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Book Synopsis"Global Flashpoints" critically examines today's neoliberal order and the new resistance movements which it has sparked across the globe. This timely and panoramic work offers penetrating historical analysis of the role of politics, religion and imperialism in shaping the contemporary crisis in the Middle East and of the prospects for the Left throughout the Islamic world. "Global Flashpoints" also explores the present state of resistance movements in Europe and the United States and highlights developments in Latin America, including Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution, the recent uprising in Oaxaca, indigenous agrarian movements in Bolivia, and Brazil's landless movement. "Global Flashpoints" offers a uniquely powerful and provocative account of the worldwide struggle against imperialism and neoliberalism in the new century.
Table of Contents1. AIJAZ AHMAD, Modern Islam in Historical Perspective: The Fall of Three Empires; 2. GILBERT ACHCAR, Religion and Politics Today from a Marxian Perspective; 3. ASEF BAYAT, Islamism and Empire; 4. SABBAH ALNASSERI, Understanding Iraq; 5. BASHIR ABU-MANNEH, The Transformation of the Palestinian Resistance; 6. YILDIZ ATASOY, The Islamic Ethic and the Spirit of Turkish Capitalism; 7. HIDAYAT GREENFIELD, Kalya's Kalashnikov: Islamic Radicalism in East Asia; 8. ANA ESTHER CECENA, New Forms of Resistance in Latin America.; 9. MARGARITA LOPEZ MAYA, Venezuelan Revolution? Participatory Democracy under Chavez; 10. JACK HAMMOND, A Leftist Resurgence in Latin America?; 11. WILLIAM ROBINSON, Transformative Possibilities in Latin America; 12. WES ENZINNA, All We Want is the Earth: Bolivia's 'Agrarian Revolution'; 13. JOAO PEDRO STEDILE & ATILIO BORON, The Landless Movement and Brazilian Politics Today; 14. RICHARD ROMAN & EDUR VELASCO ARREGUI, The Oaxaca Uprising: Implications for Mexico; 15. G. M. TAMAS, Fifty Years Later: The Hungarian Revolt of 2006; 16. RAGHU KRISHNAN & ADRIEN THOMAS, Resistance to Neoliberalism in France; 17. PETER BURNHAM, The Blair Decade: New Labour and Beyond; 18. KIM MOODY, Harvest of Empire: The U.S. Immigrant Workers' Struggle; 19. ALFREDO SAAD FILHO, ELMAR ALTVATER & GREG ALBO, Understanding Neoliberalism: A Symposium.
