A History of the World From the 20th to the 21st Century

stock, and accounting firms had been creative in passing accounts. Arthur Anderson, one of the most respected, went bust as a co ...

evil’ speech two years later adding Iran to the rogue countries. President Bush is no simpleton causing amuse- ment because of h ...

and the Jews. Until Osama bin Laden settled in Afghanistan under the protection of the Taliban regime, the US and the West had t ...

The change of administrations in Washington and 9/11 broke the charade of UN resolutions and Saddam’s non-compliance. Intelligen ...

2002 and the new parliament would not permit ground forces through its territory and was alarmed that a war with Iraq would lead ...

about a change of regime. Saddam was an affront, a ruthless dictator. He would finish the business begun by his father who had a ...

missile bombardment directed at Saddam’s palaces, as well as the ministries and command centres. Inevitably there were innocent ...

The US and Britain expected to be greeted as liberators. Saddam’s brutal repression and murder of tens of thousands of Iraqis fo ...

away from trying to reach an agreement; he feared loss of control and an assassin’s bullet if he com- promised. Instead, he veer ...

all violence. After a short truce, violence resumed with Hamas killing twenty Israelis on a bus in August 2003. Arab neighbours, ...

Gaza and a few settlements on the West Bank back on track for 2005. The Palestinians elected the more pragmatic Mahmoud Abbas in ...

independence until the beginning of the 1980s were ineffectual and the country remained eco- nomically dependent on France. The ...

Who will replace him? Confrontation between the majority of moderates in the majlis and the unelected clerics was resolved by fo ...

to develop in the West. Even with the accelera- tion of historical change since 1945, it will take time before the Middle East’s ...

intertwined and recruits ‘martyrs’ among the Saudi Arabian youth. Fifteen of the nineteen hijackers responsible for the atrociti ...

earlier hoped to construct and was received as a prodigal son by Western leaders. Sanctions were lifted and with Western investm ...

It is strange that at about the time of a new century the world moves in a different direction, not exactly in 1901 or 2001 but ...

elections for the presidency in November 2004 convincingly against Senator John Kerry, the Democratic contender. It was a victor ...

recognising that the future of China depends on it. In March 2004 private property rights were declared ‘inviolable’. What is le ...

Party was returned with an increased majority. With a four-year term and a working majority Roh is in a position to push through ...