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Vitaly Leonidovich Katayev was an eyewitness to history as he saw the arms race accelerating at an absurd and inexplicable pace, and he understood why. His perspective was from inside the Soviet system, in an office that was devoted to analysis of arms control and defense matters in the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party and later in an interdepartmental working group. Vitaly Katayev was a skilled designer and an acute observer. His recollections in this book, along with documents he deposited at the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, offer an extraordinary window into Soviet decisions and calculations. This monograph shows how Soviet leaders were often hobbled by a poor understanding of what was happening in the United States, but it also demonstrates that Americans, too, had a weak grasp of what was happening in Moscow, before and after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power. The misunderstandings on both sides were a symptom of the deepest chasm of the Cold War and A Memoir of the Missile Age provides a valuable key with which to open the Soviet black box.
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• Between reason and faith: preliminary notes
• Diasporic nation and territorial nations
• The Zionist deficit
• "Negotiation of the exile": stumbling block to acculturation
• The Gordian Knot: religion and nationhood
• The transition from sovereignty-in-the-making to sovereignty
• Ben-Gurionist statism
• The ethos of survival
• The centrality of death in Israel
• The interaction between governance and religion
• Diverse characteristics of the counterrevolution in religious Zionism
• The counterrevolution in the chronological mirror.

Over seven decades after the founding of Israel, the momentum to establish a Jewish state has led to remarkable achievements in the nation's "hardware": stable structures in government, the military, and the economy. At the same time, the "operating system", the guidelines that accommodate human diversity and enable coexistence, is still riddled with weaknesses. Arye Carmon diagnoses the critical vulnerabilities at the heart of Israeli democracy and the obstacles to forming a sustainable national consciousness. The author merges touching narratives about his own life in Israel with insightful ruminations on the Jewish diaspora and the arc of Israel's history, illuminating the conflicts between Jewish identities and between democratic values and the halacha -- the collective body of Jewish religious laws. There is no consensus on the characteristics that define Israel as a state that is both Jewish and democratic. Rather, the struggle between a secular and a religious Jewish identity, amid voices promoting ethnocentric nationalism, threatens to sever the ties that strengthen democracy. This cultural fragility has far-reaching implications for Israeli institutions and deepens societal rifts. Israel lacks a constitution to bind its democracy and a bill of rights to safeguard the freedoms of its citizens, enable the inclusion of diverse outlooks and beliefs, and underpin the norms of its civil society.
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• Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword: Ardeshir Zahedi; Foreword: Eric Wakin; Introduction; General Fazlollah Zahedi: A Profile; Ardeshir Zahedi: A Profile; Selected Documents; Document 1; Document 2; Document 3; Document 4; Document 5; Document 6; Document 7; Document 8; Document 9; Document 10; Document 11; Document 12; Document 13; Document 14; Document 15; Document 16; Document 17; Document 18; Document 19; Document 20; Document 21; Document 22; Document 23; Document 24; Document 25; Document 26; Document 27; Document 28; Document 29; Document 30

• Document 31Document 32; Document 33; Document 34; Document 35; Document 36; Document 37; Document 38; Document 39; Document 40; Document 41; Document 42; Document 43; Document 44; Document 45; Document 46; Document 47; Document 48; About the Editor; Acknowledgments; Illustration References

The inner workings of Iranian politics, as experienced by two key figures at their center, are revealed as never before through the meticulously preserved documents and photographs in the Ardeshir Zahedi Papers at the Hoover Institution Library and Archives. These materials are essential for understanding modern Iranian history and its global context.These archives were preserved over the course of two illustrious careers: those of Ardeshir Zahedi, Iran's ambassador to the United States and United Kingdom and minister of foreign affairs; and his father, Fazlollah Zahedi, military general and prime minister of Iran after the 1953 overthrow of Mohammad Mossadegh. Abbas Milani, American-Iranian historian and an expert in US-Iran relations, has sifted through these archives to select resources of unparalleled value and fascination for understanding Iran's politics, culture, and history-both before and after the 1979 Revolution that toppled the shah and sent him and the younger Zahedi into exile.Published for the very first time, the papers and photos included here are connected with many of the key events and figures of the twentieth century. They are indispensable primary sources for scholarship on modern Iranian history as well as intriguing studies on the mechanisms of international diplomacy.
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• Foreword: Ardeshir Zahedi
• Foreword: Eric Wakin
• Introduction
• General Fazlollah Zahedi: A Profile
• Ardeshir Zahedi: A Profile
• Selected Documents: Document 1: 1922-1924, 1.1-1.5. Sheikh Khazal of Kurzestan: despot or king without a crown
• Document 2: 23 November 1933, 2.1. State permission for installation of concert radio receiver in the home of Brigadier General Zahedi
• Document 3: 23 August 1953, 3.1. Confidential advice to Zahedi from "Hirad" in regard to Hossein Makki's note to the shah
• Document 4: 9 September 1953, 4.1-4.2. Letter from Hassan Taqizadeh to General Zahedi
• Document 5: 15 September 1953, 5.1. Letter to General Zahedi from a professor at the university
• Document 6: 6 October 1953, 6.1-6.5. Correspondence from Great Britain seeking to resume diplomatic relations with Iran following the overthrow of Mossadegh government
• Document 7: 16 January 1954, 7.1. Report of Anoushiravan Sepahbodi to A. Zahedi
• Document 8: 17 February 1954, 8.1. Letter of Nasser Ghashghaei to Ardeshir Zahedi
• Document 9: 13 December 1954, 9.1. Memorandum from Prime Minister to Mr. Abtin in re orders of Dr. Mofakham.
• Document 10: 3 December 1955, 10.1-10.2. Letter of Ali Asghar Hekmat to Ardeshir Zahedi
• Document 11: 1953-1955, 11.1. Detailed account of gifts
• Document 12: 1954-1955, 12.1-12.8. Outline of General Zahedi's career prepared in anticipation of his personal memoirs
• Document 13: 1953-1955, 13.1-13.11. More of the outline General Zahedi prepared in anticipation of his personal memoirs
• Document 14: 1 April 1956, 14.1. Letter to Ardeshir Zahedi from a cleric who had worked to overthrow Mossadegh
• Document 15: 19 August 1955, 15.1. Letter from Shaban Jafari to Ardeshir Zahedi
• Document 16: 12 October 1955, 16.1. Letter from Hassan Ma'assar
• Document 17: Around 1957-1958, 17.1-17.2. Letter from Princess Ashraf to Ardeshir Zahedi
• Document 18: 17 February 1959, 18.1-18.2. Ali Asghar Hekmat to General Zahedi
• Document 19: 13 June 1959, 19.1. Letter of General Teymour Bakhtiar to General Zahedi
• Document 20: 30 January 1967, 20.1-20.2. Letter from Ardeshir Zahedi as foreign minister to the shah reporting on foreign policy
• Document 21: 3 February 1967, 21.1-21.4. Correspondence between Ardeshir Zahedi and the shah
• Document 22: Approximately March 1967, 22.1. Letter of Ardeshir Zahedi to shah of matters revolving around influence of Kermit Roosevelt
• Document 23: 11 June 1967, 23.1-23.6. Digest of the shah's meeting with the Soviet ambassador regarding Soviet breech of bilateral agreement to use of Iranian air space
• Document 24: Around 1967, 24.1-24.6. Correspondence between Ardeshir Zahedi as foreign minister and Armin Meyer, US ambassasor to Iran.

• Document 25: 13 November 1968, 25.1-25.14. Minutes of a meeting betwen the shah of Iran and the Saudi monarch, King Faisal
• Document 26: 25 January 1969, 26.1-26.4. Zahedi reporting in minute detail his conversations with the Soviet ambassador
• Document 27: 10 February 1969, 27.1-27.5. Letter from Ardeshir Zahedi, then foreign minister, to the shah of Iran
• Document 28: 28 July 1969, 28.1. Letter in English from King Huyssein of Jordan to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, shah of Iran
• Document 29: 10 February 1970, 29.1-29.5. Ardeshir Zahedi report to the shah of Iran
• Document 30: 2 March 1970, 30.1̀-30.8. Ardeshir Zahedi report to the shah of Iran
• Document 31: 19 February 1974, 31.1-31.2. Telegram to US Ambassador in Tehran requesting prevention of broadcasting 60 Minutes interview
• Document 32: 9 July 1974, 32.1. Letter to Ardeshir Zahedi from US Senator Edward Wm. Brooke
• Document 33: 6 May 1976, 33.1-33.2. Letters of Assadollah Alam (former prime minister of Iran) to the shah
• Document 34: 20 December 1976, 34.1-34.2. Documentation of gifts of caviar
• Document 35: 11 January 1977, 35.1. Letter of thanks from US Representative James Wright to Ardeshir Zahedi
• Document 36: 22 January 1977, 36.1. Letter of thanks from Kirk Douglas; 36.2. Letter of thanks from Washington Post columnist Art Buchwald
• Document 37: 26 January 1977, 37.1-37.2. Letter to Ardeshir Zahedi, ambassador of Iran to US, from Sylvan M. Marshall, giving a legal opinion; 37.3-37.7. Letter from Ardeshir Zahedi to David Susskind, US television producer, objecting to allegations made by Reza Baraheni; 37.8. Letter to Ardeshir Zahedi from David Rockefeller
• Document 38: 27 January 1977, 38.1. Letter to Ardeshir Zahedi from Rose Mary Woods, secretary to President Richard Nixon
• Document 39: 16 March 1977, 39.1. Letter to Ardeshir Zahedi from US Senator Barry Goldwater
• Document 40: 16 March 1977, 40.1. Letter to Ardeshir Zahedi from Mrs. Arthur Hays Sulzberger; 40.2. Letter to Ardeshir Zahedi from Katharine Graham of the Washington Post
• Document 41: 18 March 1977, 41.1. Letter of gratitude to Ardeshir Zahedi from John R. Silver, president of Boston University
• Document 42: 7 November 1977, 42.1. Letter of gratitude to Ardeshir Zahedi from US Senator Hubert Humphrey
• Document 43: 5 January 1978: 43.1. Letter of gratitude to Ardeshir Zahedi from Claudia A. "Lady Bird" Johnson; 43.2. Telegram to Ardeshir Zahedi from Mrs. Ronand Reagan (Nancy); 43.3. Telegram to Ardeshir Zahedi from Mrs. Ronald Reagan; 43.4. Handwritten note of thanks to Ardeshir Zahedi from Mrs. Ronald Wilson Reagan
• Document 44: 30 January 1978, 44.1. Letter to Ardeshir Zahidi [sic] from Lord Hartley William Shawcross
• Document 45: 25 September 1978, 45.1. Letter to Ardeshir Zahedi from Douglas Fairbanks in regard to Tabas earthquake; 45.2. Response to Douglas Fairbanks
• Document 46: 9 January 1979, 46.1. Letter of concern from Nelson A. Rockefeller
• Document 47: 22 January 1979, 47.1. Letter from Ronald Reagan to Ardeshir Zahedi
• Document 48: January 1979, 48.1. Telegram from William Rogers.

The inner workings of Iranian politics, as experienced by two key figures at their center, are revealed as never before through the meticulously preserved documents and photographs in the Ardeshir Zahedi Papers at the Hoover Institution Library and Archives. These materials are essential for understanding modern Iranian history and its global context.These archives were preserved over the course of two illustrious careers: those of Ardeshir Zahedi, Iran's ambassador to the United States and United Kingdom and minister of foreign affairs; and his father, Fazlollah Zahedi, military general and prime minister of Iran after the 1953 overthrow of Mohammad Mossadegh. Abbas Milani, American-Iranian historian and an expert in US-Iran relations, has sifted through these archives to select resources of unparalleled value and fascination for understanding Iran's politics, culture, and history-both before and after the 1979 Revolution that toppled the shah and sent him and the younger Zahedi into exile.Published for the very first time, the papers and photos included here are connected with many of the key events and figures of the twentieth century. They are indispensable primary sources for scholarship on modern Iranian history as well as intriguing studies on the mechanisms of international diplomacy.
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• The birth of American rugged individualism
• The near-death experience of rugged individualism
• Rugging individualism (barely) survives modernity
• Rugged individualism hangs in the balance today
• Rugged individualism : the way forward.

• Make failure tolerable / George P. Shultz
• Financial reforms to end government bailouts as we know them / Paul Volcker
• Fifty years in the business : from Wall Street to the Treasury and beyond / Nicholas F. Brady
• Defining systemic risk operationally / John B. Taylor
• Lessons learned from the Lehman bankruptcy / Kimberly Anne Summe
• A contractual approach to restructuring financial institutions / Darrell Duffie
• Wind-down plans as an alternative to bailouts: the cross-border challenges / Richard J. Herring
• Wind-down plans, incomplete contracting, and renegotiation risk : lessons from Tiger Woods / Joseph A. Grundfest
• Expanding FDIC-style resolution authority / William F. Kroener III
• The Kansas City plan / Thomas M. Hoenig, Charles S. Morris, and Kenneth Spong
• Chapter 11F : a proposal for the use of bankruptcy to resolve financial institutions / Thomas H. Jackson
• Evaluating failure resolution plans / Kenneth E. Scott.

This book examines the dangers of continuing government bailouts and offers alternative strategies designed to produce growth based on the vigor of the private sector with inflation under control. The expert authors show that it is indeed possible to explain the causes of the crisis in understandable terms and clarify why resolving the bailout problem is essential to preventing future crises.
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• Preface / Kenneth E. Scott, George P. Shultz, John B. Taylor
• Make failure tolerable / George P. Shultz
• Financial reforms to end government bailouts as we know them / Paul Volcker
• Fifty years in the business : from Wall Street to the Treasury and beyond / Nicholas F. Brady
• Defining systemic risk operationally / John B. Taylor
• Lessons learned from the Lehman bankruptcy / Kimberly Anne Summe
• A contractual approach to restructuring financial institutions / Darrell Duffie
• Wind-down plans as an alternative to bailouts: the cross-border challenges / Richard J. Herring
• Wind-down plans, incomplete contracting, and renegotiation risk : lessons from Tiger Woods / Joseph A. Grundfest
• Expanding FDIC-style resolution authority / William F. Kroener III
• The Kansas City plan / Thomas M. Hoenig, Charles S. Morris, and Kenneth Spong
• Chapter 11F : a proposal for the use of bankruptcy to resolve financial institutions / Thomas H. Jackson
• Evaluating failure resolution plans / Kenneth E. Scott
• A summary of the commentary / Johannes Stroebel
• A conversation about key conclusions / George P. Schultz and John B. Taylor
• Appendix : The financial crisis : causes and lessons / Kenneth E. Scott.

This book examines the dangers of continuing government bailouts and offers alternative strategies designed to produce growth based on the vigor of the private sector with inflation under control. The expert authors show that it is indeed possible to explain the causes of the crisis in understandable terms and clarify why resolving the bailout problem is essential to preventing future crises.
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• Unintended Consequences
• The Creation of Wealth
• Bits, Bytes, Power, and Diplomacy
• New Rules: Different in Kind, Not Degree
• The Whiskey Ain't Working Anymore
• What Gets Measured, Gets Done
• The Great Disconnect: Balance Sheets Versus Market Value
• Politically Correct Versus Accurate Earnings
• Global Accounting for a Global Market
• Other People's Money.

"The Internet has changed everything. It is altering the way institutions, both public and private, are managed, and the way individuals react to one another, their workplace, and their government. From an economic and business perspective, the race to win is between those who "get it" and those who don't. In Bits, Bytes, and Balance Sheets, Walter Wriston explores the consequences of the changes produced by the new economy of the Internet, defining the new rules and examining some of the promising initiatives under way to create a system of measuring and valuing assets that reflects our new economic realities"--Website introduction.

• Introduction
• pt 1. The organizational cycle. The race for size, 1870-1960 ; The political consequences of hierarchy ; The decentralizing revolution, 1968-1989 ; The return of the individual
• pt 2. The fundamental question. The organizational choice ; The decisive role of information ; The system of nation-states ; The industry of states and the society of nations
• Conclusion: The rationale of history.

Jean-Jacques Rosa offers an analysis of the grand cycle in social organization of the twentieth century, showing how the transformation in communication and information technology has led to the downfall of the old political and corporate hierarchies. He explains how today's explosion of freely available information is fueling the democratic free-market revolution and reveals its universal contemporary consequences.

• Toward strategic foreign assistance
• Economic development
• Empowering women
• Citizens as partners in the search for peace
• Roles of civil society during and after conflicts
• Strategies for reform
• Appendix A: Outline of strategic country plan for Pakistan.

• China divides into two rival regimes
• Toward détente
• Détente and its collapse
• The challenge of Taiwan independence
• Economic slow-down and growing integration with mainland China
• The watershed elections of 2004 and aftermath
• Conclusion: divided China's continuing struggle.

• Justice, luck, liberty / Anthony de Jasay
• The exercise of liberty and the moral psychology of justice / Jonathan Jacobs
• Liberty, gender, and the family / Jennifer McKitrick
• Libertarian justice : a natural rights approach / Tibor R. Machan.

• Anticompetitive behavior by SOES : incentives and capabilities / David E.M. Sappington, J. Gregory Sidak
• Case studies of anticompetitve behavior / R. Richard Geddes
• Applying the Microsoft decision to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac / Peter J. Wallison
• Anticompetitive behavior in postal services / R. Richard Geddes.

• Anticompetitive behavior by SOES : incentives and capabilities / David E.M. Sappington, J. Gregory Sidak
• Case studies of anticompetitve behavior / R. Richard Geddes
• Applying the Microsoft decision to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac / Peter J. Wallison
• Anticompetitive behavior in postal services / R. Richard Geddes.

• Introduction : property rights and sustainable development / Terry L. Anderson
• The skeptical environmentalist / Bjørn Lomborg
• Economic growth, technological change, and human well-being / Indur M. Goklany
• Income and the race to the top / Bruce Yandle, Maya Vijayaraghavan, Madhusudan Bhattarai
• Globalization, free trade, and environmental quality / B. Delworth Gardner
• Population growth, economic freedom, and the rule of law / Seth W. Norton
• The relation between net carbon emissions and income / Robert E. McCormick.

• Schools
• Teachers
• Achievement
• Expenditures
• School reform
• Students and their families.

School Figures presents statistics, along with historical trends and cross-sectional comparisons, to provide a clear, factual picture of today's K-12 education landscape, including information on school demographics, cost and finance, testing and achievement, public school reform, and other key areas.
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School Figures presents statistics, along with historical trends and cross-sectional comparisons, to provide a clear, factual picture of today's K-12 education landscape, including information on school demographics, cost and finance, testing and achievement, public school reform, and other key areas.
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With a reporter's keen eye for detail, award-winning journalist Zelnick conveys every emotion of the key players in this battle, presenting a rich, colorful tale that reads more like a fictional political thriller than the bizarre real-life drama it was-from election night through the U.S. Supreme Court's historic decision.
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