Gilbert AchcarTopics of Interest:
Development/Political Economy and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa; Sociology of Religion; Islam and Islamic Fundamentalism; Political Economy and Sociology of Globalisation; Global Power Structure and Grand Strategy; Empire Theory and US Hegemony; Social Change and Social Theory Countries/Regions of Interest: All Arab countries and Iran (MENA), Turkey, Israel, and general interest in all world regions |
List of Publications AUTHORED BOOKS: 2015 The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising, second augmented English edition, forthcoming - Japanese: in translation, forthcoming in 2016 2013 Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism, English (original), Saqi Books, London, and Haymarket, Chicago [175 pp.] - French, Actes Sud/Sindbad, Paris, 2015 - Arabic, Dar al-Adab, Beirut, 2015 2013 The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising, English, University of California Press, Los Angeles, and Saqi Books, London [358 pp.] - French: (original), Le Peuple veut. Une exploration radicale du soulèvement arabe, Actes Sud/Sindbad, Paris, 2013 [431 pp.] - Arabic: Dar al-Saqi, Beirut, 2013 (2nd printing, 2014) - Turkish: Ayrinti Yayinlari, 2014 2012 Eichmann au Caire et autres essais, French, Actes Sud/Sindbad, Paris [109 pp.] 2010 The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives, English, Metropolitan, New York, and Saqi Books, London [386 pp.] - English paperback: Picador, New York, and Saqi Books, London, 2011 - French (original): Les Arabes et la Shoah. La guerre israélo-arabe des récits, Actes Sud/Sindbad, Paris, 2009 [525 pp.] - Arabic: Al-Markaz al-Qawmi lil-Targama, Cairo, and Dar al-Saqi, Beirut, 2010 - German: Nautilus, Hamburg, 2012 - Spanish: Editorial de la Universidad Veracruzana, Veracruz, forthcoming - Hebrew: Van Leer Institute, forthcoming in 2016 2008 Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy. Dialogues on Terror, Democracy, War, and Justice, with Noam Chomsky, second augmented English edition, Paradigm Publishers, Boulder (Co.) [319 pp.] - Korean: Sakyejul, Seoul, 2009 - Persian: prohibited by Iranian censorship, posted online in 2012 2007 Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy. Dialogues on Terror, Democracy ,War, and Justice, with Noam Chomsky, English (original), Paradigm Publishers, Boulder (Co.) and Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), London [276 pp.] - Spanish: Paidós, Madrid, 2007 - Turkish: Ithaki, Istanbul, 2007 - Arabic: Dar al-Saqi, Beirut, 2007 - French: Fayard, Paris, 2007 - Greek: Polytropon, Athens, 2007 - Italian: Palomar, Bari, 2007 - English paperback, Penguin Books, London, 2008 2007 The 33-Day War: Israel’s War on Hezbollah in Lebanon and its Consequences, with Michel Warschawski, English (original), Paradigm Publishers, Boulder (Co.) and Saqi Books, London [110 pp.] - French: La guerre des 33 Jours : La guerre d’Israël contre le Hezbollah au Liban et ses conséquences, avec Michel Warschawski, Textuel, Paris, 2007 - Italian: Edizioni Alegre, Rome, 2007 - Spanish: Icaria, Madrid, 2007 - Arabic: Dar al-Saqi, Beirut, 2007 - German: Nautilus, Hamburg, 2007 - Greek: Polytropon, Athens, 2007 - Turkish: Yazin Yayincilik, Istanbul, 2007 2006 The Clash of Barbarisms: The Making of the New World Disorder, second English edition with a new foreword and a new chapter, Saqi Books, London, and Paradigm Publishers, Boulder (Co.) [192 pp.] - Italian: Edizioni Alegre, Rome, 2006 - Greek: Polytropon, Athens, 2006 - Spanish: Icaria, Madrid, 2007 - Spanish: Capital Intelectual, Buenos Aires, 2009 - Turkish: Ithaki, Istanbul, 2012 2006 The Israeli Dilemma: A Debate between Two Left-Wing Jews. Letters between Marcel Liebman and Ralph Miliband, Selected, with an introduction and epilogue by Gilbert Achcar, English, Merlin Press, London [82 pp.] - French (original): Le dilemme israélien. Un débat entre Juifs de gauche. Lettres de Marcel Liebman et Ralph Miliband. Sélection, introduction et épilogue de Gilbert Achcar, Page deux, Lausanne, 2006 [94 pp.] - Turkish, Yazin Yayincilik, Istanbul, 2008 2004 Le Choc des barbaries. Terrorismes et désordre mondial, second French edition with a new afterword, 10/18, Paris [190 pp.] - Japanese: Sakuhinsha, Tokyo, 2004 2004 Eastern Cauldron: Islam, Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq in a Marxist Mirror, English, Monthly Review Press, New York, and Pluto Press, London, 2004 [287 pp.] - French (original): L’Orient incandescent. Le Moyen-Orient au miroir marxiste, Page Deux, Lausanne (Switzerland), 2003 [352 pp.] - Arabic: Dar al-Saqi, Beyrouth-London, 2004 - Turkish: Ithaki, Istanbul, 2004 - Italian (augmented ed.), Shahrazad, Rome, 2009 - Urdu, Jamhoori Publication, Lahore, 2011 - Persian, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014 2002 The Clash of Barbarisms: September 11 and the Making of the New World Disorder, English, Monthly Review Press, New York, 2002 [128 pp.] - Le Choc des barbaries. Terrorismes et désordre mondial, French (original), Complexe, Brussels, 2002 [166 pp.] - Arabic: Dar At-Talia, Beirut, 2002 - Chinese: Dong Fang, Beijing - German: Neuer ISP Verlag, Köln, 2002 - Indian: (in English), Bagchi, Kolkotta, 2003 - Persian: Jedal, Hamburg, 2003, and Akhtaran, Tehran, 2005 - Swedish: Röda Rummet, Stockholm, 2003 - Taiwanese: Think, Taipeh, 2004 - Turkish: Everest, Istanbul, 2002 1999 La Nouvelle Guerre froide. Le monde après le Kosovo, French (original), Presses universitaires de France, Paris [111 pp.] - English: included in Tariq Ali, ed., Masters of the Universe?, Verso, London-New York, 2000 [pp. 57-144] - Rumanian: Corint, Bucarest, 2001 - Turkish (in Turkish ed. of Masters of the Universe?), OM Yayinevi, Istanbul, 2001 EDITED BOOKS: 2005 Arbeitsmarkt, Wohlfahrtsstaat, Familienpolitik und die Geschlechterfrage – deutsch-französische Konvergenzen und Divergenzen, German, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Berlin [100 pp.] - Co-editor with Dagmar Simon and Mechthild Veil - Co-author of Introduction [pp. 5-10] 2003 L’Atlas du Monde diplomatique, French (original), Le Monde diplomatique, Paris [194 pp.] - Co-editor with Alain Gresh, Jean Radvanyi, Philippe Rekacewicz and Dominique Vidal - Co-author [pp. 36-37, 96-97, 114-115, 138-139, 152-153, 156-157] - Several translations 2003 Le Nouvel Ordre Impérial, French, dossier d’Actuel Marx, n. 33, 1st Semester 2003, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris [pp. 15-120] - Editor; co-author with Samir Amin, Noam Chomsky, Gérard Duménil, John Bellamy Foster, Paolo Gilardi, Dominique Lévy, Harry Magdoff and Robert W. McChesney - “Le Nouvel Ordre Impérial ou la mondialisation de l’Empire états-unien” [pp. 15-24] 2001 L’introuvable « troisième voie » social-libérale, French, dossier de Variations, n. 2, 2d Semester 2001, Syllepse, Paris [pp. 7-177] - Editor; co-author with Denis Berger, Keith Dixon, Detlef Hensche, Philippe Marlière, John Mason, Gerassimos Moschonas, Costanzo Preve and Stavros Tombazos - “Présentation” [pp. 11-12]; “La ‘troisième voie’ ou le néolibéralisme à visage souriant” [pp. 11-30] 2000 L’Hégémonie américaine, dossier d’Actuel Marx, n. 27, 1st Semester 2000, French, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris [pp. 13-131]; - Editor; co-author with Giovanni Arrighi, Noam Chomsky, James Cohen, Peter Gowan, Fredric Jameson and Larry Portis - “D’un siècle américain à l’autre : entre hégémonie et domination” [pp. 13-22] - Spanish: La Hegemonia Norteamericana, Marx 2000, Vol. III, Kohen & Asociados Internacional, Buenos Aires 1999 The Legacy of Ernest Mandel, English, Verso, London-New York, 1999 [270 pp.]; - Editor; co-author with Robin Blackburn, Norman Geras, Michel Husson, Francisco Louçã, Michael Löwy, Charles Post and Catherine Samary; - “Introduction. Ernest Mandel (1923-1995) : un portrait intellectuel” [pp. 3-15]; - French: Le Marxisme d’Ernest Mandel, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris [239 pp.] - German: Neuer ISP Verlag, Köln, 2003 - Japanese: Tsuge Shobo Shinsha, Tokyo, 2000 - Turkish: Yazin Yayincilik, Istanbul, 1999 CONTRIBUTIONS TO COLLECTIVE BOOKS: 2015 “Le conflit des solidarités dans le monde arabe” - in La Solidarité. Enquête sur un principe juridique, edited by Alain Supiot, coll. Collège de France, Odile Jacob, Paris [pp. 213-220] 2014 The Holocaust & the Arab-Israeli War of Narratives: Critical Dialogues with Gilbert Achcar, edited by Nader Hashemi, with Nader Hashemi, Ira Chernus and Adam Rovner, English, University of Denver, Joseph Korbel School of International Studies, Center for Middle East Studies, Occasional Paper Series, no. 3, Denver [23 pp.] 2014 “La cause des Palestiniens” - in Pour les Palestiniens. Manifeste, edited by Rony Brauman, Autrement, Paris [pp. 56-65] 2013 “Nota bene: Edward Said and Avraham Burg: Two Free Voices” - in A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations: From the Origins to the Present Day, edited by Abdelwahab Meddeb and Benjamin Stora, Princeton University Press, Princeton [pp. 543-545] - French edition: Histoire des relations entre juifs et musulmans des origines à nos jours, Albin Michel, 2013 2012 “Le soulèvement arabe entre revolution et contre-révolution” - in La cassure. L’état du monde 2013, edited by Bertrand Badie and Dominique Vidal, La découverte, Paris [pp. 123-129] 2012 “The United States in the Middle East” - in Weapon of the Strong: Conversations on US State Terrorism, edited by Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, Pluto, London [pp. 173-191] 2011 “The Allon Plan and the Impediments to Palestinian Statehood” - in Perspectives Beyond War and Crisis III: What Kind of Palestinian State for What Kind of Peace?, VIDC, Vienna [pp. 73-91] 2010 “Kosmopolitismus, moderner” - in Historisch-kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus, 7 II, Institut für kritische Theorie (Inkrit), Berlin [pp. 1892-1926] 2010 “Antisémitisme et négationnisme dans l’Orient arabo-musulman” and “Nakba” - in Dictionnaire des racismes, de l’exclusion et des discriminations, edited by Esther Benbassa, Larousse, Paris [pp. 143-146, 497] 2009 “Stability and Instability in Egypt: A Closer Look at Recent Egyptian Growth” - in Claves de la Economía Mundial, 9ª edición, Instituto Español de Comercio Exterior (ICEX), Madrid [pp. 455-461] 2009 “Por detrás da crise de Gaza – entrevista com Gilbert Achcar” - in Do Muro das Lamentações ao Muro do Apartheid, Fim de Século, Lisbon [pp. 97-114] 2008 “Azmat al-Qiyāda wa al-Badā’il” - in Al-Yasār al-‘Arabi fi Muwājahat al-‘Awlama al-Niulibirāliyya, Al-Fārābi, Beirut [pp. 94-102] 2007 “Religion and Politics Today from a Marxian Perspective” - in Global Flashpoints: Reactions to Imperialism and Neoliberalism, Socialist Register 2008, Fernwood Publishing, Halifax (Canada), Merlin Press, London, and Monthly Review Press, New York [pp. 55-76] 2007 “The United States Should Withdraw from Iraq” - in The Middle East (Introducing Issues With Opposing Viewpoints), edited by Lauri Friedman, Greenhaven, Farmington Hills (MI) [pp. 85-90] 2007 “Marxism, its Outsiders Kracauer and Mills and the Sociology of Office Workers” - in Gespenst Subjekt (in German), edited by jour fixe initiative berlin, UNRAST-Verlag, Münster [pp. 39-79] 2007 “Ikhfāq al-Mashru‘ al-Tanwīri fi al-Mintaqa al-‘Arabiyya wa Shurūt Istinhādihi’ - in Azmat al-Nizām al-‘Arabi wa Ishkāliyyāt al-Nahda (Arabic), with Maher Cherif, Burhan Ghalioun and Karim Mroué, Al-Intishar al-Arabi, Beirut [pp. 99-112] 2006 “Reactions to the Nazi Judeocide in the Arab Middle East” - in Storia della Shoah. La crisi dell’Europa, lo sterminio degli ebrei e la memoria del XX secolo (in Italian), edited by Marina Cattaruzza, Marcello Flores, Simon Lewis Sullam and Enzo Traverso (Scientific Board: Omer Bartov, Philippe Burrin, Dan Diner and Saul Friedlander), UTET, Turin, vol. 2. [pp. 869-900] 2006 “Seven Theses on the Current Period, the War and the Anti-War Movement” - in Crimes of War: Iraq, edited by Richard Falk, Irene Gendzier and Robert Jay Lifton, Nation Books, New York [pp. 315-322] 2006 “The Clash of Barbarisms” - in The Geopolitics Reader, 2d ed., edited by Gearoid O. Tuathail, Simon Dalby and Paul Routledge, Routledge, London [pp. 270-274] 2006 Three contributions in the 2d edition of L’Atlas, Le Monde diplomatique, Paris [pp. 42-43, 50-51 et 54-55] 2005 “Libanon: die gefährlichen Auswirkungen der US-Einmischung” - Interview, in Nahost Reader, Achse des Friedens, Berlin, [pp. 12-16] 2005 “Guerre impériale et guerre sociale : trois propositions et une espérance” - in Guerre impériale Guerre sociale, edited by Jacques Bidet, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris [pp. 27-30] 2004 “Empire” - in Notionnaire, vol. 1, Encyclopaedia Universalis, edited by Christian Hermansen, Encyclopaedia Universalis, Paris [pp. 325-326] 2004 “Le Nouvel Ordre Impérial ou la mondialisation de l’Empire états-unien” - in Violences impériales et lutte de classes, edited by Jérôme-Alexandre Nielsberg, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris [pp. 47-59] 2004 L’Empire de la guerre permanente - edited by Attac, Mille et une nuits, Paris 2003 “Marx et Engels face à la guerre” - in Marx contemporain, edited by Arnaud Spire, Syllepse, Paris [pp. 171-184] 2002 “La mondialisation de l’Empire états-unien” -in L’Avenir du marxisme, proceedings of the colloquium organized by the Korean Political Science Association, Seoul, 27-28 September 2002 – in French and Korean translation [pp. 322-361] 2002 “La militarisation du monde et les nouvelles conditions de la paix” - in Mondialisation des résistances. L’état des luttes 2002, edited by Samir Amin and François Houtart, Forum mondial des alternatives, L’Harmattan, Paris [pp. 257-266] 2002 “The Clash of Barbarisms” - in Kritik des Gewalt Friedenspolitik im Zeichen von Krieg und Terror, edited by Anita Bilek, Wilfried Graf and Alexander Neumann, Promedia, Vienna [pp. 40-71] - in Sahibini Arayan Bariş, edited by Masis Kürkçugil, Everest, Istanbul 2000 “L’esprit (et le budget) d’une nouvelle guerre froide” - in Les États-Unis s’en vont-ils en guerre, edited by Paul-Marie De La Gorce, GRIP-Complexe, Brussels [pp. 75-84] 2000 “La Commune de Paris – 1871”, “La révolution russe de 1905” and “La guerre d’Espagne – 1936” - Three studies in Révolutions, edited by Michael Löwy, Hazan, Paris [pp. 23-33; 69-77; 355-367] 2000 “Paix et sécurité” - in Histoire et sens de la construction européenne, French Ministry of European Affairs [pp. 228-230] 1999 “Le monde selon Washington” - in Les États-Unis, maîtres du monde ?, edited by Henri Lelièvre, Complexe, Brussels [pp. 133-144] 1999 “Coup d’État et mouvement populaire” - in Octobre 1917. Causes, impact, prolongements, edited by Bruno Drweski, Presses universitaires de France, Paris [pp. 14-20] 1997 “Du réformisme aux indépendances” - in Histoire du monde arabe, website of Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris [http://www.imarabe.org] 1997 Interview with Oral Çalislar on Islamic fundamentalism - in Fethullah Gulen'den Cemalettin Kaplan'a: Islamiyet uzerine soylesiler, edited by Oral Çalislar, Pencere Yayinlari, 1. baski edition, Istanbul 1997 “Engels, penseur de la guerre, penseur de la révolution” - in Friedrich Engels, savant et révolutionnaire, edited by Georges Labica and Mireille Delbraccio, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris [pp. 139-160] PREFACES: 2015 Preface to Maxime Rodinson, Marxism and the Muslim World, Zed Books, London, 2015 [pp. ix-xi] 2013 Preface to Caroline Rooney and Rita Sakr, eds., The Ethics of Representation in Literature, Art, and Journalism: Transnational Responses to the Siege of Beirut, Routledge, London, 2013 [pp. xv-xvii] - Arabic translation in the Arabic edition of the same book, Dar al-Adāb, Beirut, 2015 [pp. 13-18] 2009 Preface to Cinzia Nachira, Identità e Conflitto. Il Caso Israelo-Palestinese (in Italian), Shahrazad, Rome [pp. 7-9] 2007 Preface to ‘Afīf Farrāj, The Oriental Roots of Greek Culture (in Arabic), Dar al-Adāb, Beirut [pp. 11-15] 2000 Preface to Noam Chomsky, Le Nouvel Humanisme militaire. Leçons du Kosovo, Page deux, Lausanne [pp. 7-19] ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS IN JOURNALS AND REVIEWS: 2015 “Impasse rentière du monde arabe: entretien avec Gilbert Achcar” - Economia, Souissi-Rabat, n. 24, June [pp. 27-32]. 2014 “After the Arab Spring: Conversation with Professor Gilbert Achcar” - FAZ, London-Islamabad, n. 01, Winter [pp. ]. 2014 “Le monde arabe entre nouvelle étape révolutionnaire et risque de régression” - Interview in ContreTemps, Paris, n. 20, 1st Quarter [pp. 11-19]. 2012 “Que peuvent les classes moyennes ? Retour sur le ‘printemps arabe’” - Le Monde diplomatique, Paris, May 2012; - Published in several other languages. 2012 “Eichmann in Cairo: The Eichmann Affair in Nasser’s Egypt” - Arab Studies Journal, Washington, vol. XX, n. 1, Spring 2012 [pp. 74-103]; - Arabic translation in Majallat al-Dirasat al-Filastiniyya, Beirut, vol. 26, n. 102, Spring 2015 [pp. 93-120]. 2012 “Arab Uprisings: Geopolitics, Strategies and Adjustment” - Interview in Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, London, n. 5 (2012) [pp. 7-14]. 2011 “Der arbeitenden Bevölkerung fehlt eine eigenständige politische Vertretung” - Interview in Emanzipation, Salzburg, vol. I, n. 2, Autumn 2011 [pp. 81-92]. 2011 “Assessing Holocaust Denial in Western and Arab Contexts” - Journal of Palestine Studies, Washington, vol. XLI, n. 1, Autumn 2011 [pp. 82-95]. 2011 “Europe and the Arab Spring” - Government Gazette, London, September 2011 [p. 30] and October 2011 [p. 99]. 2011 “The Perils of People Power” - American Review, Sidney, n. 5, August 2011 [pp. 49-54]. 2011 “Die Auslaüfer der Schockwelle” - Interview in Springerin, Vienna, vol. XVII, n. 3, Summer 2011 [pp. 30-34]. 2011 “Eine historische Chance für die Linke” - Interview in Marx 21, Berlin, n. 20, April-May 2011 [pp. 35-38]. 2011 “Libyen – eine notwendige Debatte” - Das Argument, Karlsruhe, vol. 53/2, n. 291, March-April 2011 [pp. 186-192]. 2011 Die Shoa und der arabisch-israelische Konflikt: Beiträge zu einem schwierigen Thema - pamphlet, Berlin: AphorismA-Verlag, 2011 [36 pp.]. 2011 “‘An al-‘Arab wa al-Mahraqa al-Nāziyya” - in Al-Adāb, Beirut, vol. 58, n. 9-10, September-October 2010 [pp. 89-95]. 2010 “‘An al-‘Arab wa al-Mahraqa al-Nāziyya” - in Al-Adāb, Beirut, vol. 58, n. 9-10, September-October 2010 [pp. 89-95]. 2010 “L’intellectuel symbolique : Notes sur la marge des Mémoires de Daniel Bensaïd” - in Lignes, Paris, n. 32, May 2010 [pp. 11-20]. 2010 “Blame the Grand Mufti” / “Inusable grand mufti de Jérusalem” - Le Monde diplomatique, Paris/London, May 2010; - Published in several other languages. 2010 “Al-Yasār al-‘Arabi: Hiwār Ajrāhu Wā’il ‘Abdul-Rahīm” - in Al-Adāb, Beirut, vol. 58, n. 4-5, April-May 2010 [pp. 41-46]. 2009 “Fi al-Barnāmaj al-Istrātīji lil-Nidāl al-Taharruri al-Filastīni” - in Al-Adāb, Beirut, vol. 57, n. 9-10, September-October 2009 [pp. 77-81]; - a rejoinder to a discussion of the article above was published in the same review, vol. 57, n. 11-12, November-December 2009 [pp. 95-96]. 2009 “The Right to Movement and the Right to Development”, Europa, London, May 2009, p. 9. 2008 “Religion and Politics Today from a Marxian Perspective” (from Socialist Register 2008) - Persian translation in Arash, Montmagny (France), July 2008 [pp. 34-41]; - Arabic translation in Al-Adāb, Beirut, vol. 56, n. 12, December 2008 [pp. 59-70]. 2008 “Orientalism in Reverse: Post-1979 Trends in French Orientalism” - French translation in Mouvements, Paris, n. 54, June-August 2008 [pp. 128-144]; - Radical Philosophy, London, n. 151, September-October 2008 [pp. 20-30]; - Arabic translation in Al-Adāb, Beirut, vol. 56, n. 10/11, October-November 2008 [pp. 41-52]. 2008 “États-Unis – L’assurance ultime : la suprématie militaire” - Interview, in La Brèche, Lausanne, n. 3, June-August 2008 [pp. 14-20]; - English translation in International Socialist Review, Chicago, September-October 2008 [pp. 36-41] (also posted on ZNet and several other websites); - Spanish translation in Herramienta, Buenos Aires, Año XII, n. 39, October 2008 [pp. 35-50]. 2008 “The U.S. is sowing the seeds of a long term tragedy” - Interview, in Mesele, Istanbul, n. 18, June 2008 [pp. 15-22]; - English translation on ZNet, June 2008 (several other websites and languages). 2008 “The Deepening Crisis: Islam and the Structure of Global Power” - roundtable discussion, The Humanist, Washington, vol. 67, n. 2, March/April 2008 [pp. 16-20]. 2006 “Les desseins impériaux à l’épreuve du réel” - Interview, in Mouvements, Paris, n. 47/48, September-December 2006 [pp. 158-166]; - English translation in Z Magazine, Woods Hole (MA), October 2006 [pp. 32-38]; - Spanish translation in Viento Sur, Madrid, n. 89, November 2006 [pp. 41-50]. 2006 “Getting Out of Iraq” - with Stephen Shalom, New Politics, New York, vol. X, n. 4, Winter 2006 [pp. 5-10]. 2006 “Corcuff et la théorie du complot” - ContreTemps, Paris, n. 17, September 2006 [pp. 159-170]. 2006 “Die Lage im Irak” - Inamo, Berlin, n. 47, Autumn 2006 [pp. 47-50]. 2006 “Der 33-Tage Krieg und die Resolution 1701 des UN-Sicherheitsrats” - Inamo, Berlin, n. 47, Autumn 2006 [pp. 28-31]. 2006 “Die „besondere Beziehung“ zwischen den USA und Israel” - Inamo, Berlin, n. 45, Spring 2006 [pp. 38-42]. 2005 “Sofortiger Rückzug der US-Truppen aus dem Irak?! Eine Debatte zwischen Juan Cole und Gilbert Achcar” - Inamo, Berlin, n. 44, Winter 2005 [pp. 27-30]. 2005 “Las relaciones internacionales hoy. ¿Quién diría que éste es un mundo más seguro?” - Interview, in Revista Internacional de Filosofía Política, copublished by UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Espagne) and UNAM (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México), Madrid, n. 25, July 2005 [pp. 140-146]. 2005 “Arab spring: late and cold” / “Chances et aléas du printemps arabe” - Le Monde diplomatique, Paris/London, July 2005; - Published in several other languages. 2005 “Où va l’Irak ? L’occupation états-unienne et le mouvement anti-guerre après les élections” - Une Suisse sans armée, bulletin du GSSA, Genève, n. 65, Spring 2005; - Spanish translation in Viento Sur, Madrid, n. 80, May 2005. 2005 “Mondialisation, ordre mondial et mouvement pour la paix” - Interview, in “Barbaries, résurgences, résistances”, Variations, n. 1 (nouvelle série), Parangon, Lyon, Spring 2005 [pp. 61-68]. 2005 “Marxismes et Religion, hier et aujourd’hui” - in “À quels saints se vouer ? Espaces publics et religions”, ContreTemps, Paris, n. 12, February 2005 [pp. 176-189]; - English translation posted on ZNet, USA, 21 March 2005, and several other websites; - Spanish translation in Viento Sur, Madrid, n. 81, July 2005 [pp. XXX]; - Persian translation in Arash, Montmagny (France), July 2008 [pp. 57-63]. 2004 “Maxime Rodinson : Sur l’intégrisme islamique – Un entretien inédit” - in “Islam et modernité”, Mouvements, Paris, n. 36, November-December 2004 [pp. 72-76]; - English translation in Middle East Report, Washington, n. 233, Winter 2004 [pp. 2-4]. 2004 “El imperialismo americano en las llamas orientales” - Interview, in Viento Sur, Madrid, n. 76, October 2004 [pp. 7-16]. 2004 “Fantasy of a Region that Doesn’t Exist. Greater Middle East: the US plan” / “Le nouveau masque de la politique américaine au Proche-Orient” - Le Monde diplomatique, Paris/London, April 2004; - published in several other languages; - reprinted in Sous le sceau des croisades, Manière de Voir, Paris, n. 78, December 2004-January 2005. 2004 “US Imperial Strategy in the Middle East” - Monthly Review, New York, vol. 55, n. 9, February 2004 [pp. 23-36]; - Brazilian translation in Outubro, São Paulo, n. 11, 2d Semester 2004 [pp. 7-22]. 2003 “Lettre à un/e militant/e antiguerre passablement déprimé/e” - Le Passant Ordinaire, Bègles, n. 45/46, June-September 2003 [pp. 10-11]. 2003 “La guerre d’Irak et l’instauration d’un ‘nouvel ordre impérial’” - Interview, in Mouvement, Paris, n. 22, May-June 2003 [pp. 6-7]. 2003 “Sur le mouvement anti-guerre et ses perspectives : réponse à Perry Anderson” - Mouvements, Paris, n. 27/28, May-August 2003 [pp. 142-164]. 2003 “Washington Watches over EU and Nato Expansion: Auxiliary Americans” / “L’OTAN à la conquête de l’Est” - Le Monde diplomatique, Paris/London, January 2003; - published in several other languages. 2001 “La mondialisation de la ‘manifest destiny’ des États-Unis” - Recherches internationales, Paris, n. 4, 2002 [pp. 49-53]. 2002 “Engels: theorist of war, theorist of revolution” - International Socialism, London, n. 97, Winter 2002 [pp. 69-89]. 2002 “Le Choc des barbaries. Le 11 septembre et ses lendemains” - Contretemps, Paris, n. 3, January 2002 [pp. 9-28]. 2001 “Wish Lists of Washington, Moscow and Beijing: A Trio of Soloists” / “Jeu triangulaire entre Washington, Moscou et Pékin” - Le Monde diplomatique, Paris/London, December 2001; - published in several other languages. - reprinted in L’Empire contre l’Irak, Manière de Voir, Paris, n. 67, January-February 2003. 2001 “The Spirit (and the Budget) of a New Cold War” - The Spokesman, Bertand Russell Peace Foundation, Nottingham, n. 70, 2001 [pp. 28-33]. 2001 “Small Forgotten Conflicts: Fin de siècle gloom” / “Bilans Stratégiques: Morosité ‘fin de siècle’” - Le Monde diplomatique, Paris/London, March 2001; - published in several other languages. 2000 “Le “pessimisme historique” de Perry Anderson” - Actuel Marx, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, n. 28, 2d Semester 2000 [pp. 196-202] ; - English translation in International Socialism, London, n. 88, Autumn 2000 [pp. 135-141]; - Brazilian translation in Lutas sociais, Pulsar, São Paulo, n. 8, 1st Semester 2002 [pp. 79-85]. 2000 “Le monde au seuil du XXIe siècle” - Le Monde diplomatique, Paris, January 2000. 1999 “La sociologie du pouvoir chez Ibn Khaldoun – une lecture wébérienne” - Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, vol. CVII, July-December 1999 [pp. 369-388]. 1999 “Is NATO’s Onslaught a ‘Just War’?” - Monthly Review, New York, vol. 51, n. 2, June 1999 [pp. 15-19] - Labour Focus on Eastern Europe, London, n. 63, Summer 1999 [pp. 36-43]; - Spanish translation in Marx Ahora, Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, Havana, n. 9, 2000 [pp. 141-145]. 1999 “How Nato Survived the Cold War: Eastward bound” / “L’OTAN: Toujours plus à l’Est” - Le Monde diplomatique, Paris/London, April 1999; - published in several other languages; - reprinted in La nouvelle guerre des Balkans, Manière de Voir, Paris, n. 45, May 1999. 1999 “Libéralisme et néo-babouvisme aux sources du marxisme” - L’Homme et la Société, revue internationale de recherches et de synthèses en sciences sociales, L’Harmattan, Paris, n. 132-133, April-September 1999 (1999/2-3) [pp. 53-80]; - Spanish translation in Marx Ahora, Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, Havana, n. 14, 2002 [pp. 49-67]. 1998 “Halting the Proliferation of Chemical and Biological Weapons: The spectre of bioterrorism” / “Le spectre du ‘bioterrorisme’” - Le Monde diplomatique, Paris/London, July 1998; - published in several other languages; - reprinted in Penser le XXIe siècle, Manière de Voir, Paris, n. 52, July 2000. 1998 “The Strategic Triad: the United States, Russia and China” - New Left Review, London, n. 228, March/April 1998 [pp. 91-126]; - Abridged version of the French original in Cahiers d’Études Stratégiques, Groupe de Sociologie de la Défense, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, n. 21, June 1998 [pp. 67-94]. 1997 “The Arab World: Absence of democracy” / “Le monde arabe orphelin de la démocratie” - Le Monde diplomatique, Paris/London, June 1997; - published in several other languages; - reprinted in Proche-Orient, rebâtir la paix, Manière de Voir, Paris, n. 54, November 2000. 1995 “Les Nations unies au fil des objectifs américains” - Le Monde diplomatique, Paris, October 1995; - published in several other languages; - reprinted in Le nouveau modèle américain, Manière de Voir, Paris, n. 31, August 1996. 1995 “Genèse du Léviathan impérial américain” et “Empire, impérial, impérialisme” - Actuel Marx, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, n. 18, 2d Semester 1995 [pp. 85-104] ; - Spanish translation in Marx Ahora, Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, Havana, n. 10, 2000 [pp. 139-149]. 1994 “Le sionisme et la paix : Du plan Allon aux Accords de Washington” - L’Homme et la Société, revue internationale de recherches et de synthèses en sciences sociales, L’Harmattan, Paris, n. 114, October-December 1994 (1994/4) [pp. 7-25]; - English translation in New Politics, New York, vol. V, n. 3, Summer 1995 [pp. 95-115]; - Arabic translation in Al Mustaqbal Al ‘Arabi, Centre for Arab Unity Studies, Beirut, n. 195, May 1995 [pp. 10-24]. BOOK REVIEWS: 2015 “Arab Responses to Fascism and Nazism: Attraction and Repulsion”, review of the book edited by Israel Gershoni - Journal of Palestine Studies, Washington, vol. XLIV, n. 3, Spring 2015 [pp. 56-58]. 2014 “The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge”, review of the book by Ilan Pappé - Journal of Palestine Studies, Washington, vol. XLIII, n. 3, Spring 2014 [pp. 72-74]. 2012 “Confronting Fascism in Egypt: Dictatorship Versus Democracy in the 1930s”, review of the book by Israel Gershoni and James Jankowski - Arab Studies Journal, Washington, vol. XX, n. 1, Spring 2012 [pp. 162-166]. SELECTED ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS IN (DAILY OR WEEKLY) PRESS AND/OR ON WEBSITES: 2015 “Há um grande jogo na região”, interview with Luis Araujo, Zero Hora, Porto Alegre, 29 March 2015 “Hiwār ma‘ Gilbert al-Ashqar”, interview with Odai al-Zoubi, Al-Jumhuriyya (aljumhuriya.net), 11 March 2015 “Kalıcı barış demokrasiyle mümkün”, interview with Sedat Yılmaz, Ozgür Gündem, Istanbul, 10 March 2015 “Qu’est-ce que ‘l’islamo-fascisme’”, interview with Caroline Hayek, L’Orient-Le Jour, Beirut, 17 February 2015 “‘Alayna an nakhluqa qutban thalithan”, interview with Dina Kabil, Correspondents.org, Cairo, 8 January - “We’re Facing an Important Crossroad”, Correspondents.org, English, 9 January 2014 “Arab Spring Has Now Turned into a Winter”, interview with Vidya Venkat, The Hindu, Chennai, 22 December 2014 “New but Still Cold”, interview with Ilya Budraitskis, LeftEast (criticatac.ro/lefteast), Moscow, 19 December - initially published in Russian translation at OpenLeft.ru, 16 December 2014 “Problems of Transition from Capitalism” (in Farsi), interview with Saeed Rahnema, Naqd Iqtisad Siyassi (pecritique.com), 7 October - printed in Shargh, Tehran, 5 April 2015 2014 “The people want – but do they have a chance?”, interview, openDemocracy, 21 February (+ several other websites and languages). 2014 “Que reste-t-il du Printemps arabe ?”, L’Orient littéraire, Beirut, February (+ several websites and languages). 2013 “Welcoming the vote of the British Parliament while supporting the Syrian uprising”, openDemocracy, 31 August (+ several other websites and languages). 2012 “Philo- and Anti-Semitism in Germany”, interview, Jadaliyya, 28 June (+ several other websites and languages). 2012 “Never Again (On the Günter Grass Poem Affair)”, Middle East Monitor, 1st May (+ several other websites and languages). 2012 “There’s a Fear that the Fall of Assad would Lead to Worse for Western Interests and Israel...”, interview, ZNet, 6 April (+ several other websites and languages). 2012 “Springtime for the Arab Left?”, interview, International Viewpoint, April (+ several other websites and languages). 2012 “L’évolution de la gauche arabe au XXe siècle : crise, marginalisation et perspectives”, Table ronde : La gauche et les révolutions arabes, ContreTemps, 17 February (+ Spanish translation on Rebelión.org). 2012 “Desigualdade gerou ‘primavera árabe’”, interview, Jornal UNESP, São Paulo, January/February (+ several other websites and languages). 2012 “Theses on the ‘Arab Spring’”, Jadaliyya, 29 January (+ several other websites and languages). 2012 “Al-Intihāziyyūn wal-Thawra”, Al-Akhbar, Beirut, 25 January; - “Opportunists and the Revolution”, Al-Akhbar English, 27 January (+ several other websites and languages). 2012 “Arab Revolutions: One year on”, International Viewpoint, January (+ several other websites and languages). 2012 “‘17 Disambir 2010’ Bidāyat Sayrūra Thawriyya Tawīlat al-Amad”, Al-Akhbar, Beirut, 10 January; - “The Bouazizi Spark: The Beginning of a Long Revolutionary Process”, Al-Akhbar English, 10 January (+ several other websites and languages). 2011 “Sūriyā: Bayn al-‘Askarat wa al-Tadakhkhul al-‘Askari wa Ghiyāb al-Strātijiyya”, Al-Akhbar, Beirut, 16 November; - “Syria: Militarization, Military Intervention and the Absence of Strategy”, Al-Akhbar English, 18 November (+ several other websites and languages). 2011 “Poder dos EUA diminui no Oriente Médio”, interview, Folha de São Paulo, 15 October. 2011 “After Gaddafi”, interview, New Left Project, 4 September (+ several other websites and languages). 2011 “Popular Rebellion and Imperialist Designs”, interview, New Left Project, 26 August (+ several other websites and languages). 2011 “The One Billion Dollar Question: Who Are the Libyan Rebels?”, interview, Democracy Now, 24 August. 2011 “NATO’s ‘Conspiracy’ Against the Libyan Revolution”, Jadaliyya, 17 August (+ several other websites and languages); - Arabic adaptation, Al-Akhbar, Beirut, 29 and 30 August. 2011 “Amīrka Talhath warā’ Qitār al-Thawrāt”, interview, Al-Akhbar, Beirut, 22 June; - “The Revolution Has Just Begun”, English adaptation, Al-Akhbar English, 24 August (+ several other websites and languages). 2011 “Al-Namūzaj al-Irāni Mustab‘ad fi Misr”, Al-Ahram Gate, Cairo, 19 May. 2011 “The Libyan Insurrection between Gaddafi’s Hammer, NATO’s Anvil and the Left’s Confusion: Results and Prospects”, ZNet, 23 April (+ several other websites and languages); - Arabic adaptation, Al-Akhbar, Beirut, 29 April. 2011 “Libya: A Legitimate and Necessary Debate from an Anti-Imperialist Perspective”, ZNet, 25 March (+ several other websites and languages). 2011 “Un’onda dal basso scuote il mondo arabo”, Il Manifesto, Rome, 26 January. 2010 “Israel: The Writing on the Wall”, Open Democracy, 29 June (+ several other websites). 2010 “The League Against Denial”, interview (in Hebrew), Yedioth Ahronoth, Tel Aviv, 27 April, pp. 4-5 (English translation in The Jerusalem Report, 2 May, pp. 18-21; in English and other languages on several websites). 2010 “Sait-on qu’un Palestinien a créé un musée de l’Holocauste”, interview, Libération, Le mag, Paris, 27 March (reptd. 31 March in the daily). 2010 “Le négationnisme est un phénomène relativement récent dans le monde arabe”, interview, Le Courrier, Geneva, 22 March. 2010 “Réfuter les caricatures”, interview, Politis, Paris, 18 February. - “Refuting Caricatures: An Interview with Gilbert Achcar”, English translation, Truthout, 15 March (+ several other websites). 2009 “Pourquoi le négationnisme progresse dans le monde arabe”, interview, Mediapart (Internet), Paris, 9 November. - “Why Holocaust Denial Is on the Rise in the Arab World”, English translation, Truthout, 12 November (+ several other websites). 2009 “Al-Nizām al-Masri Yajma‘ Sayyi’āt Nizām al-Sūq wa Nizām al-Shumūliyyat”, Al-Dustūr, Cairo, 24 July. 2009 “Cacciato lo spettro di George W.”, Il Manifesto, Rome, 5 June; Arabic: Al-Akhbar, Beirut, 9 June. - “Obama’s Cairo Speech”, Znet, 6 June (+ several other websites and languages). 2009 “Obama and the Middle East”, Znet, 12 May (+ several other websites and languages); - in print: Italian: “Washington attende le elezioni a Tehran: Iran, la carota di Barack contro il bastone di Bush”, Il Manifesto, Rome, 21 May; Arabic: Al-Akhbar, Beirut, 21 May. 2009 “Lampedusa simbolo della negazione: Se l’Europa rinuncia al ‘diritto d’ospitalità’”, Il Manifesto, Rome, 29 March. 2009 “The Crisis in Gaza: An Interview with Gilbert Achcar”, Irish Left Review (Internet), 17 January (+ several other websites and languages). 2008 “Un’aggressione premeditate”, Il Manifesto, Rome, 28 December (+ several websites and languages). 2008 “Entretien avec Gilbert Achcar: ‘L’état des lieux dans le monde arabe est lamentable’”, interview, Algérie Focus (Internet), 9 November. 2008 “La crisi a Beirut non è chiusa, ci vuole il dialogo, anche con Damasco”, interview, Il Manifesto, Rome, 29 May (+ several websites and languages). 2007 “Pour un modèle social européen”, Politis, Paris, 1st November. 2007 “Q&A: ‘U.S. Politics Turning Communities Against Each Other”, interview, Inter Press Service (Internet), 23 November. 2007 “On the Middle East: An Interview with Gilbert Achcar”, interview, State of Nature (Internet), Autumn. 2007 “Lebanon at a Crossroads”, Red Pepper, London, April. 2007 “The Iraqi Debacle”, interview, ZNet, 22 January (+ several other websites and languages). 2006 “Lebanon: The 33-Day War and UNSC Resolution 1701”, ZNet, 16 August (+ several other websites and languages). 2006 “The Sinking Ship of U.S. Imperial Designs”, ZNet, 6 August (+ several other websites and languages). 2006 “A Gaza e Beirut, barbarie asimmetrica”, interview, Il Manifesto, Rome, 28 July. 2006 “La question des milices. Les territoires occupés. La présence de l’ONU”, interview, L’Humanité-Dimanche, Paris, 27 July. 2006 “Libano sull’orlo di una guerra civile. Decisivo il ruolo del governo”, interview, Liberazione, Rome, 18 July. 2006 “The Failure of the Enlightenment Project in the Arab Region and the conditions of its Resurrection” (in Arabic), in Arab dailies As-Safir, Beirut, 16 June, and Al-Quds al-Arabi, London, 26 June. 2006 “An Interview with Gilbert Achcar”, interview, State of Nature (Internet), Spring. 2006 “El choque de barbaries”, Diagonal, Madrid, n. 25, 2-15 March. 2006 “First Reflections on the Electoral Victory of Hamas”, ZNet, 27 January (+ several other websites and languages). 2006 “Iraq: The Case for Immediate Withdrawal”, interview, World War 4 Report (Internet), 1st January 2006 (+ several other websites and languages). 2005 “Assessing China”, ZNet, 25 June. 2005 “Whither Iraq? The US occupation and the antiwar movement after the election”, ZNet, 25 February (+ several other websites and languages). 2005 “Reply to Alex Callinicos”, ZNet, 19 January 2005, and “Second Reply to Alex Callinicos”, ZNet, 27 January (+ several other websites and languages). 2005 “On the Forthcoming Election in Iraq”, ZNet, 3 January (+ several other websites and languages). 2004 “Seven theses on the current period, the war and the anti-war movement”, ZNet, 9 September (+ several other websites and languages). 2004 “The Late French Orientalist Maxime Rodinson and the Issues of Political Islam and Fundamentalism” (in Arabic), Al Hayat, London, 5 September. 2004 “O Atoleiro Iraquiano”, interview, Movimento, Porto Alegre, n. 1, October-November [pp. 38-41]. 2004 “Irak : L’impérialisme américain dans un bourbier”, interview, La Brèche, Lausanne, June 2004; English translation ‘Iraq’s Year of Blood’, Frontline, Glasgow, July, and on ZNet. 2004 “Self-Deception and Selective Expertise: Bush’s Cakewalk into the Iraq Quagmire”, CounterPunch, Internet, 5 May. 2004 “La perspective d'un monde où les nations vivront en harmonie”, L’Humanité, Paris, 20 February. 2003 “Le nouvel embourbement américain”, interview, L’Humanité, Paris, 14 November. 2003 “Au pays du prophète, des princes, du pétrole et de ben Laden”, interview, Alternatives, Montreal, vol. 10, n. 4, December. 2003 “Europa después de la guerra de Irak”, interview, Accion, Buenos Aires, 2d fortnight of June. 2003 “Vasallen rykker lidt i laenken”, interview, Salt, Copenhagen, June. 2003 “Lettre à un/e militant/e antiguerre passablement déprimé/e”, 13 April, L’Humanité (Paris), La Libre Belgique (Brussels), Le Courrier (Geneva), Liberazione (Rome), ZNet, etc. (+ several websites and languages). 2000 “Le visage inquiétant du nouveau siècle”, interview, Avancées, Brussels, February 2000. 1999 “The Age of Extremes, the Age of Massacres” (in Arabic), An-Nahar 2000, special supplement of An-Nahar, Beirut, 20 December. 1997 “Les multiples visages de l’intégrisme islamique”, websites of Alternatives, Montreal, and Forum mondial des alternatives. 1994 Series of interviews on Islamic Fundamentalism by Oral Çalislar, published in the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet, 15, 16 et 17 August; reprinted in a book of interviews by Oral Çalislar, AFA, Istanbul, 1996 (in Turkish). EARLIER PUBLICATIONS (selection): 1991 The Gulf War and the New World Order, with André Gunder Frank, IIRE, Amsterdam. 1991 Bush Imperator: Guerre du Golfe et Nouvel Ordre Mondial, La Brèche, Paris - Editor; co-author with André Gunder Frank, Abraham Serfaty, Michel Warschawski and Marcello Weksler; 1989 Palestina : Dove va l’OLP ?, Nuove Edizioni Internazionali, Milan. 1983 The Israeli Invasion of Lebanon and its Consequences, At-Tajammu‘, Beirut (in Arabic). 1981 Reader on Bureaucracy, Dar at-Talī‘a, Beirut (in Arabic) - selection, translation and introduction. 1978 Power Relations in the Arabian Peninsula, FMA, Beirut. 1978 Sobre el nuevo capital financiero arabe e irani, Ediciones El Caballito, Mexico - Spanish translation of the 1975 debate with Ernest Mandel,. 1977 The Arab and International War in Lebanon, At-Tajammu‘, Beirut (in Arabic). 1975-1977 Several files on the economy, institutions and politics of Arab countries, Arab World File, Beirut. 1976 The Civil War in Lebanon, At-Tajammu‘, Beirut (in Arabic). 1975 “L’émergence d’un nouveau mythe” - Debate with Ernest Mandel on ‘Arab and Iranian financial capital’, in Critiques de l’économie politique, Maspero, Paris, n. 22, October-December 1975. 1974 Tertiary Sector and Development: The Service Sector in the Lebanese Economy, Research Centre of the Institute of Social Sciences – Lebanese University, Beirut (in Arabic) 1972 Problems of the Arab Revolution, Dar al-Ittihād, Beirut (in Arabic). - Editor and co-author. |
Gilbert Achcar was born in 1951 in Senegal, grew up in Lebanon (1960-1983), lived in Paris (1983-2003) and Berlin (2003-2007), and is based in London since 2007. He graduated from the Faculty of Social Sciences, Lebanese University (Beirut) and the Ecole Supérieure des Lettres de Beyrouth (branch of Université Lyon-II), and got his PhD in Social History from the Université de Paris-8. He taught and/or researched in Beirut (Faculty of Social Sciences, Lebanese University), Paris (American University of Paris and Université de Paris-8) and Berlin (Centre Marc Bloch, CNRS). He is currently Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, University of London), Department of Development Studies. He is co-founder and chair of the Centre for Palestine Studies at SOAS since 2012. His many books include: The Clash of Barbarisms: The Making of the New World Disorder (2002, 2nd augm. ed. 2006); Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy, co-authored with Noam Chomsky (2007, 2nd augm. ed. 2008); The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives (2010, 2nd ed. 2011); Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism (2013); and The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising (2013, 2nd augm. ed. forthcoming in 2016). |