Gilbert Achcar
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Gilbert Achcar (born 1951 in Lebanon) is a Lebanese-French academic, writer, and socialist activist. He lived in Lebanon until moving to France in 1983. He is currently a professor of politics and international relations at the University of Paris VIII. He is a frequent contributor to Le Monde Diplomatique, ZNet, and International Viewpoint. He is most closely associated politically with the reunified Fourth International (USFI) and its French section, the Revolutionary Communist League. Since September 11, he has experienced more popularity as a political commentator among non-Francophone leftist audiences.
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- La nouvelle Guerre froide : le monde après le Kosovo, 1999.
- The Legacy of Ernest Mandel (Le marxisme d'Ernest Mandel), 1999.
- Les Etats-Unis s'en vont'ils en guerre? : [dans la course à la suprématie, des solutions militaires plutôt que diplomatiques, 2000.
- Eastern Cauldron: Islam, Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq in a Marxist Mirror (L'orient incandescent : le Moyen-Orient au miroir marxiste, 2003.
- Clash of Barbarisms: September 11 and the making of the new world disorder (Le choc des barbaries : terrorismes et désordre mondial, 2003.
- Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar, Perilous Power. The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy, Boulder (CO): Paradigm, 2006.
