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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: On Cold Wars and the New Cold War -- Part I Genesis of the New Cold War -- Chapter One - The Strategic Triad: The United States, Russia and China -- Chapter Two - Rasputin Plays Chess: How the World Stumbled into a New Cold War -- Part II How the New Cold War Got Quite Hot -- Transition: Moves and Countermoves on the Grand Chessboard -- Chapter Three - Vladimir the Terrible: An Opera in Five Acts -- Chapter Four - China: End of the Peaceful Rise? -- Conclusion: Where Do We Go from Here? -- Notes -- Index.

Introduction : of revolutionary cycles and seasons --. - "Democratic transition" and revolutionary process --. - One revolution, two counter-revolutions --. - Syria : the clash of barbarisms --. - The abandonment of the Syrian people --. - The making of the Syrian disaster --. - The Assad regime's preferred enemy --. - Turkey's and the Gulf monarchies' preferred friends --. - The Syrian predicament --. - Russian intervention and Western wavering --. - Whither Syria? --. - Egypt : the "23 July" of Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi --. - How the Muslim Brotherhood's bid for power unfolded --. - Neither lion nor fox --. - Incensing the country --. - Enter Tamarrod --. - Nasserist illusions --. - The military's second hijacking of the people's will --. - The ruthless rise of Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi --. - The tailoring of Sisi's presidential suit --. - The farcical aspect of Egypt's tragedy --. - Neoliberal constancy --. - Megalomania and megaprojects --. - The military's takeover of Egypt --. - Whither Egypt? --. - Conclusion : "Arab winter" and hope --. - Libya and Yemen : two variations on the same tune --. - The Tunisian "model" and its limits --. - The Arab left and the strategic challenge

""The people want . . ."": This first half of slogans chanted by millions of Arab protesters since 2011 revealed a long-repressed craving for democracy. But huge social and economic problems were also laid bare by the protestors' demands. Simplistic interpretations of the uprising that has been shaking the Arab world since a young street vendor set himself on fire in Central Tunisia, on 17 December 2010, seek to portray it as purely political, or explain it by culture, age, religion, if not conspiracy theories. Instead, Gilbert Achcar locates the deep roots of the upheaval in the s

In this collection of essays, Gilbert Achcar examines the controversial relationship of Marxism to religion, to Orientalism and its critique by Edward Said, and to the concept of cosmopolitanism. A compelling range of issues is discussed within these pages, including a comparative assessment of Christian liberation theology and Islamic fundamentalism; ?Orientalism in reverse", which can take the form of an apology for Islamic fundamentalism; the evolution of Marx's appraisal of non-Western societies; and the vagaries of ?cosmopolitanism" up to our present era of globalisation. Erudite a

Preface -- Lebanon, from its origins to July 12, 2006 -- Hezbollah, from its origins to July 12, 2006 -- The thirty-three-day war and its consequences in Lebanon -- Israel, between its "second Lebanon War" and its participation in Washington's "Global war" -- Conclusion : the sinking ship of U.S. imperial designs