I have been reading Joseph Nye’s The Paradox of American Power: How the World’s Only Superpower Can’t Go It Alone for the past month and I finally finished it tonight along with a succint review that I posted in Reading Blog. Now, I am on to Samuel P. Huntington’s classic Us vs. Them The Clash of Civilisations: Remaking of the World Order. I wonder if I read those books so passionately and attentively when I was studying Political Science! Truth be told, I absolutely love it and my bookcases are covered with quasi-political and international economics (particularly micro-credit case studies) books and occasional papers. Now, my political perceptions may easily be divulged by who keeps me company, but that is not always a bad thing.

Update: I have enough family in Lebanon, particularly in West Beirut to be worried out of my mind. So far, silence ensues from their end, but hope is not lost. I am getting angrier by the minute for unlike the rest of the world, we know the reasons and the raison d’être of the calculating instigators that are Hezbollah and Israel and let’s not forget Syria. The impending war is playing in my mind’s eye like a bad, bad film right now; only it is not a film, but rather a repeat of history, the history of my life from literally being born in a bomb shelter to growing up within.