{"id":9314,"date":"2014-06-20T16:45:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T21:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=9314"},"modified":"2021-02-04T10:23:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:23:38","slug":"norton-hezbollah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2014\/06\/20\/norton-hezbollah\/","title":{"rendered":"Augustus Richard Norton Publishes New Edition of <i>Hezbollah<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2014\/06\/k10251.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2014\/06\/k10251.gif\" alt=\"k10251\" class=\"alignleft\" height=\"325\" width=\"210\" \/><\/a>A new edition of the popular book<em> Hezbollah<\/em> by <a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/profile\/augustus-richard-norton\/\">Augustus Richard Norton<\/a>,\u00a0Professor of International Relations at the Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies has just been \u00a0published by Princeton University Press.<\/p>\n<p>The 2014 edition of the book is as timely and incisive as when it was first published in 2009 and includes a new prologue and afterword by the author. The new material\u00a0analyzes recent momentous events&#8211;including Hezbollah&#8217;s political performance in Lebanon, inconsistent responses to the Arab Spring, and recent military support of the al-Asad regime in Syria.\u00a0<i>Hezbollah<\/i>\u00a0is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewing the book in Newsweek, Fareed Zakaria calls it &#8220;the best recent study of <em>Hezbollah<\/em>.&#8221; Jonathan Finer reviews the book for the\u00a0<i>Washington Post Book World <\/i>and calls it a &#8220;lucid primer: &#8220;Augustus Richard Norton&#8217;s timely\u00a0<i>Hezbollah<\/i>\u00a0chronicles [a] dramatic evolution and its sweeping implications for the region and beyond.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new edition of the popular book Hezbollah by Augustus Richard Norton has just been  published by Princeton University Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8432],"tags":[9961],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9314"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13075,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314\/revisions\/13075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}