THE IRANIAN CRISIS: The Great Gulf War of 2007-11? A disquieting glimpse of what the future might hold if we fail to deal with the nuclear threat in Iran. By Niall Ferguson.
This essay appeared in the Los Angeles Times on January 16, 2006. Senior Fellow Niall Ferguson is also a professor of history at Harvard University and a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. He is also a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford University. He specializes in political and financial history and provides insight into understanding the complex interaction among politics, war, and national economies. His most recent book is The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West. |
QUICK LINKS: TOOLS: |
