WGBH Forum Network; Stephen Kinzer: Iran, Turkey, and Americas Future
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Foreign correspondent and Boston University professor Stephen Kinzer discusses his book Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future, which examines the complex state of Middle East politics.What can the United States do to help realize its dream of a peaceful, democratic Middle East? In Reset, Stephen Kinzer offers a surprising answer. Two countries in the region, he argues, are America's logical partners in the 21st 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.In Reset, Kinzer 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.
