Augustus Richard Norton

Biographic Data

ID332877
NAMEAugustus Richard Norton
GIVEN NAMESAugustus Richard
FAMILY NAMENorton
SIGNATURENORTON A R
AFFILIATIONSBoston University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS58
TOTAL CITATIONS72
AUTHOR COUNT58
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX5

  • Hezbollah: A Short History | Third Edition - Revised and updated with a new preface, conclusion and an entirely new chapter on activities since 2011

    Open AccessAugustus Richard NortonBOOKHezbollah2018

  • Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War

    Open AccessAugustus Richard NortonARTICLEMiddle East Policy2017Cited by: 1

  • The Field of Fight: How to Win the Global War against Radical Islam and Its Allies

    Open AccessAugustus Richard NortonARTICLEMiddle East Policy2017

    The Field of Fight: How to Win the Global War against Radical Islam and Its Allies, by Lt. General Michael T. Flynn and Michael Ledeen. St. Martin's Press, 2016. 208 pages. $26.99, hardcover. Presidents typically see their national security adviser multiple times daily. Just as his predecessors did, President Donald J. Trump will count on his national security adviser to keep him abreast of hot-button issues and to present well-considered options…

  • The Middle East's Spreading Morass

    Augustus Richard NortonARTICLECurrent History2015

    Many of the Arab states see the uprisings, the Iraq war, and the rise of ISIS as fundamentally related. All of these issues are complicated by the Iran deal

  • Obama's Middle East Headaches

    Augustus Richard NortonARTICLECurrent History2014

    Barack Obama has tried to reduce American involvement in the region, but events keep pulling him back in. Iraq and Syria are spiraling out of control, while allies only make things worse

  • Hezbollah: A Short History

    Augustus Richard NortonBOOKHezbollah2014

    With Hezbollah's entry into the Lebanese government in 2009 and recent forceful intervention in the Syrian civil war, the potent Shi'i political and military organization continues to play an enormous role in the Middle East. Policymakers in the United States and Israel usually denounce it as a dangerous terrorist group and refuse to engage with it, yet even its adversaries need to contend with its durability and resilient popular support. Althou…

  • The Return of Egypt's Deep State

    Augustus Richard NortonARTICLECurrent History2013

    Not only was the paramount role of the military unimpeded after the exit of Mubarak, but other key institutions were undiminished in their power

  • Arab Revolts Upend Old Assumptions

    Augustus Richard NortonARTICLECurrent History2012

    This is a period laden with potential for the growth of freedom, but also heavy with risks and challenges for the United States

  • North Africa's Epochal Year of Freedom

    Augustus Richard Norton, Ashraf el-SherifARTICLECurrent History2011

    Uprisings in North Africa have electrified the world and inaugurated a new era in the region, but their outcomes are uncertain. The old order could yet prove resilient

  • Al-Najaf: Its Resurgence as a Religious And University Center

    Open AccessAugustus Richard NortonARTICLEMiddle East Policy2011Cited by: 1

  • Hamas: Unwritten Chapters * By Azzam Tamimi

    Augustus Richard NortonARTICLEJournal of Islamic Studies2010

    Journal Article Hamas: Unwritten Chapters By Azzam Tamimi Get access Hamas: Unwritten Chapters By Azzam Tamimi, (London: Hurst and Co., 2007), 344 pp. Price PB £14.95. EAN 978–1850658344. Augustus Richard Norton Augustus Richard Norton Boston University and University of Oxford E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume 21, Issue 3, September 2010, Pages 4…

  • A dvice to P resident O bama: Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Louis J. Cantori 1

    Open AccessAugustus Richard Norton, Eva Bellin et al.ARTICLEMiddle East Policy2008

  • Stalled Reform: The Case of Egypt

    Hala Mustafa, Augustus Richard NortonARTICLECurrent History2007

    As the us commitment to substantive reform has waned, Egypt's liberal activists find themselves subject to increasing surveillance and intimidation

  • Hizballah through the Fog of the Lebanon War

    Augustus Richard NortonARTICLEJournal of Palestine Studies2006Cited by: 1

    JPS: Before going into recent events, we thought it would be useful to take a look at Hizballah on the eve of the July war and especially what has happened in the years after the Israeli withdrawal in 2000. Let's begin with Hizballah's popularity in the south compared to what it was in 2000

  • Authoritarianism, Civil Society and Democracy in the Middle East: Mass Media in the Persian Gulf

    Open AccessFarhad Kazemi, Augustus Richard NortonARTICLEMiddle East Studies Association…2006Cited by: 2References: 28

    The published literature on the topic of “Authoritarianism, Civil Society, and Democracy in the Middle East” is extensive and unwieldy. Partly due to space constraints, we propose to review the topic under six framing questions and then provide a selected and representative bibliography at the end. The ideas of political reform and democracy are often the mainstay of debates within Middle Eastern polities. In general, there is ample awareness of …

  • Voices within Islam: Four Perspectives on Tolerance and Diversity

    Bahman Baktiari, Augustus Richard NortonARTICLECurrent History2005

    Research Article| January 01 2005 Voices within Islam: Four Perspectives on Tolerance and Diversity Bahman Baktiari, Bahman Baktiari Bahman Baktiari is director of the international affairs program at the University of Maine. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Augustus Richard Norton Augustus Richard Norton Augustus Richard Norton is a professor of international relations and anthropology at Boston Universit…

  • The Limits of Shock and Awe: America in the Middle East

    Augustus Richard Norton, Farhad KazemiARTICLECurrent History2005

    Never before has a country committed itself to so fundamental and dramatic a transformation of a major region of the world as the United States has in the Middle East since 2001... . It remains to be seen how well the rhetoric of promoting reform will weather the experience of promoting reform

  • Ritual, Blood, and Shiite Identity: Ashura in Nabatiyya, Lebanon

    Augustus Richard NortonARTICLETDR/The Drama Review2005

    December 01 2005 Ritual, Blood, and Shiite Identity: Ashura in Nabatiyya, Lebanon Augustus Richard Norton Augustus Richard Norton Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and International Relations at Boston University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Augustus Richard Norton Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and International Relations at Boston University. Online I…

  • E valuating T he B ush M enu for C hange in the M iddle E ast

    Open AccessLouis J Cantori, Augustus Richard Norton et al.ARTICLEMiddle East Policy2005References: 1

    These contributions were presented at a roundtable of the Conference Group on the Middle East, “Evaluating the Bush Menu for Change in the Middle East,” at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, September 5, 2004

  • Making War, Making Peace: The Middle East Entangles America

    Augustus Richard NortonARTICLECurrent History2004

    In Iraq the United States appears to have checkmated itself, maneuvered into the calamitous position of being unable to exit easily or stay safely

  • America in the Middle East: Statemanship versus Politics

    Augustus Richard NortonARTICLECurrent History2003

    No matter who rules in Baghdad, George Bush will have to decide between the role of statesman and politician in Arab–Israeli peacemaking

  • America's Approach to the Middle East: Legacies, Questions, and Possibilities

    Augustus Richard NortonARTICLECurrent History2002

    Will America now define national security as it did half a century ago to see the betterment of others' conditions as key to ensuring its own safety and well-being? Or will it be satisfied merely to aggressively police the frontiers of hostility at home and abroad to reduce the likelihood of a new terrorist-inflicted disaster

  • Activism and Reform in Islam

    Augustus Richard NortonARTICLECurrent History2002

    Largely missing from American discussions about Islam is any appreciation of the debates within Islam and the widely variant interpretations by Muslims of their own religion. Beyond the core belief shared by all Muslims that there is only one God and Muhammad was the messenger of God, there are many ‘Islams,’ depending on locale, education, custom, politics, and personal attitudes

  • America's Middle East Peace Crisis

    Augustus Richard NortonARTICLECurrent History2001

    Over the past decade it has become fashionable in Washington to believe that only when a situation is ‘ripe’—that is, when the belligerents are ‘hurting’—should the United States expend diplomatic capital, and especially the scarcest resource of all, the president's time, to seek a solution. This perspective exhibits common-sense wisdom, but it also harbors a rationale for avoiding tough, complex issues

  • Lebanon and Syria: Internal and Regional Dimensions

    Open AccessMartha Neff Kessler, George Emile Irani et al.ARTICLEMiddle East Policy2001

    The following is an edited transcript of the twenty‐fifth in a series of Capitol Hill conferences convened by the Middle East Policy Council. The meeting was held on May 23, 2001, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building with Chas. W. Freeman, Jr., moderating