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Politics & Social Sciences
The volatile Middle East is the site of vast resources, profound passions, frequent crises, and long-standing conflicts, as well as a major source of international tensions and a key site of direct US intervention. Two of... See More
Politics & Social Sciences"This inquiry into the probable shape of things to come is sober, uncompromising, deeply informed, and full of provocative insights and judicious analyses." Noam Chomsky "The most forceful, most rigorous text that there is... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
The volatile Middle East is a region of vast resources, frequent crises and long-standing conflicts, as well as a major source of international tensions and a key site of direct US intervention. Noam Chomsky, the preeminent... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
This book assesses the causes and consequences of the impact on the recent Middle East war. The authors describe the popular basis of Hezbollah in Lebanon among the Shiites, but also its relation to the country's other... See More
History
The Arab-Israeli conflict goes far beyond the wars waged on Middle East battlefields. There is also a war of narratives revolving around the two defining traumas of the conflict: the Holocaust and the Nakba. One side is... See More
In this collection of essays, Gilbert Achcar examines the controversial relationship of Marxism to religion, to Orientalism and its critique by Edward Said, and to the concept of cosmopolitanism. A compelling range of issues... See More
"One of best analysts of the contemporary Arab world" Le Monde Since the first wave of uprisings in 2011, the euphoria of the "Arab Spring" has given way to the gloom of backlash, clashes between rival counter-revolutionary... See More
History
'The people want' - thus began the slogans chanted by millions of protesters in 2011 in what was dubbed the 'Arab Spring'. ?While the protests revealed a long-suppressed craving for democracy, they also laid bare a deep... See More
Essays & Correspondence
S'appuyant sur une vaste documentation et avec un constant souci d'objectivité et de distance critique, cet ouvrage (le premier du genre) analyse les rapports complexes entre les Arabes, dans la diversité de leurs... See More
Essays & CorrespondenceTrois ans après Le peuple veut, exploration radicale du soulèvement arabe, Gilbert Achcar analyse dans ce nouvel opus le blocage du processus révolutionnaire déclenché en décembre 2011 en Tunisie et la reprise en main... See More
Quinze années se sont écoulées depuis l'attentat du 11 septembre 2001 contre le World Trade Center à New York, quinze années rythmées par de nouveaux attentats et par une « guerre au terrorisme » sans fin. « À lire... See More
Es gibt kaum ein explosiveres Thema als "Die Araber und der Holocaust" - das Terrain ist vermint, voller Vorwürfe und Gegenvorwürfe: Die einen werden beschuldigt, den Holocaust zu verleugnen; den anderen wird vorgeworfen... See More
eBooks in Foreign LanguagesL'après-Guerre froide ressemble fort peu à cette ère de paix annoncée au moment où l'URSS avait mis un genou à terre. Inaugurée, en grande pompe, par la guerre du Golfe, la dernière décennie du XXe siècle a connu... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
One of the world's most seasoned international relations experts updates and revises his far-sighted 1999 book arguing that the Cold War did not, in fact, end with the collapse of the USSR - and that the US, Russia and China... See More