Fred Halliday

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Fred Halliday (born 1946 in Dundalk, Republic of Ireland) is a British academic and author specialising in the Middle East and international relations, with particular reference to Iran. He is Montagu Burton Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics.

Fred Halliday studied at Queen's College, Oxford, the School of Oriental and African Studies, and the London School of Economics. Halliday wrote his PhD on South Yemen, and despite his prolific output it famously took him 17 years to complete and then publish (Sale, 2002). A one-time member of the International Marxist Group and writer for The Black Dwarf newspaper, since 1983 he has been lecturing at the London School of Economics, and he remains one of Britain's leading experts on Middle Eastern politics. And a consultant to BP on the region.

At the LSE, Halliday is Professor of International Relations, and a member of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights. He is also a former Convener of the Department of International Relations of the LSE, and a former Chairman of the Research Committee of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House). He sits on the advisory council of the Foreign Policy Centre. He is also associated with the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP), and appears regularly on ABC, BBC and CBC radio and TV broadcasts. He has lectured widely on superpower relations, development issues, the Middle East and international-relations theory. He is the author of numerous books, including The World at 2000, World Politics, and Two Hours That Shook the World. Six of his books have been translated into Arabic. [1].

A talented linguist, Halliday speaks Persian, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, Russian, Catalan, Portuguese and Arabic. He has widely travelled in the Middle East, and has met and interviewed several key Islamic fighters, rebels, and errant religious leaders and politicians over the years. Illness in 2001/2 forced a retreat from public life. He was encouraged to take up alternative employment at a Spanish university after incidents involving LSE students. As his bibliography attempts to show, he later claimed to have recovered, to continue lecturing and publishing. He is married to Professor Maxine Molyneux and they have one son, Alex. His brother Jon Halliday is also a historian.^[1]

Contents 1 Key arguments 2 Publications 2.1 Books 2.2 Book Reviews 2.3 Articles & Commentary 3 External links 3.1 Websites 3.2 Biographical Data 3.3 Interviews 3.4 Articles & Commentary 4 Reference 5 External links

[edit] Key arguments

• Globalization & Sovereignty: Halliday argues that the future of globalisation relies on good interstate agreements - citing the success of the euro and the World Trade Organization (WTO). He cautions about the real threat of interstate war. One of the negative aspects of globalisation is a rise in inequality, ably exposed by Halliday's colleague at the LSE, Robert Wade. Halliday notes how more than 100 countries are effectively excluded from the global flow of investment. 2002.
• He castigates the US strongly for its inappropriate military interventions in the region, which he argues has actually recruited for al-Qaeda, a movement that began "from the Cold War, in particular the financing, training and arming of tens of thousands of jihadi militants by the US, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan for the war in Afghanistan in the 1980s". But more conservatively, he dislikes the anti-globalisation and anti-US movement, castigating it as holding "a set of vague, unthought out, uncosted and often dangerous utopian ideas about an alternative world". Lastly, contra some left-wing analysts, he argues the Soviet and Communist periods were detrimental for international relations and profoundly undemocratic. [2]. Elsewhere, he has suggested the political left and radical Islam make strange bedfellows in the notional war on western capitalism, and points out that they were once openly hostile to each other [3].
• In 2005, Halliday stated that there are perhaps 50 scholars in the UK with in depth knowledge of the Middle East, but that this number is rapidly declining. Furthermore, these scholars had warned against the war against Iraq in 2003, but they weren't consulted by the UK government. The situation in the US is much the same, but with more pressure against independent scholars.

[edit] Publications

[edit] Books

• Author:

• Britain's First Muslim. IB Tauris, 2008.
• 100 Myths About the Middle East, Saqi Books, 2005 ISBN 0-520-24720-5 (Hardback) / ISBN 0-520-24721-3 (Softback). Halliday's most recent book to be released in the US in September.
• The Middle East in International Relations: Power, Politics and Ideology, Cambridge University Press, 2005 ISBN 0-521-59741-2.
• Revolution and Foreign Policy: The Case of South Yemen, 1967–1987, Cambridge University Press, 2002 ISBN 0-521-89164-7 | ISBN 978-0-521-89164-6 Softcover.
• Two Hours That Shook the World: September 11, 2001: Causes and Consequences, Saqi Books, 2002 ISBN 0-86356-382-1.
• The World at 2000, Palgrave McMillan, 2001 Softcover ISBN 0-333-94535-2 | Hardcover ISBN 0-333-94534-4.
• Nation and Religion in the Middle East, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000 and Saqi Books ISBN 0-86356-044-X.
• Revolution and World Politics: The Rise and Fall of the Sixth Great Power, Palgrave McMillan, 1999 ISBN 0-333-65328-9; Duke University Press, 1999 Softcover ISBN 0-8223-2464-4.
• 'Islam and the Myth of Confrontation. Religion and Politics in the Middle East, I.B. Tauris, 1996 ISBN 1-86064-868-1.
• Does Islamic fundamentalism pose a threat to the West? (6-page booklet), report for Institute for Jewish Policy Research, 1996.
• From Potsdam to Perestroika. Conversations with Cold Warriors, BBC Publications, London, 1995.
• Rethinking International Relations, University of British Columbia Press, 1995 ISBN 0-7748-0508-0.
• Islam and the Myth of Confrontation: Religion and Politics in the Middle East, I.B. Tauris, 1995 ISBN 1-86064-868-1; reprint 2004 Softcover ISBN 1-85043-959-1.
• Rethinking International Relations. Realism and the Neoliberal Challenge, Palgrave McMillan, London, 1994 ISBN 0-333-58905-X.
• Arabs in Exile. Yemeni Migrants in Urban Britain, I.B. Tauris, 1992..
• Cold War, Third World: Essays on Soviet-American Relations in the 1980's, Radius Books, 1991 ISBN 0-09-174440-7.
• Revolutions and Foreign Policy. The Case of South Yemen, Cambridge University Press, 1990.
• From Kabul to Managua: Soviet-American Relations in the 1980s, Pantheon Books, 1989 ISBN 0-679-72667-5.
• European neutralism and Cold War politics (32-page booklet), Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, 1990 ISBN 0-9512760-1-8.
• Cold War, Third World. An Essay on Soviet-American Relations, Radius, London, 1989.
• State and Ideology in the Middle East and Pakistan, Macmillan Education, 1988 ISBN 0-333-38307-9.
• Beyond Irangate. The Reagan Doctrine and the Third World, TransNational Issues 1, TNI, 1987.
• The Making of the Second Cold War, Verso, London, 1983 ISBN 0-86091-752-5.
• The Ethiopian Revolution, with Maxime Molyneux, Verso Books, London, 1981 Softcover ISBN 0-86091-741-X; 1982 Hardcover ISBN 0-8052-7121-X and ISBN 0-86091-043-1.
• Threat from the East: Soviet Policy from Afghanistan and Iran to the Horn of Africa, Pelican Books Ltd, 1982 ISBN 0-14-022448-3.
• Soviet Policy in the Arc of Crisis, TNI/IPS, June 1981 ISBN 0-89758-028-1.
• Mercenaries in the Persian Gulf. Counter-insurgency in Oman, Russell Press, Nottingham, 1979.
• Iran: Dictatorship and Development, Penguin Books Ltd, 1978 ISBN 0-14-022010-0.
• Mercenaries: 'Counter-insurgency' in the Gulf, Spokesman Books, 1977 ISBN 0-85124-197-2.
• Arabia without Sultans, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1974 ISBN 0-86356-381-3; reprint 2002.

• Contributor:

• "Islam is in danger. Authority, Rushdie and the Struggle for the Migrant Soul." In: Jochen Hippler and Andrea Leug (ed) The Next Threat. Western Perceptions of Islam, TNI/Pluto Press, London, 1995.
• "The Siren of Nationalism." In: Chester Hartman and Pedro Vilanova (ed) Paradigms Lost. The Post Cold War Era, TNI/Pluto Press, London, 1992.

• Editor:

• Ideology in the Middle East and Pakistan with Hamza Alavi, Palgrave Macmillan, 1988 ISBN 0-333-38307-9.

• Foreword or Introduction:

• Why Muslims Rebel: Repression and Resistance in the Islamic World by Mohammed M. Hafez, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004 ISBN 1-58826-302-9.
• Iran Encountering Globalization: Problems and Prospects by Ali Mohammadi, RoutledgeCurzon, 2003 ISBN 0-415-30827-5.
• Central Asia After the Empire by Yuriy G. Kulchik, Andrey V. Fadin, Victor M. Sergeev, Pluto Press Ltd, 1996 ISBN 0-7453-1089-3.

[edit] Book Reviews

• Book Reviews in Foreign Affairs.

[edit] Articles & Commentary

• "Kabul's Patriarchy With Guns," The Nation, November 11, 1996.
• "The Middle East at the Millennial Turn," Middle East Report 213, Winter 1999.
• "Letter from Kuwait. Iraq: A Decade of Devastation," Middle East Report 215, Summer 2000.
• Memorandum submitted by Professor Fred Halliday, London School of Economics, presented in the House of Commons, The United Kingdom Parliament, September 2000.
• "Terrorism," Global Policy Forum, May 2001.
• "No Man is an Island," The Observer, September 16, 2001.
• "Beyond Bin Laden," The Observer, September 23, 2001: "The future of Afghanistan itself should lie at the root of Western political thinking."
• "Aftershocks That Will Eventually Shake Us All," The Observer, November 25, 2001.
• "Globalisation and Sovereignty," Fathom.com, undated 2002.
• "New World, But the Same Old Disorder," Open Democracy, March 10, 2002.
• "Looking Back on Saddam Hussein," Open Democracy, January 9, 2004.
• "Terrorism in Historical Perspective," Open Democracy, April 22, 2004.
• "The Crisis of Universalism: America and Radical Islam after 9/11," Open Democracy, September 14, 2004: "In a trenchant analysis of the post-9/11 world, Fred Halliday documents the two-sided assault both by the United States and its fundamentalist enemies on universal principles. Can citizens of the world retrieve a confident, humane politics from beneath the rubble?"
• "Bush’s Triumph: three Ends and a Beginning," Open Democracy, November 17, 2004: "November 2004 represents a decisive moment in global as well as American politics that demands an urgent response from concerned citizens everywhere."
• "How to defeat terrorism," Global Agenda Magazine, 2005: "To succeed, the war on terror must be fought on three levels – military, political and cultural. But what’s clear, says Fred Halliday, is that it has only just begun."
• "It's time to bin the past," The Observer, January 30, 2005: "...we are still infected by Cold War ills: an arrogant West, shabby dictators, naive protests."
• "Terrorism and its consequences: a tale of three cities," Open Democracy, March 16, 2005.
• Audio Transcript: "Farewell to the experts - Western foreign policy towards the Middle East and the decline of area expertise," Chatham House, March 22, 2005.
• Islam and Europe: a debate in Amsterdam 9 October 2007

[edit] External links

[edit] Websites

• Centre for the Study of Human Rights website.

[edit] Biographical Data

• Jonathan Sale, "Passed/failed: Fred Halliday, Academic and Writer. 'My PhD thesis on South Yemen took me 17 years'," The Independent, May 15, 2002.

[edit] Interviews

• Interview, NPR, October 13, 1994: " ...the possible threat of another military showdown in Iraq."
• Peter Snow, Interview: "About attempts to construct an alternative, broad based government to replace the Taliban," BBC, October 28, 2001.
• John Humphreys, Interview: "Will the talks in Germany on the future of Afghanistan lead to a genuinely broad based government?," BBC, November 25, 2001.
• Nadeem Azam, Interview: "Are Islam and the West at Loggerheads?," 1lit.com, undated 2001/2002.
• Jennifer Byrne, Interview, ABC (Australia), April 9, 2002.
• ESRC Society Today, 24 May 2005 [4]

[edit] Articles & Commentary

• Edward Russell-Walling, "The web of bilateral realtions spun anew," Gulf News, November 8, 2001.
• Helena Cobban, "Fred Halliday Misinformed?," Just World News, February 2, 2003.
• Helena Cobban, "'Shock and Awe': I've Been," Just World News, February 19, 2003.
• Mohammed Almezel, "Full democracy not possible in Gulf region in foreseeable future, says British author," Gulf News, January 3, 2004.

[edit] Reference

1. ^ [ http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization/cold_war_2753.jsp A harvest of sorrow

[edit] External links

• Official home page