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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829600803321

Autore

Kristianasen Wendy

Titolo

The best of le Monde diplomatique / / edited by Wendy Kristianasen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Pluto Press, 2012

ISBN

1-84964-650-3

1-84964-649-X

Descrizione fisica

viii, 280 p

Altri autori (Persone)

KristianasenWendy

Disciplina

909.83

Soggetti

World politics

International relations

Islamic countries Politics and government 21st century

Islamic countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. VII THE QUESTION OF ISLAM -- The Arab world's cultural challenge / Hicham Ben Abdallah El. Alaoui -- Iran can't reform itself / Farhang Jahanpour -- Islamic Republic uncensored / Shervin Ahmadi -- The myth of Islamic conquest / Patrick Haenni and Samir Amghar -- Indonesia, a democracy full stop / Wendy Kristianasen -- pt. VIII ON THE MOVE: PEOPLE AND CITIES -- Africa does business in China / Tristan Coloma -- Filipino maids for export / Julien Brygo -- Greater Hanoi swallows the countryside / Xavier Monthéard -- Death of the Casbah / Allan Popelard and Paul Vannier -- America's slow ground zero / Allan Popelard and Paul Vannier -- The world has become a city / Philip S. Golub.

Sudan's south secedes / Gérard Prunier -- Somaliland, an African exception / Gérard Prunier -- pt. IV EUROPEAN DIRECTIONS -- Germany goes for sustainable capitalism / Olivier Cyran -- Academia's rebel alliance / Pierre Rimbert -- Communism revisited / Evelyne Pieiller -- pt. V ROOTS OF CONFLICT -- One state, two dreams / Alain Gresh -- Afghanistan's future lies in its past / Georges Lefeuvre -- The Taliban's secret weapon / Louis Imbert -- Now that he's gone / Jean-Luc Racine -- Red line, green line / Joost Hiltermann -- pt. VI REVOLUTION: THE 'ARAB SPRING' -- The Muslim Brothers in Egypt's



'orderly transition' / Gilbert Achcar -- To shoot, or not to shoot? / Salam Kawakibi and Bassma Kodmani -- Follow the money / Samir Aita -- Power of the word in the Syrian intifada / Zénobie -- Yemen knows what it doesn't want / Laurent Bonnefoy and Marine Poirier -- Egypt's revolution is only beginning / Alain Gresh -- How to make Libya work after Gaddafi / Patrick Haimzadeh.

pt. I THE WORLD IN CRISIS -- Europe's wakeup call / Serge Halimi -- A permanent state of emergency / Slavoj Žǐzek -- The currency wars / Laurent L. Jacque -- The wolf pack stalks Europe / James K. Galbraith -- Iceland's loud No / Robert H. Wade and Silla Sigurgeirsdottir -- pt. II US EMPIRE -- Empire as a state of being / Philip S. Golub -- Obama misses his historic moment / Eric Klinenberg and Jeff Manza -- 'We the people' / Walter Benn Michaels -- What happened to the US left? / Rick Fantasia -- A small town in the middle of everywhere / John R. MacArthur -- pt. III A SMALLER WORLD -- Cuba's new socialism / Renaud Lambert -- Brazil: we've got the power / Lamia Oualalou -- Latin America embraces Palestine / Maurice Lemoine -- A fine, and convenient, romance / Nikolas Kozloff -- Russia shouldn't work but it does / Vladislav Inozemtsev -- Can China share out the wealth? / Martine Bulard -- China and India: united against the West / Christophe Jaffrelot.