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The Best of Le Monde diplomatique 2012 Wendy Kristianasen

The Best of Le Monde diplomatique 2012 By Wendy Kristianasen

The Best of Le Monde diplomatique 2012 by Wendy Kristianasen

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Summary

Collection of the best writing from one of the world's most prestigious intellectual journals.

The Best of Le Monde diplomatique 2012 Summary

The Best of Le Monde diplomatique 2012 by Wendy Kristianasen

Le Monde diplomatique is one of the most highly respected independent periodicals. Published monthly in French and English, it brings together a diverse range of high-calibre writers from across the world.

This book collects the paper's highlights from the last year. The articles have been carefully selected and are arranged around the key themes in our changing world including US imperialism, the financial crisis and the Arab Spring. Among the contributors are Slavoj Zizek, James K Galbraith and Philip S. Golub.

A perfect seasonal gift for anyone interested in global issues, The Best of Le Monde diplomatique goes beyond the news and illuminates the state of our planet.

The Best of Le Monde diplomatique 2012 Reviews

'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

About Wendy Kristianasen

Wendy Kristianasen is the editor of Le Monde diplomatique in English, and a writer and journalist on the Middle East and wider Muslim world.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: THE WORLD IN CRISIS
1. Permanent crisis - Slavoj Zizek; Europes wakeup call - Serge Halimi;
2. Reform isnt there - James K Galbraith; Icelands loud No - Robert Wade and Silla Sigurgeirsdottir
Part II EMPIRE
3. US and Empire - Philip S Golub; Obamas missed opportunity - Eric Klinenberg; Americas 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; Cubas new socialism - Renaud Lambert; Japan - Martine Bulard; Sudans south succeeds - Gerard Prunier
Part IV IN THE ASCENDANT
5. China and India: it's a marriage - Christophe Jaffrelot; Brazil: weve got the power - Lamia Oualulou; Latin America and Iran - Nikolas Kozloff; Turkey - Wendy Kristianasen
Part V ZONES OF CONFLICT
6. Palestines own spring - Alain Gresh; Afghanistan/Pakistan - Georges Lefeuvre; Iraq (Kurdistan) - Joost Hiltermann; North Korea - Philippe Pons; Sri Lanka: the time of triumphalism - Cedric 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 doesnt want - Laurent Bonnefoy; Egypts 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

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GOR004787258
9780745331874
0745331874
The Best of Le Monde diplomatique 2012 by Wendy Kristianasen
Wendy Kristianasen
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pluto Press
2012-03-08
288
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