“The west, and especially the United States, has shown no serious or sustained interest in the Middle East until the last half century. We tend to be comfortably ignorant of the history of Western interventionism in the region over centuries… — Graham E. Fuller Copy Share Image
“❝Washington — perhaps as many global powers have done in the past — uses what I might call the “immaculate conception” theory of crises abroad. That is, we believe we are essentially out there, just minding our own business, trying… — Graham E. Fuller Copy Share Image
“Yet of course nationalism is always “imagined”; identity is what you think you are.” — Graham E. Fuller Copy Share Image
“It would assume that bilateral problems could be worked out through goodwill, active diplomacy and transparency rather than suspicions and a search for “enemies.” — Graham E. Fuller Copy Share Image
“The west, and especially the United States, has shown no serious or sustained interest in the Middle East until the last half century. We… — Graham E. Fuller Copy Share Image
“As liberal columnist Şahin Alpay points out, however, the fundamental division in Turkish society is not between Islamists and secularists but between those who… — Graham E. Fuller Copy Share Image
“❝Washington — perhaps as many global powers have done in the past — uses what I might call the “immaculate conception” theory of crises… — Graham E. Fuller Copy Share Image
“Governments often keep their populace in permanent states of vigilance or anxiety against foreign enemies as a control mechanism—the politics of fear.” — Graham E. Fuller Copy Share Image
