William R. Polk (1929–2020)
Auteur de Understanding Iraq
A propos de l'auteur
William R. Polk served in the Kennedy administration where he supervised American policy on the Islamic world and was a member of the Crisis Management Committee during the Cuban Missile Crisis. As professor of history at the University of Chicago, he established the Center for Middle Eastern afficher plus Studies. Later, as president of the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs, he helped to organize the "Table Ronde" meeting that laid the groundwork for the European Union and worked on nuclear weapons issues for the Pugwash organization. He was called back to the White House during the 1967 Middle Eastern War to write a draft Peace Treaty and to act as advisor to U.S. National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy. A senior director of the W.P. Carey Foundation, he lives in Vence, France. afficher moins
Œuvres de William R. Polk
Violent Politics: A History of Insurgency, Terrorism, and Guerrilla War, from the American Revolution to Iraq (2007) 123 exemplaires
Understanding Iran: Everything You Need to Know, From Persia to the Islamic Republic, From Cyrus to Ahmadinejad (2009) 81 exemplaires
Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North (2018) 55 exemplaires
The Opening of South Lebanon, 1788-1840; A Study of the Impact of The West on the Middle East (1963) 7 exemplaires
Beginnings of Modernization in the Middle East (Centre for Middle Eastern Studies) (1968) 6 exemplaires
Backdrop To Tragedy: The Struggle For Palestine 1 exemplaire
Políticas violentas una historia de la insurgencia, el terrorismo y la guerra de guerrillas desde la… (2008) 1 exemplaire
Polk's folly - An American Family History 1 exemplaire
El conflicto Israel-Palestina. Vanguardia dossier 25 1 exemplaire
¿Quien manda en el mundo?. Vanguardia dossier 14 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Architecture for the Poor: An Experiment in Rural Egypt (Phoenix Books) (1969) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 100 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Polk, William R.
- Nom légal
- Polk, William Roe
- Date de naissance
- 1929-03-07
- Date de décès
- 2020-04-06
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Fort Worth, Texas, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Vence, France
- Études
- Harvard University (BA ∙ PhD)
University of Oxford (BA ∙ MA) - Professions
- historian
university professor
Middle East envoy - Organisations
- Council on Foreign Relations
University of Chicago
Harvard University
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- 27
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- Membres
- 845
- Popularité
- #30,259
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 11
- ISBN
- 54
- Langues
- 2