Bøker av David L. Phillips

Explores the subjugation of Kurds by Arab, Ottoman, and Persian powers for almost a century, and explains why Kurds are now evolving from a victimized people to a coherent political community. David L. Phillips describes Kurdish rebellions and arbitrary divisions in the last century, chronicling the nadir of Kurdish experience in the 1980s.

The Turkish-Armenian conflict has lasted for nearly a century and still continues in attenuated forms to poison the relationship between these two peoples. The author, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations and previously advisor to the United Nations, undertook, as head of the Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation Committee, to bring the two sides together and to work with them towards a peaceful resolution of the enmity that had made any contact between them taboo. His lively account of the difficult negotiations makes fascinating reading; it shows that the newly developed "e;track-two diplomacy"e; is an effective tool for reconciling even intractable foes through fostering dialog, contact and cooperation.

Considers non-State Muslim organizations at different stages of abandoning violence and pursuing their goals through a political process. This book states that some have successfully made the transition; others are in mid-stream; some have tried but backtracked, splintered, or simply abandoned such efforts reverting to pathological violence.