovery and clearly still projects force across the world. The Taliban's unusually weak fighting season this past year and the successful negotiations between Afghanistan's competing electoral parties indicates that the US may indeed have succeeded where the Soviet Union failed in Afghanistan. America has no effective military challengers and is at least as strong as it has ever been. This is despite the clearly foolish decision to invade Iraq.

Having leadership momentarily projecting hegomonic rhetoric seems to be pretty much where the similarities between Germany-1914, Germany-1936 and Russia-2014 end. Putin is not a smart leader and his country's economic output is suffering from his party's foolish decisions. Russia is not an industrial juggernaut. Its economic status quo survives by dint of eastern Europe's fading need for cheap energy. Russia does not pose a threat to the international order.

The international alliance system is not secret. Financial institutions responded to the Great Recession by becoming more receptive to the demands of BRICs and the third world, ensuring their longevity. The crisis did not see a closing of international trade or of national borders, in general. Had this author written five years ago he probably would've fixated on Ahmadinejad or Chavez. Now Putin is the tinpot du jour. It will be someone else in five years. Whoever one trots out as an example of a potential catalyst of global war, the underlying premises and assumptions are wrong. The international order strengthened as a result of the Great Recession, China did not spoil it, America's enemies are weaker while America is stronger, and Russia is suffering from its bad leaders.

u/[deleted] · 2 pointsr/worldevents

For anyone interested in investigating this further, check out The Case for Democracy. Written by a survivor of the Gulag, it helped to form the basis for this freedom agenda. I've thought about it a lot given current events.

u/marcus91swe · 11 pointsr/worldevents

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Stuff is pretty expensive but the fact that there is now a market for it will help lower the prices etc

u/Pas__ · 6 pointsr/worldevents

WTF? How is it speculation? I live in a country with national health care.

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Doctors quality is not directly tied to salary. Their salary is tied to supply and demand.

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There are many many cheaper ways to get good quality health care other than to offer ludicrous amounts of money to some doctors. ( https://www.amazon.com/Drive-Surprising-Truth-About-Motivates/dp/1594484805 http://freakonomics.com/medicine-healthcare/ )

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And, maybe you have missed all the rest of my comment, but even if you keep salaries of doctors constant, if you remove the rent earned by current HMOs, you get a ~40% cheaper system.

u/TheGhostOfTzvika · -8 pointsr/worldevents

Theoretically, yes, unless they're citizens. Don't hold your breath, though. Some sort of really, really, really super-duper serious misrepresentation had to have taken place during the asylum process for the US Immigration and Naturalization Service to send someone back to country they came from.


(Ann Coulter discusses immigration issues in her 2015 book, ¡Adios, America!)

u/cosmical · 6 pointsr/worldevents

Juan Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is author of Engaging the Muslim World and Napoleon's Egypt. He has been a regular guest on PBS's News Hour and has also appeared on ABC Nightly News, Nightline, the TODAY show, Charlie Rose, Anderson Cooper 360, Rachel Maddow, the Colbert Report, Democracy Now!, Aljazeera America and many others.

He has commented extensively on al-Qaeda and the Taliban, Iraq, the politics of Pakistan and Afghanistan, Syria, and Iranian domestic struggles and foreign affairs. He has a regular column on the TruthDig.com. Visit JuanCole.com.

> The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation is Changing the Middle East
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>The renowned blogger and Middle East expert Juan Cole illuminates the role of today's Arab youth — who they are, what they want, and how they will affect world politics.
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>Beginning in January 2011, the revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests, riots, and civil wars that comprised what many call "the Arab Spring" shook the world. These upheavals were spearheaded by youth movements, and yet the crucial role they played is relatively unknown. Middle East expert Juan Cole is here to share their stories.
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>For three decades, Cole has sought to put the relationship of the West and the Muslim world in historical context. In The New Arabs he outlines the history that led to the dramatic changes in the region, and explores how a new generation of men and women are using innovative notions of personal rights to challenge the authoritarianism, corruption, and stagnation that had afflicted their societies.
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>Not all big cohorts of teenagers and twenty-somethings necessarily produce movements centered on their identity as youth, with a generational set of organizations, symbols, and demands rooted at least partially in the distinctive problems besetting people of their age. The Arab Millennials did. And, in a provocative and optimistic argument about the future of the Arab world, The New Arabs shows just how they did it.

u/BobTaft · 3 pointsr/worldevents

I disagree thouroughly. There has been a tremendous disinformation campaign used against Iran and mostly instigated by Israel.

Read these books by the historian, Gareth Porter

Here is an article about one of Porter's books

and "Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare"

read some of this journalism before believing Mr. Clapper who we know is in the habit of lying under oath.