Beyond War, David Rohde
Beyond War, David Rohde
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Beyond War
Reimagining American Influence in a New Middle East

Author: David Rohde

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Unabridged: 5 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/18/2013

Synopsis

Beyond War: Reimagining American Influence in a New Middle East distills eleven years of expert reporting for the New York Times, Reuters, and the Atlantic into a clarion call for change. Here Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist David Rohde exposes how a dysfunctional Washington squandered billions on contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, neglected its true allies in the war on terror, and failed to employ its most potent nonmilitary weapons: American consumerism, technology, and investment. The author then surveys post-Arab Spring Tunisia, Turkey, and Egypt, and finds a yearning for American technology, trade, and education. He argues that only Muslim moderates, not Americans, can eradicate militancy. An incisive look at the evolving nature of war, Beyond War shows how the failed American effort to back moderate Muslims since 9/11 can be salvaged.

About David Rohde

David Rohde is a columnist for Reuters and the Atlantic. A former reporter for the New York Times, he has won the Pulitzer Prize for journalism twice. He is the author of Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica, Europe's Worst Massacre Since World War II, and coauthor, with Kristen Mulvihill, of A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides. He lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ted

David Rohde, a distinguished journalist who has covered the Middle East extensively, has written a book examining US policy and behavior in the Middle East with a particular emphasis on post 9/11 activity. In Beyond War: Reimagining American Influence in a New Middle East (Viking, 2013, 240 Pages, $......more

Goodreads review by Janet

The author, as a NYX journalist, was invited by the Taliban to interview one of its heads. Instead, he and two Afghani colleagues were kidnapped in Pakistan. He told the story in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book A Rope and a Prayer. Those are pretty good credentials for writing this book, which calls......more

Goodreads review by H

Short and easy to read book detailing the last decade of US involvement in the Middle East. The first half should be familiar to anyone who has read anything at all about the debacle that has been US foreign policy and the revamped "Rumsfeld" military. The over-reliance on military might, the neglec......more

Goodreads review by Lisa

I would actually say 3.5 but since it is a little dated, I rounded down. Overall, a very compelling look at how US policy in the Middle East is ignoring some of our most potent "weapons" against extremism. Also underlines how the partisanship and political posturing in Washington DC over the years h......more

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