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This volume brings together Gilbert Achcar's major writings on these issues. The essays collected in The Eastern Cauldron describe and explain the resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism, the fate of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and its aftermath, and above all the Palestinian conflict - in which the regional stakes are so dramatically embodied and contested. Achcar analyzes the social bases, strategies and tactics of PLO, Hizbollah, Israel and the United States from the establishment of the state of Israel to the second Intifada. He pinpoints the contradictions of the Israeli state - seeking at the same time to be Jewish and yet democratic - and the impact of these contradictions on all parties to the conflict.

Table of Contents:
Part 1: The resurgence of Islamic Fundamentalism 1. Eleven theses on the resurgence of Islamic Fundamentalism 2. The swan song of Khomeinism 3. The absence of democracy Part 2: Afghanistan: The dilemma of the super powers 4. The Soviet Intervention 5. Afghanistan: eight years on from Soviet intervention 6. The implications of the Soviet troop withdrawal 7. After the fall of Najibullah: The Lebanonization of Afghanistan Part 3: Palestine: Another uprising 8. Self-determination of the Palestinian people 9. Four months of the uprising: Rebellion continues against Israel's "Apartheid" 10. The PLO: The long march backwards 11. The PLO: Questions of practical politics 12. The dynamic of the intifada 13. Washington accords: A retreat under pressure 14. Zionism and peace: From the Allon plan to the Washington accords 15. The Hizbollah victory 16. Israel's military onslaught and U.S interests in the Middle East Afterword: After the U.S invasion of Iraq Notes Index

About the Author :
Born in Lebanon, Gilbert Achcar teaches politics and international relations at the University of Paris - VIII and is a regular contributor to Le Monde Diplomatique and various other journals. His most recent book, The Clash of Barbarisms, sold 3000 copies in six months for Monthly Review Press in the US. Achcar is a fellow of the IIRE (The International Institute for Research and Education) in Amsterdam.

Review :
'Informed by strong moral and political commitments but is never limited to polemic. His work demonstrates the immense capacities of Marxism to illuminate economic, political and ideological developments without losing sight of their concrete singularity and their complex interconnection. His analyses are supple and inventive, and consistently informed by reflection on rival traditions of political thought and a deep knowledge of the region'


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780745322032
  • Publisher: Pluto Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press
  • Height: 230 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Sub Title: Islam, Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq in a Marxist Mirror
  • Width: 150 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0745322034
  • Publisher Date: 20 May 2004
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 400 gr


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