Betrachtungen eines Weltreisenden

No one has traveled to international crisis regions as often or assessed the situations on the ground as knowledgeably as the great journalist Peter Scholl-Latour. His insightful analyses still provide guidance today. Like his entire body of work, this selection of his reports depicts the fundamental upheavals at the political and military hotspots of the past six decades. Scholl-Latour's observations still explain why the international community repeatedly faces seemingly insurmountable conflicts in certain regions. His reports from the focal points of our world offer a captivating and enlightening overview of recent world history, from the Cold War era to the new world disorder of our present. The First Indochina War and the disillusionment of colonial power France in Algeria, the Vietnam War and the campaigns in Afghanistan, where the USA and the Soviet Union faced their Waterloo, the Iran plagued by both internal and external political crises, the dramatic failures of the West in both Iraq wars, or the confusions and upheavals of the Arab Spring – Scholl-Latour always had well-founded analyses and accurate predictions at hand. These were based on a profound knowledge of the respective country and its people, as well as the historical roots, political interests, and religious constraints behind the conflicts. To this day, Scholl-Latour's texts remain a source of insight for all those trying to understand the new world disorder.