Category Archives: Good Reads

Good Reads – The Modern History of Iraq

Phebe Marr’s The Modern History of Iraq (Westview Press, 2012) Review and author interview by George Gavrilis Please click here for a printer-friendly PDF version of this page. Writing a historical survey of any country is no easy task.  This … Continue reading →

Good Reads – After Defeat

After Defeat: How the East Learned to Live with the West  (Cambridge University Press, 2011) Ayşe Zarakol Review and author interview by George Gavrilis Please click here for a printer-friendly PDF version of this page.  In 1933, a year when … Continue reading →

Good Reads – Great Games, Local Rules

  Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia (Oxford University Press, 2012) Alexander Cooley Review and author interview by George Gavrilis, Executive Director of the Hollings Center Please click here for a printer-friendly PDF version of … Continue reading →

Good Reads – Dead Men Risen

Dead Men Risen: The Welsh Guards and the Real Story of Britain’s War in Afghanistan (Quercus: October 2011) Toby Harnden Review and author interview by George Gavrilis, Executive Director of the Hollings Center Please click here for a printer-friendly PDF … Continue reading →

Good Reads – Kabul Girls Soccer Club

Awista Ayub Review and author interview by Sanem Güner Please click here for a printer-friendly PDF version of this page. The London 2012 Olympics are a few months away. For most of us, it is just another great sports spectacle. … Continue reading →

Good Reads – Afghanistan’s Troubled Transition

 Afghanistan’s Troubled Transition: Politics, Peacekeeping, and the 2004 Presidential Election Scott Seward Smith Review and author interview by George Gavrilis, Executive Director of the Hollings Center Please click here for a printer-friendly PDF version of this page. Scott Seward Smith’s … Continue reading →