La nouvelle Guerre froide: le monde après le Kosovo
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In: Notebooks: the journal for studies on power, Band 1, Heft 2, S. 379-387
ISSN: 2666-7185
Abstract
One of Gramsci's most quoted phrases is his 1930 statement in the Prison Notebooks that '[t]he crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear'. This has traditionally been taken to refer to the emergence of fascism against a background of capitalist crisis and failure of anti-capitalist forces. However, a closer examination of the textual and historical context of that sentence indicates that Gramsci was more likely to have been referring to the pci's ultraleft turn in conjunction with the Comintern's Third Period.
In: Middle East critique, Band 30, Heft 1, S. 57-66
ISSN: 1943-6157
In: Development and change, Band 53, Heft 2, S. 459-466
ISSN: 1467-7660
ABSTRACTThis rejoinder responds to the Comment by Vladimir Hlasny and Paolo Verme on my article that was recently published in this journal. The acrimonious tone of their Comment is regrettable, and its content reveals a worldview according to which issues such as income inequality and its causal relation to social contention are 'technical' in nature and reserved for debate only among 'apolitical' econometricians. Beyond that, Hlasny and Verme's Comment adds precious little by way of new argument to the discussion.
In: Development and change, Band 51, Heft 3, S. 746-770
ISSN: 1467-7660
ABSTRACTThis article surveys and discusses prominent protagonists of the debate on socio‐economic inequality in the Arab region, with a special focus on the World Bank and Egypt. According to official data, the region holds remarkably low Gini coefficients in a context of declining inequality. This contradicts the popular perception of high social inequality as a major cause of regional protests since the Arab Spring; hence the reference to a 'puzzle' in mainstream literature. The debate about the reality of social inequality in the region has developed since 2011 — particularly in regard to Egypt, where income and consumption data are periodically collected by means of household surveys. Inequality measures based on this method alone, while income taxation data are inaccessible, are highly questionable and conflict with various observations and calculations based on other indicators such as national accounts, executive income or house prices. Yet, the World Bank upholds official inequality findings in portraying the Arab upheaval as the revolt of a 'middle class' that aspires to greater business freedom, in consonance with the neoliberal worldview.
In: Journal of Palestine studies, Band 45, Heft 4, S. 81-82
ISSN: 1533-8614
In: Journal of Palestine studies, Band 45, Heft 1, S. 102-103
ISSN: 1533-8614
In: Journal of Palestine studies, Band 44, Heft 3, S. 56-58
ISSN: 1533-8614
In: Journal of Palestine studies, Band 43, Heft 3, S. 72-74
ISSN: 1533-8614
In: Journal of Palestine studies: a quarterly on Palestinian affairs and the Arab-Israeli conflict, Band 43, Heft 3, S. 72-74
ISSN: 0377-919X, 0047-2654
In: International socialism: journal for socialist theory/ Socialist Workers Party, Heft 134, S. 205-206
ISSN: 0020-8736
In: Journal of Palestine studies, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 82-95
ISSN: 1533-8614
The specificity of the type of Holocaust denial on the rise in Arab countries since the 1980s is explored in contradistinction to Western Holocaust denial. The latter, rooted in anti-Semitism, is a substitute for open hatred of the Jews in countries where this hatred has not been tolerated since World War II. Holocaust denial in Arab countries, on the other hand, finds its roots in Israel's exploitation of the Holocaust for political purposes. It also serves as a simplistic explanation for Western support of the Zionist state and as an outlet for frustrations created by Israel's oppressive supremacy.
In: Journal of Palestine studies: a quarterly on Palestinian affairs and the Arab-Israeli conflict, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 82-95
ISSN: 0377-919X, 0047-2654
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