Articles List
By Marvin Zonis
Writing in the New York Times, Dwight Garner had these thoughts about Isabel Wilkerson’s, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, “that strikes me as an instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far. It made the back of my neck prickle from its first pages, and that feeling never went away. . . I told more than one person, as I moved through my days this past week, that I was reading one of the most powerful nonfiction books I’d ever encountered.”[1]
Although not intended by the Founding Fathers, the U.S. Senate has become a “racist” institution. By providing two Senators for each state and by the policies its members have adopted for requiring super majorities and by the difficulty of ending filibusters, the Senate has turned out to effectively deny equal representation to African-Americans. The chances for change are zero.
——Marvin Zonis
The United States has widely recognized problems: growing income inequality, stagnant wages, decreasing social mobility, diminishing life expectancy, failing health delivery systems and many, many others. Elites have taken it upon themselves to find solutions. The result, it is argued here, will be solutions that preserve the existing system of power without altering the basic realities of the U.S. Instead, the author calls for the government to implement laws that will make meaningful change.
——Marvin Zonis
Publications
Books
The Kimchi Matters: Global Business and Local Politics in a Crisis Driven World,
co-authors Daniel Lefkovitz and Sam Wilkin, Chicago: Agate Press, 2003
The Eastern European Opportunity, A Complete Guide and Sourcebook,
co-author Dwight Semler, New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1992
Majestic Failure: The Fall of the Shah,
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1991
Khomeini and the Islamic Republic of Iran,
co-author Daniel Brumberg, Cambridge: Harvard Middle East Papers, 1987
The Political Elite of Iran.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976
Press
"Are We Going to Miss Mubarak?" [PDF]
February 4, 2011
Les Echos
"Washington Risque de Regretter Le Depart d'Hosni Moubarak" [PDF]
February 2, 2011
"Washington Risque de Regretter Le Depart d'Hosni Moubarak" [PDF]
February 2, 2011
Credit Suisse
"Middle East and Africa - Regulation Will Influence the
Future of Banking" [PDF]
June 1, 2010
ROOZ, 1116
"The Iranian People Are Entitled to More Freedom" [PDF]
February, 2010
The Wall Street Journal
"Russian Ripples Hit U.S. Firms - Sharp Slowdown in Consumer
Spending Is Felt From Cigarettes to Copier" [PDF]
August 2009
The Mind of a Mullah
June 17, 2009
Focus Trends (Dutch)
"Obama Is Jezus Christus" [PDF]
February 2009
GSB Magazine
"Faculty Smackdown with Marvin Zonis: From HBS Dropout
to Iran, Nightline, and the GSB"
Part One [PDF]
Part Two [PDF]
January, 2006