A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Sunday, July 6, 2014

FAISAL I of IRAQ

Ali A. Allawi, Faisal I of Iraq (New Haven & London: Yale U. Press, 2014) (What might have been were not Americans so inconstant in their role as an international power and influence? Both radical and most moderate nationalists had despaired of achieving their ends through negotiations with Britain and France. The withdrawal of the U.S. from European and international entanglements was another contributory factor to the nationalists' anxieties, as the US was the originator of the principle of self-determination of nations and peoples." Id. at 271.).