I want to believe that this book won its author the enmity of some powerful scratched properly throughout the pages. Some critics are fly, others seem quite insipid, others still displaced. Finally, everything is pretty hollow and lack of dynamism. The first part, theoretical, is ultimately the most interesting, but it suggests that contemporary international relations revolve all around the entire conflict in Palestine, which is probably excessive. The second part, a gallery of portraits, sometimes too much like a settling of accounts. Too bad because the subject deserved better treatment.
