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Titre(s) de couverture: Sahelistan: de la Libye au Mali, au coeur du nouveau Jihad

By the late 1960s, in a Europe divided by the Cold War and challenged by global revolution in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, thousands of young people threw themselves into activism to change both the world and themselves. This new and exciting study of 'Europe's 1968' is based on the rich oral histories of nearly 500 former activists collected by an international team of historians across fourteen countries. Activists' own voices reflect on how they were drawn into activism, how they worked and struggled together, how they combined the political and the personal in their lives, and the pride or regret with which they look back on those momentous years. Themes explored include generational revolt and activists' relationship with their families, the meanings of revolution, transnational encounters and spaces of revolt, faith and radicalism, dropping out, gender and sexuality, and revolutionary violence

In Someplace Like America, writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S. Williamson take us to the working-class heart of America, bringing to life-through shoe leather reporting, memoir, vivid stories, stunning photographs, and thoughtful analysis-the deepening crises of poverty and homelessness. The story begins in 1980, when the authors joined forces to cover the America being ignored by the mainstream media-people living on the margins and losing their jobs as a result of deindustrialization. Since then, Maharidge and Williamson have traveled more than half a million miles to in

Focusing on an area of the savannah in northern Ghana and southwestern Burkina Faso, Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa explores how rural populations have secured, contested, and negotiated access to land and how they have organized their communities despite being constantly on the move as farmers or migrant laborers. Carola Lentz seeks to understand how those who claim native status hold sway over others who are perceived to have come later. As conflicts over land, agriculture, and labor have multiplied in Africa, Lentz shows how politics and power play decisive roles in determi

Introduction / by Charles Gati -- Part One. From the Ivy League... -- Zbig, Henry, and the new U.S. foreign policy elite / Justin Vaisse -- The fall of totalitarianism and the rise of Zbigniew Brzezinski / David C. Engerman -- Anticipating the grand failure / Mark Kramer -- Part Two. To the National Security Council -- Setting the stage for the current era / David Rothkopf -- Beijing's friend, Moscow's foe / Warren I. Cohen and Nancy Bernkopf Tucker -- The caricature and the man / Robert A. Pastor -- Dealing with the Middle East / William B. Quandt -- Working hard, having fun at the NSC / Robert Hunter -- The evening report / James Thomson -- Part Three. The policy advocate -- Brzezinski, the Pope, and the "plot" to free Poland / Patrick Vaughan -- Witnessing the grand failure in Moscow, 1989 / Marin Strmecki -- Brzezinski and Iraq : the makings of a dove / James Mann -- Solving the Arab-Israeli Conflict / David Ignatius -- The strategic thinker / Adam Garfinkle -- Part Four. Portraits -- The professor / Stephen F. Szabo -- An appreciation / Francis Fukuyama -- A self-assessment / In conversation with Charles Gati -- Chronology of major events in Zbigniew Brzezinski's life -- List of contributors