Böcker av Gilbert Achcar

Israel has seized the opportunity of Hamas's operation on 7 October 2023 to devastate Gaza, reducing it to rubble, massacring a huge number of its inhabitants and forcing the rest to flee. Another Nakba is underway 75 years after the creation of Israel. This booklet includes articles by Gilbert Achcar written as the Israeli onslaught started unfolding in Gaza. He explains why the population of Gaza is facing such 'massive extermination', and argues that the refusal of Western governments to call for a ceasefire is making them accomplices to crimes against humanity.

One of the world's most seasoned international relations experts argues that the Cold War did not end with the collapse of the USSR - and that the US, Russia and China today are locked in a spiral of hostilities ongoing since the 1990's.

Ernest Mandel (1923-1995) was a theorist of activist Marxism. Leader of the international Trotskyist movement, lifelong revolutionary, and scholar of world renown, Mandel was one of those few individuals who combined the roles of political leader and respected intellectual.

The essential guide to understanding the roots and continuing significance of the Arab uprisings. This edition features a new preface and postscript drawing a balance sheet of the regional uprising's first decade.

Middle East experts Gilber Achcar and Michel Warschawski assess the causes and consequences of the 2006 war in Lebannon.

Leading French scholar examines the major flashpoints in the Middle East and what the future holds.

This book provides the best readable introduction for all who wish to understand the complex issues related to the Middle East from a perspective dedicated to peace and justice.

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 critic on US foreign policy, and Gilbert Achcar, a leading Middle East specialist, bring a keen understanding of the Middle East and the role of the US, covering such key topics as terrorism, fundamentalism, oil and democracy, as well as the war in Afghanistan, the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the origins of US foreign policy.

In this sequel to his landmark exploration of the Arab uprisings, The People Want, Gilbert Achcar assesses the present stage of the revolutionary process and its possible outcomes.

An original, Marxist appraisal of cosmopolitanism, religion and politics, and Edward Said's Orientalism thesis. Will be seen as a key text for readers in political science, international relations, political economy, Marxist studies, and cultural studies.

Drawing on previously unseen sources in multiple languages, Achcar offers a unique ideological mapping of the Arab world, and in the process defusing an international propaganda war that has become a major stumbling block in the path of Arab-Western understanding.

Provides an assessment of the Israel-Lebanon conflict. This work describes the popular basis of Hezbollah in Lebanon among the Shiites, and its relation to the country's other religious communities and political forces. It analyzes the regional roles of Syria, Iran and Hamas as well as the politics of US and Europe.

The London bombings of 7 July 2005 revived the debates that raged after September 11 2001. This work develops a counter-thesis, namely that the clashes we are witnessing do not oppose civilizations, but their dark sides. Bush administration doesn't embody the values of 'Western civilization' nor does al-Qa'ida represent 'Islamic civilization'.