Noah Feldman
Auteur de Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
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Noah Feldman teaches law at New York University.
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Œuvres de Noah Feldman
Divided by God: America's Church-State Problem--and What We Should Do About It (2005) 173 exemplaires
Ugly americans - The Torture Debate in America 1 exemplaire
The Best Hope 1 exemplaire
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- Date de naissance
- 1970-05-20
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- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA - Études
- Yale Law School (JD|1997)
Oxford University (D.Phil|Islamic Thought|1994)
Harvard College (BA|1992)
Maimondes School - Professions
- Professor of Law, Harvard University
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- Council on Foreign Affairs
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The author's arguments are the following: in the case of Egypt, he asks whether or not the second Tahrir movement, which brought the army into power, was categorically different from the first one which led to elections. In Syria, he wonders who or what should be blamed for the humanitarian disaster. When discussing the Islamic State, he argues that the movement only managed to discredit political Islam. The discussion on Tunisia is more detailed because the author was present in the country when the new political system was built. He explains the probable reasons why Tunisia became the first Arab country where the government and the opposition reached a conciliatory power-sharing compromise and managed a peaceful transition of power from one to the other. The Tunisian system is not perfect, but the author writes that the true tragedy is that what happened in Tunisia could have happened elsewhere but did not. All in all this is definitely a book worth reading if you have an interest in political theory. It is a good bird's-eye complement to more detailed on-the-ground narratives of the Arab spring.… (plus d'informations)