Podcast appearances and mentions of Gilbert Achcar

Suzi talked to Gilbert Achcar just before the spectacular collapse of the Assad regime that has ruled Syria for more than fifty years. Achcar, author of many books on the region, explains Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)'s origins, what is behind the lightning offensive that toppled Assad's government, and how that overthrow was prepared by Israel's war on Lebanon and Gaza. We will also get Gilbert's take on the collapse of the political center and rise of the far right worldwide, including in France and the US. What new dangers does Gilbert see for the Middle East with Trump's election? The conversation was recorded December 5. Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman features conversations with leading thinkers and activists, with a focus on labor, the economy, and protest movements.

Yahya Sinwar was the face of the Palestinian armed struggle against Israel's decades-long occupation. The Israeli military says he was killed during a fire-fight with Israeli forces in southern Gaza. Israel's Prime Minister praised his killing and called it the beginning of the end of the war on Gaza. But how will this affect the ceasefire efforts and the fate of the Israeli captives? And what does it mean for the Palestinian resistance? In this episode: Azzam Tamimi, Author, 'Hamas: Unwritten Chapters'. Gilbert Achcar, Professor, Development Studies & International Relations, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Tamer Qarmout, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. Host: James Bays  Connect with us:@AJEPodcasts on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook At Al Jazeera Podcasts, we want to hear from you, our listeners. So, please head to https://www.aljazeera.com/survey and tell us your thoughts about this show and other Al Jazeera podcasts. It only takes a few minutes!

As much as this US presidential election has been dominated by domestic affairs such as the economy and reproductive rights – the current most consequential foreign policy issue is without a doubt the risk of a regional war in the Middle East. In this week's episode of Policy Voices, host Catarina Vila Nova sits down with Gilbert Achcar, Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. They discuss the differences between the approaches of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, if any, and Europe's limited role in the conflict. This conversation was recorded on 10 October. On 15 October, the US gave Israel an ultimatum that it would limit its military aid to Israel if humanitarian aid to Gaza doesn't dramatically increase in the next 30 days. If you want to comment on this episode you can send us an e-mail: press@friendsofeurope.org

Thirteen years have passed since the Arab Spring and the great hopes aroused in 2011 have been overwhelmed by counter-revolution and civil war. And yet, the region is anything but restabilised: Instead of the events of 2011 heralding a brief period of democratic transition akin to earlier developments in East Asia and Eastern Europe they instead, Gilbert Achcar argues, inaugurated a long-term revolutionary process, based in a deep-rooted socioeconomic crisis that is far from played out. In this talk Gilbert assesses the dynamics of MENA region, the factors hindering regional change, and he cautions against overly optimistic readings, while nonetheless arguing that there remain reasons for hope.

Israel has ramped up its strike on Hezbollah, killing civilians in Lebanon. Combined with the war on Gaza, could this exchange escalate into a regional one? In this episode: Gilbert Achcar, Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at SOAS. Hala Jaber, Journalist and Author.  Elijah J Magnier, Military analyst.  Host: Adrian Finighan  Connect with us:@AJEPodcasts on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Threads and YouTube

As speculation mounts that the current four-day pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza could soon be extended, we speak to Gilbert Achcar, professor of development studies and international relations at SOAS, University of London. He says that Western leaders – and US President Joe Biden in particular – have backed themselves into a corner with their initial unwavering support of Israel's military operation, as the sheer scale of human suffering within Gaza becomes clear.

Emancipatory religion rooted in proto-communism? Heh. Sorry bub. Don't you know I'm an......atheist??? Reading: "Religion and Politics Today From a Marxian Perspective" (2008) by Gilbert Achcar Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/MWPap7xJ

For my second episode on the Gaza War I spoke to Gilbert Achcar about his recent article outlining two possible endgames for Israel in its war on Gaza. One of his scenarios is based on annexing Gaza, and the other involves a return to the peace process.Gilbert Achcar is a Lebanese socialist academic and writer. He is a Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London.You can read Gilbert's article here: https://newlinesmag.com/argument/two-gaza-scenarios-greater-israel-vs-oslo/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 1999 in the wake of the Kosovo conflict Gilbert Achcar published a book titled 'The New Cold War: The World After Kosovo'. At the time, describing tensions between the United States, Russia and China in terms of "a cold war" seemed to many to be outlandish hyperbole, or very premature at best. Now, of course the use of the term to describe the global situation is increasingly commonplace, but if we are indeed in a cold war - the question arises - when did it begin? Should it be dated in Russia's case to the 2008 Georgia war, in China to the rise of Xi Jinping and the repression in Hong Kong - or do we need to think back much further? In today's episode Gilbert Achcar joins the show to discuss his new book, 'The New Cold War: The US, Russia and China - From Kosovo to Ukraine', in which he builds upon his earlier work to argue that the current situation is rooted in events and key decisions made during the 1990s, including the devastating collapse of the Russian economy, the failure to create a new security architecture in Europe after the end of the cold war, and in increasing US-China tensions over Taiwan and other security matters, which were obscured by the deepening economic integration of the two states at the time. In the following interview we discuss these topics, as well as why Gilbert thinks its appropriate to describe Vladimir Putin's regime as neofascist, why recognising NATO enlargement as being a vector for Russian nationalism does not in any way justify the invasion of Ukraine, and we also talked about what Gilbert thinks a more just international order might look like.

The War in Ukraine Drags On: A Conversation with a Russian and a Ukrainian Socialist A year and a half after Russia's all-out invasion of Ukraine, the war goes on and unfortunately the war is still not well understood by much of the left outside of those countries. Hanna Perekhoda and Ilya Matveev discuss Putin's war, some common political ideas about it on the Western left, the situation in Ukraine and Russia today, and what people on the left elsewhere can do to help socialists in Ukraine and Russia. Hanna and Perekhoda and Ilya Matveev will be participating in a speakers' tour in several US cities in September 2023 sponsored by the Ukraine Solidarity Network. For details see https://linktr.ee/ukrainesolidaritynetwork For a list of groups in Ukraine to support, see: https://www.midnightsunmag.ca/support-the-left-in-ukraine-and solidarity-with-the-peoples-of-turkey-kurdistan-and-syria/ Posle, a site of the Russian anti-war left with some content in English: https://posle.media/language/en/about/ On the arrest of Russian socialist Boris Kagarlitsky: https://newpol.org/im-a-ukrainian-leftist-this-is-why-i-support-boris-kagarlitsky/ A July 2023 article by Gilbert Achcar worth reading: https://newpol.org/ukraine-and-the-abstraction-of-violence-my-reply-to-tom-dale/

Headlines for June 15, 2023; Sudan’s Healthcare on Brink Amid Fighting & Targeted Attacks on Medical Workers, Hospitals Worldwide; “The New Cold War: The United States, Russia, and China”: Gilbert Achcar on Ukraine War & More; “A Carbon Bomb”: Kumi Naidoo on Fight to Stop Construction of EACOP, Proposed Pipeline in East Africa

Headlines for June 15, 2023; Sudan’s Healthcare on Brink Amid Fighting & Targeted Attacks on Medical Workers, Hospitals Worldwide; “The New Cold War: The United States, Russia, and China”: Gilbert Achcar on Ukraine War & More; “A Carbon Bomb”: Kumi Naidoo on Fight to Stop Construction of EACOP, Proposed Pipeline in East Africa

Join leading international relations experts Gilbert Achcar and Ilya Budraitskis to discuss Achcar's latest book, The New Cold War. Join leading international relations experts Gilbert Achcar and Ilya Budraitskis as the discuss Achcar's latest book The New Cold War: The United States, Russia, and China from Kosovo to Ukraine. With the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, warnings of a new Cold War proliferated. In fact, the New Cold War has been ongoing since the late 1990s. Racing to solidify its position as the last remaining superpower, the US alienated Russia and China, pushing them closer and rebooting the ‘old' Cold War with disastrous implications. Vladimir Putin's consequent rise and imperialist reinvention, along with Xi Jinping's own ascendancy and increasingly autocratic tendencies, would culminate, respectively, in the invasion of Ukraine and mounting tensions over Taiwan and trade. Was all this inevitable? What comes after Ukraine, and what might the contours of a more peaceful world look like? These questions and others will be discussed in the launch of The New Cold War. Buy the book from Haymarket: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2053-the-new-cold-war ———————————————————————————————————————————————— Gilbert Achcar is Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at SOAS, University of London. His many books include: The Clash of Barbarisms: The Making of the New World Disorder (2002, 2006); Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy, co-authored with Noam Chomsky (2007, 2008); The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives (2010); Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism (2013); The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising (2013, 2022); and Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising (2016). Ilya Budraitskis is a political and social theorist, previously based in Moscow. Since 2023 he has been a visiting scholar at Berkeley UC. He writes regularly for openDemocracy, Republic.ru, Colta.ru and other outlets. Budraitskis's essay collection Dissidents among Dissidents. Ideology, politics and The Left in Post-Soviet Russia was published by Verso in 2022. Budraitskis is a member of editorial board of Moscow Art Magazine, Posle.media and Executive committee of Moscow Sakharov Center. Watch the live event recording: https://youtube.com/live/2qf-u9f83II Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

This week we hear from Gilbert Achcar, Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at SOAS, who discusses his latest book, The New Cold War: The US, Russia and China from Kosovo to Ukraine, published by Saqi in February 2023. In the book, Gilbert argues that, despite the rhetoric of a new Cold War following Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year, there has, in fact, been an ongoing New Cold War since the late 1990s.

Featuring Jane McAlevey on how to organize mass numbers of new workers into unions that wage mass strikes to fight employers and revive the labor movement.Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDigDan's 2019 interview with McAlevey thedigradio.com/podcast/strike-with-jane-mcaleveyBuy Set Fear on Fire by LASTESIS versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2853-set-fear-on-fireBuy The New Cold War by Gilbert Achcar haymarketbooks.org/books/2007-the-new-cold-war Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Featuring Jane McAlevey on how to organize mass numbers of new workers into unions that wage mass strikes to fight employers and revive the labor movement. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Dan's 2019 interview with McAlevey thedigradio.com/podcast/strike-with-jane-mcalevey Buy Set Fear on Fire by LASTESIS versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2853-set-fear-on-fire Buy The New Cold War by Gilbert Achcar haymarketbooks.org/books/2007-the-new-cold-war

Featuring Edo Konrad and Joshua Leifer on how Zionism's long-running contradictions led to the current political crisis in Israel.Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDigCheck out +972 Magazine at 972mag.comSubscribe to Jewish Currents' Israel/Palestine newsletter at jewishcurrents.org/newsletterBuy The New Cold War: The United States, Russia, and China from Kosovo to Ukraine by Gilbert Achcar haymarketbooks.org/books/2007-the-new-cold-war Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Featuring Edo Konrad and Joshua Leifer on how Zionism's long-running contradictions led to the current political crisis in Israel. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out +972 Magazine at 972mag.com Subscribe to Jewish Currents' Israel/Palestine newsletter at jewishcurrents.org/newsletter Buy The New Cold War: The United States, Russia, and China from Kosovo to Ukraine by Gilbert Achcar haymarketbooks.org/books/2007-the-new-cold-war

Thế giới vẫn sôi sục ngay trong ngày đầu năm mới 2023. Chiến sự tại Ukraina vẫn diễn ra ác liệt mà không chút hy vọng đàm phán hòa bình. Tại châu Á, eo biển Đài Loan, một thùng thuốc súng khác, cũng chực chờ bùng nổ trước nguy cơ xảy ra đối đầu quân sự Mỹ - Trung. Ukraina bắt đầu năm mới 2023 giống như khi kết thúc năm cũ 2022 : Người dân Ukraina hứng chịu những làn mưa tên lửa trong những ngày giao thừa và đầu năm mới. Cuộc chiến xâm lược Ukraina do Nga tiến hành bắt đầu từ tháng 2/2022 nay đã bước sang tháng thứ 11, làm cho gần 200 ngàn người thiệt mạng và bị thương ở cả hai phía. Những lời kêu gọi đàm phán cho một lệnh hưu chiến mỗi lúc một nhiều, mà vẫn không hạ được mức độ khốc liệt của cuộc xung đột. Một mặt, Nga gặp khó khăn trên chiến trường, giờ đổi chiến thuật, cho oanh kích ồ ạt bằng drone hay tên lửa hành trình, bắn phá các cơ sở năng lượng của Ukraina. Mặt khác, Washington vẫn tiếp tục cung cấp vũ khí ngày càng tinh vi hơn cho Kiev, dù cũng tỏ ra cảnh giác, tránh leo thang để đi đến đối đầu trực diện với Matxcơva. Ukraina : Chiến tranh kéo dài đến khi nào ? Trong hoàn cảnh này, giới quan sát đánh giá ít có hy vọng cho các cuộc đàm phán hòa bình trong năm nay. Nguyệt san Le Monde Diplomatique (số ra tháng Giêng năm 2023) bi quan nhận định : « Cuộc xung đột giờ đã ác liệt đến mức khó thể đảo ngược tình thế. Cả điện Kremlin, hiện đang đánh cược cho sự sống còn của chế độ, lẫn Kiev đang hứng chịu sự tàn phá nặng nề, đều không muốn quay trở lại bàn đàm phán. Lập trường của hai bên tham chiến giờ đã trở nên cứng rắn. » Đối với học giả về quan hệ quốc tế Gilbert Achcar, trường Nghiên cứu Phương Đông và Châu Phi, đại học Luân Đôn, những tuyên bố kêu gọi đó có ý nghĩa tuyên truyền nhiều hơn, mang tính tối hậu thư hơn là thực tâm muốn đàm phán. Trên kênh truyền hình độc lập Democracy Now của Mỹ, ông giải thích : « Về phía Nga, ông Vladimir Putin từ hồi tháng 9/2022, đã kêu gọi ngưng bắn và đề nghị phía Ukraina trở lại bàn đàm phán. Đó chỉ là những lời lẽ của ông ấy. Nhưng nếu quý vị đọc rõ những gì Putin đang nói, thì đồng thời ông ấy cũng nói rằng không đời nào có chuyện thảo luận về bốn tỉnh của Ukraina mà ông ấy cho là đã chính thức sáp nhập vào Nga. Nếu điều này bị loại ra khỏi bất kỳ cuộc đàm phán nào, thì làm thế nào các cuộc đàm phán đó, thậm chí lệnh ngừng bắn đi đến cuộc đàm phán lại có thể xảy ra ? Về phía Ukraina, họ có thể linh hoạt hơn nhưng đôi khi quý vị thấy có những tuyên bố như kiểu gần đây của ngoại trưởng Ukraina rằng điều kiện để đàm phán là Vladimir Putin và các lãnh đạo khác của Nga phải bị đưa ra trước tòa án quốc tế. Tất nhiên, một lần nữa, điều đó đặt ra tiêu chuẩn quá cao để cho bất kỳ một cuộc đàm phán nào có thể diễn ra. » Đâu là lối thoát cho cuộc chiến tại Ukraina, cuộc chiến tàn khốc nhất kể từ sau Đệ Nhị Thế Chiến ? Trả lời cho câu hỏi này, nhiều nhà quan sát lấy làm tiếc về sự vắng bóng vai trò của Liên Hiệp Quốc, mà theo ông Gilbert Achcar, đây có thể là cách duy nhất để thay đổi tình hình và chấm dứt chiến tranh. « Cách duy nhất để kết thúc cuộc chiến này là Liên Hiệp Quốc phải nhập cuộc. Điều đó có nghĩa là có sự tham dự của Trung Quốc. Nhưng tôi thấy rằng cả Hoa Kỳ và Trung Quốc đều không háo hức để Liên Hiệp Quốc giải quyết vấn đề này. Ý tôi là, một nền hòa bình lâu dài và công bằng, chỉ có thể khi đó là một nền hòa bình không có sự thôn tính và một nền hòa bình dựa trên quyền tự quyết của người dân tại những vùng lãnh thổ có tranh chấp. Các vấn đề phải được giải quyết một cách hòa bình, dân chủ, không bằng vũ lực. Đây cũng chính là một trong số các nguyên tắc chính, nền tảng cơ bản của Hiến Chương Liên Hiệp Quốc. Điều đó có nghĩa là giải pháp cho các vấn đề nên thông qua Liên Hiệp Quốc, các cuộc đàm phán cũng nên thông qua Liên Hiệp Quốc và tôn trọng các nguyên tắc trong Hiến Chương Liên Hiệp Quốc. Chỉ có điều tôi không thấy chính quyền Biden thực sự tích cực trong việc cố gắng đạt được điều đó. Bởi vì, cách làm này còn đòi hỏi có sự hợp tác của Trung Quốc. Mà chính quyền Biden thì cực kỳ hiếu chiến và thù địch với Trung Quốc. Một lập trường vốn dĩ đã bắt đầu từ thời ông Donald Trump. Và thái độ này là hoàn toàn phản tác dụng cho triển vọng hòa bình, bởi Trung Quốc  rõ ràng nắm giữ một vị trí quan trọng, là đồng minh quan trọng duy nhất mà Matxcơva có thể xem xét đến và do đó,Trung Quốc ảnh hưởng rất nhiều đến bất kỳ quyết định nào mà Nga đưa ra. » Đài Loan : Thùng thuốc súng chực chờ phát nổ Một điểm nóng khác trên thế giới mà nguy cơ bùng nổ cũng đã chực chờ từ nhiều năm qua : Đài Loan. Nhật báo Kinh tế Les Echos của Pháp, khi điểm ra 12 sự kiện có thể đánh dấu năm 2023, ghi nhận trong những ngày cuối năm 2022, số chiến đấu cơ Trung Quốc xâm nhập vùng nhận diện phòng không của Đài Loan đã tăng lên mức kỷ lục. Tình hình này buộc chính phủ Đài Bắc thông báo kéo dài thời hạn nghĩa vụ quân sự từ 4 lên 12 tháng. Ý đồ của Tập Cận Bình gia tăng áp lực trong năm 2023 sẽ còn mạnh mẽ hơn vào lúc cuộc bầu cử tổng thống Đài Loan tháng 01/2024 đang đến gần. Giống như đối với Ukraina, Đài Loan là một trong số hiếm hoi hồ sơ có được sự đồng thuận mạnh mẽ của lưỡng đảng Quốc Hội Mỹ rằng cần phải duy trì việc cung cấp vũ khí cho Đài Loan để nâng cao hơn nữa khả năng tự vệ của hòn đảo. Đương nhiên, quyết định này của Mỹ đã khiến Trung Quốc tức giận, cho rằng Washington đã phá vỡ những thỏa thuận được thực hiện từ nhiều thập niên qua. Việc cựu chủ tịch Hạ Viện Mỹ Nancy Pelosi thăm Đài Bắc hồi tháng 8/2022 khiến Bắc Kinh nổi dóa, tổ chức một cuộc tập trận hải không quân quy mô lớn chưa từng có. Rồi tổng thống Mỹ Joe Biden nhiều lần khẳng định sẽ bảo vệ quân sự Đài Loan làm cho Trung Quốc nghĩ rằng Hoa Kỳ không còn tôn trọng chính sách « Một nước Trung Hoa duy nhất », như lời đả kích mạnh mẽ từ vị đại tá Trung Quốc đã về hưu Châu Bá, trên kênh truyền hình quốc tế Deutsche Welle của Đức : « Đây là điều mà chúng tôi tin rằng họ đang làm : Họ đang bác bỏ khái niệm Một Nước Trung Quốc duy nhất, cho dù Hoa Kỳ vẫn nói về điều này, nhưng bản chất đang bị thay đổi với nhiều kiểu thăm viếng như vậy hơn, với nhiều hợp đồng bán vũ khí cho Đài Loan, với việc ông Joe Biden bốn lần nói rằng Hoa Kỳ sẽ bảo vệ Đài Loan bằng quân sự. Chúng tôi e rằng bản chất sự việc đang thay đổi. » Theo quan điểm của chuyên gia Meia Nouwens, Viện Nghiên Cứu Chiến Lược Quốc Tế (IISS), chính sự phát triển mạnh mẽ của quân đội Trung Quốc mới là yếu tố thay đổi cuộc chơi. Cũng trên kênh truyền hình Deutsche Welle, bà Nouwens giải thích : « Quân đội Giải phóng Nhân dân vào lúc này đang trải qua một quá trình cải cách và hiện đại hóa quy mô lớn dưới sự lãnh đạo và chỉ đạo của chủ tịch Tập Cận Bình, qua việc bổ sung nhiều hơn các khả năng tiên tiến, hiện đại hơn vào kho vũ khí cho không quân, hải quân, bộ binh và tất nhiên cả trong các lĩnh vực không gian và mạng. » Về phần mình, Kevin Rudd, cựu thủ tướng Úc và cũng là một chuyên gia về Trung Quốc, cho rằng khi quan sát sự việc từ hai phía, có thể thấy rằng cả Washington và Bắc Kinh đang đồng thời cắt đứt quan niệm truyền thống về Chính Sách Một Nước Trung Quốc. « Khi Mỹ bắt đầu xoay quanh câu hỏi về cấp độ chính thức trong mối quan hệ giữa chính quyền Đài Loan và chính quyền Hoa Kỳ, thì Trung Quốc sẽ lập luận rằng Washington bắt đầu cắt từng chút một toàn bộ khái niệm "một nước Trung Quốc" để trở thành "hai nước Trung Hoa". Điều đó được thúc đẩy bởi sự xói mòn học thuyết truyền thống của Mỹ chuyển từ "mơ hồ chiến lược" thành "rõ ràng chiến lược", đó là điểm mà tổng thống Biden đã cho thấy gần đây nhất. Ở phía bên kia, Mỹ cũng nói rằng Trung Quốc luôn biết rõ là Washington sẽ phản đối mọi hành động đe dọa sử dụng vũ lực. Và việc triển khai các khí tài quân sự sau chuyến thăm của Pelosi đã diễn ra sau một loạt các nỗ lực của Trung Quốc trong những năm gần đây nhằm tăng cường sức mạnh quân sự ở trong nước và xung quanh Đài Loan. Vì vậy, Mỹ sẽ lập luận rằng Trung Quốc cũng đang cắt khúc Chính sách Một nước Trung Quốc để bắt đầu sử dụng nhiều hơn nữa các hoạt động quân sự chuẩn bị chiến dịch đánh chiếm đảo. » Đương nhiên, những tính toán này của Mỹ và Trung Quốc khiến các nước trong khu vực lo ngại. Chưa có lúc nào nguy cơ va chạm quân sự giữa hai cường quốc hàng đầu thế giới lại cao như lúc này. Michèle Flournoy, chuyên gia hàng đầu về an ninh quốc phòng, Trung Tâm An Ninh Mới Của Mỹ tại Washington, trên Deutsch Well cảnh báo :   « Chúng ta không có biện pháp giảm thiểu rủi ro nào như chúng ta đã từng có ngay cả khi ở đỉnh điểm của Chiến Tranh Lạnh với Liên Xô. Quả thật, không có đường dây nóng nào mà chúng tôi tin sẽ có người nhấc máy ở đầu dây bên kia. Không có giao thức giảm thiểu rủi ro nào mà người ta có thể sử dụng trong một cuộc khủng hoảng để giảm leo thang nếu như có một số tính toán sai lầm ».

Une question à l'heure de l'invasion russe en Ukraine et du face-à-face entre Moscou et l'Occident : assiste-t-on à une guerre de civilisations ? Une nouvelle guerre froide ? (Rediffusion) Nous posons la question à nos invités :  - Gilbert Achcar, chercheur franco-libanais et écrivain  - Catherine Hass, anthropologue, autrice d' «Aujourd'hui la guerre» chez Fayard  - Marc Hecker, directeur de la recherche et de la valorisation à l'Ifri, rédacteur en chef de la revue Politique étrangère. Auteur avec Elie Tenenbaum : «La guerre de 20 ans, djihadisme et contre-terrorisme au XXIè s.» chez Robert Laffont  - André Markowicz, auteur et traducteur - «Et si l'Ukraine libérait la Russie», aux éditions du Seuil. 

Anti-government protests in Iran pass their 100th day; Longtime antiwar activist and international relations scholar Gilbert Achcar on why peace talks to end the war in Ukraine are unlikely.

Anti-government protests in Iran pass their 100th day; Longtime antiwar activist and international relations scholar Gilbert Achcar on why peace talks to end the war in Ukraine are unlikely.

Une question à l'heure de l'invasion russe en Ukraine et du face-à-face entre Moscou et l'Occident : assiste-t-on à une guerre de civilisations ? Une nouvelle guerre froide ? Nous posons la question à nos invités :  - Gilbert Achcar, chercheur franco-libanais et écrivain  - Catherine Hass, anthropologue, autrice d' «Aujourd'hui la guerre» chez Fayard  - Marc Hecker, directeur de la recherche et de la valorisation à l'Ifri, rédacteur en chef de la revue Politique étrangère. Auteur avec Elie Tenenbaum : «La guerre de 20 ans, djihadisme et contre-terrorisme au XXIè s.» chez Robert Laffont  - André Markowicz, auteur et traducteur - «Et si l'Ukraine libérait la Russie», aux éditions du Seuil. 

Even today the way of how we think about the Holocaust is a contentious terrain. The fight over the narratives has a special place in the relation between Palestine and shows, for example, when Israel regularly accuses Palestinians of relativizing the Holocaust or spreading a new form of anti-Semitism. On Tuesday Gilbert Achcar joins us to talk about the Arab-Israeli war of propaganda surrounding the Holocaust.

Gilbert Achcar spoke about his work as an academic and his recent book, "The People Want."Gilbert Achcar is a Lebanese academic and writer. He is a Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. His research interests cover the Near East and North Africa, foreign policy of the United States, Globalization, Islam, and Islamic fundamentalism. He is also a Fellow at the International Institute for Research and Education. Achcar obtained degrees in philosophy and social sciences at the Lebanese University and was a member of the Revolutionary Communist Group. He took up residence in France in 1983, and completed his doctorate in social history and international relations at the University of Paris VIII, where, in 1991, he began teaching political science, sociology and international relations. In 2003 he took up a research position at the Marc Bloch Centre in Berlin, which he maintained until he assumed a professorship at SOAS. His works include The Arabs and the Holocaust, Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism, The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising, and many more. Created & hosted by Mikey Muhanna, afikra Edited by: Ramzi RammanTheme music by: Tarek Yamani https://www.instagram.com/tarek_yamani/About the afikra Conversations:Our long-form interview series features academics, arts, ‎and media experts who are helping document and/or shape the history and culture of the Arab world through their ‎work. Our hope is that by having the guest share their expertise and story, the community still walks away with newfound curiosity - and maybe some good recommendations about new nerdy rabbit holes to dive into headfirst. ‎Following the interview, there is a moderated town-hall-style Q&A with questions coming from the live virtual audience ‎on Zoom.‎ Join the live audience: https://www.afikra.com/rsvp   FollowYoutube - Instagram (@afikra_) - Facebook - Twitter Support www.afikra.com/supportAbout afikra:‎afikra is a movement to convert passive interest in the Arab world to active intellectual curiosity. We aim to collectively reframe the dominant narrative of the region by exploring the histories and cultures of the region- past, present, and future - through conversations driven by curiosity. Read more about us on  afikra.com

Nuestro invitado de hoy es Gilberto Conde, doctor en Estudios de Asia y África por El Colegio de México. Sus líneas de investigación son: Definiciones nacionales cambiantes en las relaciones internacionales en el Medio Oriente y el norte de África. En el libro El pueblo quiere. Una exploración radical de la sublevación árabe, el filósofo e historiador libanés, Gilbert Achcar, analiza la modalidad del capitalismo en el Medio Oriente y cómo se ha bloqueado el desarrollo económico y social, ocasionando desempleo, desigualdad, pobreza y frustración. Su exploración no se limita a la racionalidad económica, ya que profundiza en lo político.

Gilbert Achcar joins Long Reads for a conversation about the second wave of Arab uprisings—and the possibility of a third. Gilbert is professor of development studies at SOAS in London. The second edition of his book The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising has just been published.Read his 2019 article "The Sudanese Revolution Enters a New Phase" here: https://jacobinmag.com/2019/08/sudanese-revolution-fdfc-constitutional-agreement-signedLong Reads is a Jacobin podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine's longform writers. Hosted by Features Editor Daniel Finn. Produced by Conor Gillies, music by Knxwledge. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A crise na Ucrânia coloca o mundo à beira de um desastre, suspenso entre a renovada beligerância russa e a continuada arrogância norte-americana defende Gilbert Achcar neste artigo lido por Carlos Carujo.

Join a Gilbert Achcar, Carolyn Eichner, Phil Gasper, and Helen Scott to discuss the enduring legacy of the great Paris Commune and its lessons for today. In March 1871, in the aftermath of France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, ordinary Parisians rose up and took control of their city for themselves. The Paris Commune only lasted for a little over two months, but during that time the Communards enacted a remarkable number of far-reaching democratic measures. The Commune was eventually drowned in blood by the old regime, but it had an enormous impact on the international socialist and working-class movement. Marx wrote The Civil War in France praising the Commune's achievements, which remained inspirational for generations of later socialists. On its 150th anniversary, join us for a discussion of the Commune's accomplishments and weaknesses, and the lessons it holds for the radical left today. Get a copy of Revolutions here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1476-revolutions ---------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Gilbert Achcar teaches at SOAS, University of London. He is the author of many books and a contributor to many publications. He wrote the chapter on the Paris Commune in Revolutions (Haymarket, 2020). Carolyn J. Eichner is a feminist historian at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and author of the forthcoming The Paris Commune: A Brief History (Rutgers, 2021) and Feminism's Empire (Cornell, 2022). Her book Surmounting the Barricades: Women in the Paris Commune (Indiana, 2004) has been translated as Franchir les barricades: les femmes dans la Commune de Paris (Editions de la Sorbonne, 2020). Phil Gasper is co-editor of New Politics and a member of the Tempest Collective. He is the editor of an annotated edition of The Communist Manifesto (Haymarket, 2005) and of Imperialism and War: Classic Writings by V.I. Lenin and Nikolai Bukharin (Haymarket, 2017). ---------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: Tempest Collective, Haymarket Books, New Politics, and the Havens Wright Center for Social Justice (UW-Madison). Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/jd3wYEZPLEA Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

O professor francês foi assassinado há meio ano. Os debates e as ondas de choque ainda abalam a sociedade francesa. Gilbert Achcar dá-nos o seu ponto de vista sobre o tema num artigo lido por Carlos Carujo.

Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton are joined by Aaron Maté to discuss the dirty war on Syria, how murderous US/EU sanctions have destroyed the country's economy and led to many civilian deaths, and Washington's military occupation of its oil/wheat-rich territory. We respond to a ridiculous open letter that smears the anti-war movement, signed by regime-change operatives and fake "leftist" imperialists like Gilbert Achcar. -- Link to Ben's The Grayzone article "Elite UK military unit secretly trained by leftist regime-change advocate Gilbert Achcar and other academics": thegrayzone.com/2019/10/03/leftist-regime-change-activist-gilbert-achcar-academics-train-uk-military

Join us for a virtual teach-in on the resurgent revolutionary wave sweeping the Middle East and North Africa. ———————————————————— The Syrian regime has consolidated its power in the past few years with the assistance of its allies, Russia and Iran. However, the conditions that led to the uprisings are all still present, especially dictatorship and social justice. These conditions have actually only gotten worse. The recent anti-regime demonstrations provoked by the socio-economic crisis in the Sweida and Daraa provinces under regime control indicate how intolerable the situation has become.The Assad regime and other regimes in the region believe that they can maintain their despotic rules by the continuous use of massive violence against their populations. This is doomed to fail, and new explosions of popular protest will inevitably happen, just like those of 2019 in Sudan, Algeria, Iraq and Lebanon, which have been described as a “Second Arab Spring”. The panel participants will analyze the current situation in Syria and Sudan, and the overall context of the uprisings as well as the regional prospects. ———————————————————— Sara Abbas is a Sudanese Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the Freie Unversität Berlin. Her doctoral research focuses on the discourses and practices of women members of the Islamist Movement and al- Bashir's formerly ruling party in Sudan. Most recently, she has been researching Sudan's resistance committees which emerged out of the 2018 revolution. She is a member of SudanUprising Germany and the Alliance of Middle Eastern and North African Socialists. Gilbert Achcar is a Lebanese academic, writer, and socialist. He is Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at SOAS, University of London. He has written extensively on politics and development economics, as well as social change and social theory. His publications include The Clash of Barbarisms: September 11 and the Making of the New World Disorder (2002), published in 15 languages; Perilous Power: The Middle East and US Foreign Policy (2008), with Noam Chomsky; the critically acclaimed The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli-War of Narratives (2010); The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising (2013); and Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprisings (2016). Joseph Daher is a Swiss-Syrian socialist activist, academic, and founder of the blog Syria Freedom Forever. He is part of the Wartime and Post-Conflict in Syria project, at the European University Institute, Florence (Italy) and works at the University of Lausanne. He is the author of "Hezbollah: Political Economy of the Party of God" (2016, Pluto Press) and "Syria after the Uprisings, the Political Economy of State Resilience" (Pluto Press and Haymarket 2019). He is also a member of the Alliance of Middle Eastern and North African Socialists. ———————————————————— Order a copy of Joseph Daher's book, Syria After the Uprisings here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1292-syria-after-the-uprisings Order a copy of Gilbert Achcar's book, Morbid Symptoms here: https://bookshop.org/a/1039/9781503600317 Order a copy of Burning Country: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745337821/burning-country/ For further reading on this topic, check out Haymarket Books' list of books for resisting empire: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/99-haymarket-books-for-resisting-empire ———————————————————— Co-sponsored by Haymarket Books: https://www.haymarketbooks.org Pluto Press: https://www.plutobooks.com Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/GEMoCj0PnfQ Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

A 17 de dezembro de 2010, um jovem vendedor ambulante imolou-se no centro da Tunísia causando uma tempestade política a que chamaria “a primavera árabe”. Dez anos depois, Gilbert Achcar analisa os avanços e recuos do processo num artigo lido por Carlos Carujo.

It's been six weeks since a devastating explosion rocked the port of Beirut, killing hundreds and leaving widespread destruction throughout the city.  Caused by the negligent storage of nearly 3000 tons of ammonium nitrate in a portside warehouse, the disaster has dramatically exposed the criminal nature of the Lebanese ruling class. Alex Whisson spoke to Gilbert Achcar, Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

Suzi talks to Gilbert Achcar about the horrific explosion, on August 4, in his native Lebanon. Nearly 3000 tons of ammonium nitrate that had been sitting in the port of the City for seven years ignited, leaving hundreds dead, thousands injured, and hundreds of thousands homeless. Gilbert Achcar outlines Lebanon’s decades long history of corrupt neoliberal rule, which he characterizes as marked by exploitation, criminal neglect, sectarian divisions, and utter disregard for the population. This catastrophic explosion comes on the heels of economic collapse -- in the midst of a pandemic that derailed one of the largest and broadest protest movements from 2019, now in the streets again demanding an end to the regime in power. We spoke to Gilbert just before the Prime Minister and Cabinet resigned.

Un épisode qui va aux racines politiques, économiques et sociales des Printemps arabes, à partir de Le peuple veut. Une exploration radicale du soulèvement arabe (Actes Sud, 2013) et de Symptômes morbides. La rechute du soulèvement arabe (Actes Sud, 2017) – en compagnie de l’auteur, Gilbert Achcar, professeur en études de développement à l’Université de Londres – SOAS. L’épisode comporte : Une genèse coloniale et postcoloniale des États patrimoniaux du monde arabophone (3’) ; Une discussion des causes et des conséquences de l’échec des modernisations de rattrapage industrielles des « socialismes arabes » des années 1960-70 (10’) ; Une typologie des États patrimoniaux et néo-patrimoniaux et des processus de patrimonialisation (17’) ; Une analyse des liens, à l’origine des soulèvements arabes, entre précarité, sous-développement capitaliste et régimes patrimoniaux et néo-patrimoniaux (25’) ; Une histoire du tournant libéral (intifah) des années 1970-90 et de ses conséquences socio-économiques, conduisant au déclenchement en 2011 des premiers « Printemps arabes » (31’) ; Une analyse des « Printemps arabes » comme un processus révolutionnaire de longue durée destiné à perdurer en l’absence de transformations radicales (38’)

Suzi talks to Pablo Abufom and Gilbert Achcar about the ongoing massive protest movements in Chile and Lebanon, where for more than two weeks the mobilization and demonstrations have spread spectacularly in breadth and depth. In Chile 1.2 million took to the streets on Oct 25 and in Lebanon protestors formed a human chain from one end of the country to another, in both places protesting the inequity of the status quo, a generalized protest against neoliberalism, and an unjust order. Protestors have demanded the resignation of their governments in both Chile and Lebanon, and Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri has now resigned. Lebanon’s October uprising of dignity has shaken its long-resilient sectarian political system to its foundations.

Assistant Director of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at Northwestern University, interviews author Gilbert Achcar on the subject of the continuing consequences of the Arab Spring and Achcar's most recent book, Morbid Symptoms. Recorded July 10, 2018 at After-Words Books in Chicago. Courtesy of Midwest Socialist and Northwestern University.

DSA member Danny Postel, assistant director of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at Northwestern University, interviews author Gilbert Achcar on the subject of the continuing consequences of the Arab Spring and Achcar's most recent book, Morbid Symptoms. Recorded July 10, 2018 at After-Words Books in Chicago.

Intervenções de Luís Fazenda e Gilbert Achcar no encontro Karl Marx: 200 anos.

In his Prison Notebooks of 1930, the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci wrote, "The 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." In his new book, Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising, published by Saqi Books, Gilbert Achcar, Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London, argues we are witnessing precisely such an interregnum unfold in the Arab world. Will the counter-revolution triumph, or are we likely to see successive waves of revolutionary ferment continue to break out across the region? Only time will tell. Indymedia's Alex Whisson began by asking Professor Achcar to outline the key events in the northern summer of 2013 that consolidated the counter-revolution - the Iranian-backed al-Qusayr offensive by the Assad regime in Syria, and the July 3rd military coup d'etat in Egypt - events which contributed to the horrific landscape of multiple wars and massacres that characterise the Middle East today, five years on from the Arab Spring.

The Arab Revolutions: Five Years On The Arduous Road of Democratization and Future Prospects

Speaker: Gilbert Achcar, SOAS Chair: John Chalcraft, LSE The euphoria that welcomed the Arab uprising in its initial stage tended to turn into gloom in later years. Away from impressionistic reactions, Gilbert Achcar assesses and discusses the latest developments in the Arab-speaking region on the occasion of the publication of his new book, 'The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising'. Recorded on 27 January 2014.

Gilbert Achcar examines social-economic and political dynamics of the 2011 Arab Spring and evaluates regional prospects for the ongoing revolutionary processes in the Middle East and Northern Africa. (October 19, 2011)

In this month’s podcast for Le Monde diplomatique, George Miller talks to Gilbert Achcar of the School of Oriental and African Studies in London about his article in the latest issue of the paper on the Muslim Brotherhood and the role they might play in Egypt’s “orderly transition” to a new order. To listen to the podcast, click here.

After a gap of a couple of months, the Le Monde diplomatique podcast is back. This month I talk to Gilbert Achcar, a Lebanese academic who is professor of development studies and international relations at SOAS in London and author most recently of The Arabs and the Holocaust: the Arab-Israeli War of Narratives, published this month. His subject in the article – and in this podcast – is Israel’s propaganda war with the Palestinians and the Arab world in general, and the intensification it has undergone in recent years. In the interview we talk about the propaganda use to which the “abject” wartime behaviour of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem has been put by Israel and how Holocaust denial in the Arab world differs from that in the West. To listen to the podcast, click here.