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Charles de Gaulle died in 1970 at the age of eighty.
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January 1993 |
Elie Kedourie |
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In 1927 the French man of letters, Julien Benda, published a short book entitled La Trahison des Clercs. The phrase, trahison des clercs, henceforward passed into common discourse to denote and condemn the subordination of scholarship or speculation to some political interest or commitment. Benda's book soon appeared in English under the title, The Treason of the Intellectuals.
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August 1992 |
Elie Kedourie |
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World War II, many historians have argued, was an unnecessary war.
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June 1991 |
Elie Kedourie |
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Looking back on Israel's fortieth birthday, one of the issues which the existence of the state has created is that of who is a Jew. The issue is a legal one, but it is also an existential issue in the widest sense, which concerns anyone who is a Jew--whether he accepts or
ignores or rejects such an identification or appelation.
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June 1988 |
Elie Kedourie |
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From World War I on, the Middle East has presented foreign and native policymakers with a large number of awkward and perplexing situations. The resolution of these dilemmas has generally led to failure and loss, not only with respect to the interests which the policy-makers had set out to protect, but also for groups and communities in the Middle East who were willy-nilly affected by the fallout from these decisions.
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November 1986 |
Elie Kedourie |
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Arabism and Zionism are ideologies. They offer a blueprint for political action based on historical arguments which purport to establish the true character of, respectively, Arabs and Jews. They are, then, nationalist ideologies. Yet they are also the results of the relationship between nationalism and religion, and their outcomes are not the same.
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June 1986 |
Elie Kedourie |
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When Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten of Burma was murdered by Irish terrorists in the summer of 1979, he was an old man full of honors, who could look back with satisfaction on a long life filled with achievement. Philip Ziegler has indeed done him proud, with a long and copious life-well proportioned, lucid, and very readable. Do we rise from the almost 800 pages of this work convinced of Mountbatten's greatness-greatness as one thinks of it when, say, Churchill or Wellington comes to mind? Is this the impression of the man which the attentive reader carries away with him from a study of Ziegler's researches?
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December 1985 |
Elie Kedourie |
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Daniel Pipes's book is divided into three parts. He begins by delineating the premodern legacy of Islam, he goes on to describe the encounter of Islam and the West with all the problems which this encounter entailed for Muslims, and he examines the characteristics of the Islamic revival which in recent years has taken the world by surprise.
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August 1984 |
Reviewed by Elie Kedourie |
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Before 1914 world politics was very much the politics of European states. The balance of power was destroyed during the war of 1914, and the Versailles settlement which followed, instead of reestablishing this balance, put the seal on its irremediable destruction.
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December 1980 |
Elie Kedourie |
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The five years or so which have elapsed since the Yom Kippur War have seen the United States sustain two very serious setbacks in the Middle East. Nobody can tell what the repercussions of these remarkable events will turn out to be, but it is sure beyond peradventure that U.S. interests and U.S. influence in the region will have sustained a severe blow.
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July 1979 |
Elie Kedourie |
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During his lifetime, and even more so after his death, Colonel T. E. Lawrence, "Lawrence of Arabia," was the subject of a great deal of curiosity and speculation.
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July 1977 |
Elie Kedourie |
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In the course of the last few years the intellectual classes of the West have been giving voice to doom-laden prophecies about Western civilization, lamenting (or rejoicing at) the decay of "capitalism," denouncing the weakness and corruption of "democratic" government. May the similar forebodings of the 70's ultimately have for their basis the same doctrine, which today more than ever is without serious rival as the opium of Western intellectuals?
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November 1976 |
Elie Kedourie |
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THE ORDINARY READER today sees the Arabs most frequently as part of the underdeveloped world: poor, turbulent, given to coups d'itat, and perpetually at odds with their Israeli neighbors. They...
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December 1962 |
Reviewed by Elie Kedourie |
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MR. HALPERN'S treatise sets out to be, not a history of the Zionist movement, or even of Zionist thought, but an analysis, as the word goes, of certain Zionist notions in terms of what "social...
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January 1962 |
Reviewed by Elie Kedourie |
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Ever since the 19th century, when so-called reforms were introduced in the Ottoman Empire, Western observers have watched Middle Eastern politics with hopeful expectancy.
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January 1958 |
Elie Kedourie |
