Stephen Kinzer, a former New York Times bureau chief in Istanbul, teaches international relations at Boston University. He is writing a book about John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles. (August 2011)
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Triumphant Turkey?
August 18, 2011
Turkey and the Dilemma of EU Accession: When Religion Meets Politics
by Mirela Bogdani
The Mobilization of Political Islam in Turkey
by Banu Eligur
Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity: A History, 1789–2007
by Carter Vaughn Findley
Streets of Memory: Landscape, Tolerance, and National Identity in Istanbul
by Amy Mills
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Life Under the Ortegas
June 12, 2008
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Rwanda: An Exchange
May 31, 2007
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Big Gamble in Rwanda
March 29, 2007
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
by Roméo Dallaire, with a foreword by Samantha Power
The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide
by Gérard Prunier
Imagined Olympians: Body Culture and Colonial Representation in Rwanda
by John Bale
Silent Accomplice: The Untold Story of France’s Role in Rwandan Genocide
by Andrew Wallis
An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography
by Paul Rusesabagina with Tom Zoellner
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The Trouble with Costa Rica
June 8, 2006
The Costa Rica Reader: History, Culture, Politics
edited by Steven Palmer and Iván Molina
Foreign Investment, Development, and Globalization: Can Costa Rica Become Ireland?
by Eva Paus
La Miel de los Mudos, y Otros Cuentos Ticos de Ciencia Ficción by Iván Molina Jiménez
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Kurds in Turkey: The Big Change
January 12, 2006
The Kurds in Turkey: EU Accession and Human Rights
by Kerim Yildiz, with a foreword by Noam Chomsky
Spoils of War: The Human Cost of America’s Arms Trade
by John Tirman
The Turks Today
by Andrew Mango
Voices from the Front: Turkish Soldiers on the War with the Kurdish Guerrillas
by Nadire Mater, translated from the Turkish by Ayse Gul Altinay, with a foreword by Cynthia Enloe
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Clouds Over Iran
March 24, 2005
In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran
by Christopher de Bellaigue
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Will Turkey Make It?
July 15, 2004
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Downfall in Nicaragua
July 17, 2003
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An Exchange on John Negroponte
October 18, 2001
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Our Man in Honduras
September 20, 2001
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Country Without Heroes
July 19, 2001
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Guatemala: The Unfinished Peace
June 21, 2001
Of Centaurs and Doves: Guatemala’s Peace Process Susanne Jonas
Los Difíciles Senderos de la Paz en Guatemala Gudrun Molkentin
Memoria Verdad y Esperanza: Version Popular del Informe Guatemala: Nunca Más a report by the Archbishopric of Guatemala
El Guerrillero y el General: Rodrigo Asturias y Julio Balconi Sobre la Guerra y la Paz en Guatemala Dirk Kruijt and Rudie Van Meurs
El Drama de la Pobreza en Guatemala: Sus Rasgos y Efectos Sobre la Sociedad a report by the government of the Republic of Guatemala
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Self-Portrait of a Revolutionary
December 3, 1992
The Patient Impatience: from boyhood to guerrilla: a personal narrative of Nicaragua’s struggle for liberation by Tomás Borge
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A New Direction for Turkey's Democracy?
August 3, 2011
My report from Turkey in the current New York Review of Books asserts that civilian power in that country has “emerged from the shadow of military power, a breakthrough of historic proportions.” The July 29 resignation of Turkey’s four top military commanders was a capitulation to that reality. It is likely to lead to something Turkey has never known: civilian control of the military.