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Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future Hardcover – June 8, 2010

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The bestselling author of Overthrow offers a new and surprising vision for rebuilding America's strategic partnerships in the Middle East

What can the United States do to help realize its dream of a peaceful, democratic Middle East? Stephen Kinzer offers a surprising answer in this paradigm-shifting book. Two countries in the region, he argues, are America's logical partners in the twenty-first century: Turkey and Iran.

Besides proposing this new "power triangle," Kinzer also recommends that the United States reshape relations with its two traditional Middle East allies, Israel and Saudi Arabia. This book provides a penetrating, timely critique of America's approach to the world's most volatile region, and offers a startling alternative.

Kinzer is a master storyteller with an eye for grand characters and illuminating historical detail. In this book he introduces us to larger-than-life figures, like a Nebraska schoolteacher who became a martyr to democracy in Iran, a Turkish radical who transformed his country and Islam forever, and a colorful parade of princes, politicians, women of the world, spies, oppressors, liberators, and dreamers.

Kinzer's provocative new view of the Middle East is the rare book that will richly entertain while moving a vital policy debate beyond the stale alternatives of the last fifty years.

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Customers find the book provides valuable historical and diplomatic insights into the region. They describe it as an engaging, easy read with a passion for the subject matter. Readers praise the writing quality as well-written, articulate, and accessible to the general public. However, some feel the book is too naive and lacks a realistic perspective.

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24 customers mention "History"24 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the book's history and diplomacy of the region. They find the insights valuable and the history clear. The book illuminates the historical and political framework behind America's policies in the Middle East. Readers enjoy how the author draws lessons from history and understands Middle Eastern culture. Overall, they find the book helpful for understanding current dynamics of Middle East affairs.

"...These are major players in the Middle East, which has been an open wound for a while now, affecting every country in different ways and the book..." Read more

"...But overall, I recommend this book to everyone. Wonderful research in history and diplomacy of the region." Read more

"Stephen knocks it out of the park again and again. Worthy of your time and consideration. Have never disliked a Stephen Kinzer book...." Read more

"...When it comes to Turkey and Iran, he provides invaluable insight not easily found elsewhere...." Read more

17 customers mention "Readability"17 positive0 negative

Customers find the book easy to read and engaging. They appreciate the passion and well-crafted content. However, some readers feel the book is strong in certain areas while others find it lacking.

"...it isn't too long and overwhelming either, a good, fun read with a lot to learn from." Read more

"This book, very well, summarizes the history and the evolution of these two countries in the middle east...." Read more

"...am greaful that at least they are put together in such a fantasticly well put together book...." Read more

"...I greatly enjoyed this book as the passion makes it worthy to read and I learned a great deal about Turkey and Iran...." Read more

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Customers find the book's writing engaging and easy to read. They appreciate the clear presentation of the content and the author's balanced writing style. The narrative is coherent and brings the story to life through a great storytelling.

"...It offers a clear, crisp history of all three countries and their relationships with each other...." Read more

"...He is very balanced and articulate. When it comes to Turkey and Iran, he provides invaluable insight not easily found elsewhere...." Read more

"...This book is no different. The content is mind blowing and as you read this you wonder why it's facts are not all over the news?!..." Read more

"...Stephen Kinzer is a very accessible writer for the general public with every book he writes, with his knack for telling the story with a non-..." Read more

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Customers find the book naive and unrealistic. They say it's an interesting read, but falls short of reality.

"...of its promise and his predictions, although timely, seem to fall short of the reality and are more naive than what I expect from Mr Kinzer...." Read more

"...However I found the author to be extraordinarily naive in some of his views...." Read more

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  • Vigolo
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book to Catch up with Current Events
    Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2011
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    I recommend this book hihgly to anyone who doesn't know what the fuss with Iran is about and why Turkey is considered a unique system in its geography and why America is so heavily invested in Israel and where all the anti-American dissent is coming from in the Middle East. If you are like me and confused, yet not convinced by mainstream media and want to add 2 and 2 together to see HOW things got here, this is the book for you. It offers a clear, crisp history of all three countries and their relationships with each other. These are major players in the Middle East, which has been an open wound for a while now, affecting every country in different ways and the book shows you why it is important for them to band up together against much more serious threats. A lot of people called the solutions 'naive' but I don't feel that way at all - history shows us that things can swing this or that way very fast for nations and that people have a very short term memory. The country that enjoyed immense friendship with Iran not too long ago seems oblivious to it now and considers it an archenemy. Why can't things reset and revert again? It sounds very possible to me with the right people in the right places and the world is certainly changing fast enough to make it hopeful. Also, the last chapter might as well have been written just last week - it eerily predicts the wave of democracy and anti-government movement that is happening right now in the Middle East, which proves that it is not making far-fetched, mythical assumptions and has a lot to offer to the curious mind. it isn't too long and overwhelming either, a good, fun read with a lot to learn from.
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  • DR A.
    4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyed thorough analysis of past, present, and future.
    Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2016
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    This book, very well, summarizes the history and the evolution of these two countries in the middle east. Any politician or businessman who wants to deal with these two countries should read this book and use its insight to achieve his goals.
    Toward the last chapters, it became too repetitive of same facts that bore me. The author's other books have been lacking of this repetition. I felt as if he is filling the book! That's why I gave it four stars. But overall, I recommend this book to everyone. Wonderful research in history and diplomacy of the region.
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  • Lethaltruth
    5.0 out of 5 stars Another solid book
    Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2024
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    Stephen knocks it out of the park again and again. Worthy of your time and consideration. Have never disliked a Stephen Kinzer book. This book takes on specific countries such as Turkey, Iran, Israel, and Saudi Arabian and their relation to the USA.
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  • Dr K.
    4.0 out of 5 stars Food for Thought
    Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2016
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    Kinzer is a knowledgeable man who writes clearly, cleanly, and without polemics. Like Blondin, he carefully walks the tightrope of Middle East current events without tumbling into Niagra Falls. He is very balanced and articulate. When it comes to Turkey and Iran, he provides invaluable insight not easily found elsewhere. While he briefly addresses the Israel-Palestine conflict, it is less his forte (though the US State Department would've loved his list of benefits of the 'two-state solution' with a divided Jerusalem). Also, since the book was published in 2010, it is time for an update. Even so, I recommend this book, which sheds much needed light on this most strategic part of the world.
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  • Lycians
    3.0 out of 5 stars Not Mr Kinzer's best work
    Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2012
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    I purchased the Kindle version of this book so there are no photos or illustrations. If the print book has them it MIGHT add a star to my review.

    I agree with a previous review called "Good history, naive policy." I felt this book fell short of those of Mr. Kinzer's previous works I have read. Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds, All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, or Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq were 5 star books for me because of their depth of historical detail and resources referenced. Reset fell short of its promise and his predictions, although timely, seem to fall short of the reality and are more naive than what I expect from Mr Kinzer.

    When I first moved to Turkey over 12 years ago I read Mr Kinzer's book Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds. For far too long the United States and the UK have bungled their involvement in the affairs of the Middle East, mostly to the dismay of its residents and causing anger, hatred and general ill-will toward America and England. Persians and Turks are not Arabs and with the modernity they already have attained, they could be, as Kinzer seems to hope, the leaders of the 21st Century in this troublesome Muslim and oil-rich region. As a former American I would hope that Turkey and Iran could be allies and that they could eventually become the "tails that wag" the American dog and ally with America. I just do not feel he made his case strong enough nor clear enough in this book.

    For anyone not familiar with the history or problems of this region, there are some good historical gems along the way. If you have studied or read previously the history of the Middle East and especially Turkey and Iran, there are few new facts. All that being said, if you have not read any of Mr Kinzer's previous books, then at least try to read this one.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars アメリカ・トルコ・イランのトライアングル同盟は果たして可能か？
    Reviewed in Japan on October 8, 2010
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    　本書で示される論点は大きく分けて次の二点にまとめられる。第一に、トルコとイランの現代史を振り返りながら両国ともに民主化・近代化へと向けた内発的な動きがあったことを示し、その点で欧米とある程度まで価値観の共有される素地があることに注目を促す。モサデク政権転覆工作等で反米感情を高めてしまった経緯はそれこそ「リセット」したい歴史だろう。一方、中東には冷戦期の戦略的目的からアメリカが強力な同盟関係を築いたやっかいな国が二つある。すなわち、イスラエルとサウジ・アラビアの存在はアメリカの対中東関係をこじらせる一因となっている。この不安定な中東世界において仲介役が果たせる国として、近代的な価値観とイスラムとの両方の要素を合わせ持つトルコの存在に注目し、さらにはトルコ・イラン・アメリカのトライアングル関係の構築を提唱するのが第二の論点である。

    　トルコとイランは本来欧米と価値観を共有できたはずなのに、歴史的な経緯の中でうまくいかず、アメリカ外交政策の判断ミスによってさらにそのねじれが増幅されてしまった、その仕切りなおしを図りたいという考え方が本書の基本的なトーンである。こうした議論は民主化・近代化を指標とする点で西欧文明至上主義の一変種に過ぎないのではないかという批判もあり得るかもしれないが、むしろギクシャクしがちな欧米とイスラム世界との間に開かれた関係を築く接点をどこに求めたらいいのかという問題意識に目を向けたい。
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