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Sasha Polakow-Suransky

Sasha Polakow-Suransky is a senior editor at Foreign Affairs. His book, The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa, will be published by Pantheon next May.

Recent Articles

Hope Against History

Early conflicts over colonialism and genocide explain many of the United Nations' modern-day failures.

Sasha Polakow-SuranskyNov 22, 2009
UN Soldier of the Kenyan Battalion playing with a Croatian child in a predominantly Serbian village near Knin, 1992. (UN Photo/John Isaac)

No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations by Mark Mazower, Princeton University Press, 236 pages, $24.95

Five to Rule Them All: The UN Security Council and the Making of the Modern World by David L. Bosco, Oxford University Press, 310 pages, $24.95

Indictment or Challenge?

Sasha Polakow-SuranskyDec 17, 2006

Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter
(Simon & Schuster, 264 pages, $27.00)

Before it was even released on November 14, Jimmy Carter's new book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, caused an uproar. The implied analogy in the title between contemporary Israel and the old South Africa drew a chorus of denunciations from Jewish groups and inspired rumors that publication was delayed until after the midterm elections, lest the book alienate Jewish Democrats and send them voting for Republicans in droves.

Hoodwinked

Sasha Polakow-SuranskyOct 13, 2004

MIAMI -- As Florida's deadline for sending overseas absentee ballots approached in mid-September, most election observers were waiting with baited breath for the outcome of a Supreme Court decision regarding Ralph Nader's eligibility for the ballot. But Glenda Hood, Jeb Bush's handpicked secretary of state, was busy urging counties to print ballots including Nader's name anyway.

Hood's strategy seems to mirror that of the Florida Republicans under her predecessor, Katherine Harris: throw any semblance of neutrality aside and use the powers of her office to aid the Republican campaign. And it does not stop with assisting Nader's efforts to appear on the ballot.

Who Killed Camp David?

Sasha Polakow-SuranskySep 19, 2004

The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East

Peace By Dennis Ross • Farrar, Straus and Giroux • 864 pages • $35.00

Cabin Fever

Sasha Polakow-SuranskySep 02, 2004

On August 30, as the Republican convention kicked off in New York City, the Log Cabin Republicans, a group representing gay and lesbian members of the GOP, began airing an ad in New York City and in cable-TV markets across the country. The ad features images of Rudy Giuliani, Ronald Reagan, and other conservative icons who have staked out gay-tolerant positions. The ad ends with footage from the funeral of Matthew Shepherd, a gay Wyoming teenager murdered in 1998, showing a sign reading “God Hates Fags.” CNN refused to air it.

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