Edward Mortimer

Edward Mortimer was until 2006 the Director of Communications in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General. He is a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and Senior Vice President and Chief Program Officer at the Salzburg Global Seminar. (April 2008)

From the Review

April 17, 2008: Big Ideas for a New President

Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership by Madeleine Albright, with Bill Woodward

The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation by Strobe Talbott

The Next American Century: How the US Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise by Nina Hachigian and Mona Sutphen

May 27, 1993: Saying the Unsayable

Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World by Kanan Makiya

May 16, 1991: Iraq: The Road Not Taken

November 22, 1990: Iraq's Chemical Warfare (letter)

September 27, 1990: The Thief of Baghdad

Saddam Hussein: A Biography by Fuad Matar

Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq by Samir al-Khalil

Iraqi Power and US Security in the Middle East by Stephen C. Pelletiere, by Douglas V. Johnson II, by Leif R. Rosenberger

Human Rights in Iraq Middle East Watch

October 9, 1986: The Road Not Taken

The Vanished Imam: Musa al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon by Fouad Ajami

May 29, 1986: Yalta & the Fate of Poland

January 30, 1986: To the Tehran Station

The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran by Roy Mottahedeh

December 22, 1983: The Faraway War

Report from Afghanistan by Gérard Chaliand, translated by Tamar Jacoby

In Afghanistan: An American Odyssey by Jere Van Dyk

A Hitch or Two in Afghanistan: A Journey behind Russian Lines by Nigel Ryan

Behind Russian Lines: An Afghan Journal by Sandy Gall

Afghanistan and the Soviet Union by Henry S. Bradsher

Red Flag over Afghanistan: The Communist Coup, the Soviet Invasion and Their Consequences by Thomas T. Hammond

Books by Edward Mortimer

European Security After the Cold War: An Assessment of the Dangers to Peace in Europe Since the Soviet Collapse, and of the Western Responses They Require (1992)
The Middle East After the Cold War (1992)
The World That Fdr Built: Vision and Reality (1989)
Roosevelt's Children: Tomorrow's World Leaders and Their World (1987)
The Rise of the French Communist Party, 1920-1947 (1984)
Faith and Power: The Politics of Islam (1982)
Faith and Power: The Politics of Islam (1982)
Faith and Power: The Politics of Islam (1982)
France and the Africans 1944-1960: A Political History (1969)