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Book SynopsisCollection of the best writing from one of the world's most prestigious intellectual journals.
Trade Review'Offers a cool, reasoned, different view of the world's most pressing issues.' -- New York Review of Books
'Le Monde diplomatique is more than ever indispensable to readers who want to know what governments and consensus media will not tell them' -- Eric Hobsbawm
'A crusading voice in journalism with especially good foreign coverage' -- William Dalrymple
'The essential source for alternative thinking and creative remedies' -- Harper's Magazine
'To make sense of what is happening in the world, behind the misinformation, Le Monde diplomatique is essential reading, every month, every year' -- John Berger
'Unique, invaluable, reliable, the English edition is wonderful news for those who hope to understand the world or change it for the better' -- Noam Chomsky
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part I: THE WORLD IN CRISIS
1. Permanent crisis - Slavoj Zizek; Europe’s wakeup call - Serge Halimi;
2. Reform isn’t there - James K Galbraith; Iceland’s loud No - Robert Wade and Silla Sigurgeirsdottir
Part II EMPIRE
3. US and Empire - Philip S Golub; Obama’s missed opportunity - Eric Klinenberg; America’s new, angry right - Walter Benn Michaels; US left - Rick Fantasia
Part III …AND ACROSS THE WORLD
4. UK-US The end of the affair - Jean-Claude Sergeant; Germany - Henry Menudier; Cuba’s new socialism - Renaud Lambert; Japan - Martine Bulard; Sudan’s south succeeds - Gerard Prunier
Part IV IN THE ASCENDANT
5. China and India: it's a marriage - Christophe Jaffrelot; Brazil: we’ve got the power - Lamia Oualulou; Latin America and Iran - Nikolas Kozloff; Turkey - Wendy Kristianasen
Part V ZONES OF CONFLICT
6. Palestine’s own spring - Alain Gresh; Afghanistan/Pakistan - Georges Lefeuvre; Iraq (Kurdistan) - Joost Hiltermann; North Korea - Philippe Pons; Sri Lanka: the time of triumphalism - Cédric Gouverneur
Part VI REVOLUTION: ‘ARAB SPRING'
7. Is this an Arab spring? - Georges Corm; To shoot, or not to shoot? - Salam Kawakabi and Bassma Kodmani; Power of the word in the Syrian intifada - Zenobie; Yemen knows what it doesn’t want - Laurent Bonnefoy; Egypt’s revolution is only beginning - Alain Gresh
Part VII THE QUESTION OF ISLAM
8. Arab world and Islam - Hicham al Alaoui; Islamic challenge for Europe - Haenni & Amghar; Iran uncensored - Shervin Ahmadi; Islam in Indonesia - Wendy Kristianasen
Part VIII CITIES OF THE WORLD
9. Urbanisation - Philip Golub; Detroit - Popelard; Hanoi - Xavier Montheard; Algiers - Popelard
