Iranian Intellectuals and the West: The Tormented Triumph of Nativism. By Mehrzad Boroujerdi. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1996. Pp. 256.

Governments in emerging markets often behave like a "tormented insurer," trying to use non-state-contingent debt instruments to avoid cuts in payments to private agents despite large fluctuations in …

agonizing over. But even then, I was tormented with the knowledge that there was something bothering me badly enough to need help to such drastic measure. It was like everything seemed okay in the …

II. Ituri: The Politics of a Tormented Province en fighting for access to land and local power. In thi rural province, land is an essential resource. The Lendu

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On one occasion, in an attempt to quiet the voices that tormented him, he smashed things in our house. He began to suspect that we, his parents, were actually extraterrestrial lizard creatures from another …

His wartime forewords were tormented by a single, permanent obsession: the future of literature. But to him, the future of literature did not mean the mere preservation of what Connolly considered “good” …