BOOK REVIEW: USA and The New Middle East

Abstract

When the world met with what was really going on in Iraq through the public disclosure of the Abu Ghraib incident in the mass media, in one of my second year courses, despite the common abhorrence, most of the students agreed that the torturers were personally not responsible for the violence since they were doing their jobs, acting professionally, obeying the commands of the authorities.

Keywords

USA, New Middle East, Neoliberal Capitalism, Human Rights, Poverty

Citation

International Relations, Volume 6, Issue 23, Fall 2009, p. 151 - 155

Affiliations

• Simten Coşar, Assoc. Prof. Dr., Başkent University, Department of Political Science and International Relations