William R. Polk (1929–2020)
Autor/a de Understanding Iraq
Sobre l'autor
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 mostra'n més 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. mostra'n menys
Obres de William R. Polk
Violent Politics: A History of Insurgency, Terrorism, and Guerrilla War, from the American Revolution to Iraq (2007) 122 exemplars
Understanding Iran: Everything You Need to Know, From Persia to the Islamic Republic, From Cyrus to Ahmadinejad (2009) 80 exemplars
Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North (2018) 55 exemplars
The Opening of South Lebanon, 1788-1840; A Study of the Impact of The West on the Middle East (1963) 7 exemplars
Beginnings of Modernization in the Middle East (Centre for Middle Eastern Studies) (1968) 6 exemplars
Obres associades
An Inconvenient Truth [2006 documentary film] (2006) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 240 exemplars
Architecture for the Poor: An Experiment in Rural Egypt (Phoenix Books) (1969) — Pròleg, algunes edicions — 100 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Polk, William R.
- Nom oficial
- Polk, William Roe
- Data de naixement
- 1929-03-07
- Data de defunció
- 2020-04-06
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Fort Worth, Texas, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Vence, France
- Educació
- Harvard University (BA ∙ PhD)
University of Oxford (BA ∙ MA) - Professions
- historian
university professor
Middle East envoy - Organitzacions
- Council on Foreign Relations
University of Chicago
Harvard University
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 27
- També de
- 2
- Membres
- 843
- Popularitat
- #30,327
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 11
- ISBN
- 54
- Llengües
- 2