The People Want

Gilbert Achcar is Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has written extensively on politics and development economics, as well as social change and social theory. His other works include the critically acclaimed The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab - Israeli War of Narratives, The Clash of Barbarisms: The Making of the New World Disorder and, with Noam Chomsky, Perilous Power: The Middle East and US Foreign Policy.

List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction: Uprisings and Revolutions 1. Fettered Development The Facts Poverty, Inequality, Precarity Informal Sector and Unemployment: The Bouazizi Syndrome Youth Underemployment Female Underemployment Graduate Unemployment Fetters on Development 2. The Peculiar Modalities of Capitalism in the Arab region The Problem of Investment Public and Private Investment A Specific Variant of the Capitalist Mode of Production 1. Rentier and Patrimonial States 2. A Politically Determined Capitalism: Nepotism and Risk The Genesis of the Specific Regional Variant of Capitalism: An Overview 3. Regional Political Factors The Oil Curse From "Arab Despotic Exception" to "Democracy Promotion" The Muslim Brothers, Washington and the Saudis The Muslim Brothers, Washington and Qatar Al Jazeera and the Upheaval in the Arab Mediascape 4. Actors and parameters of the revolution Overdetermination and Subjective Conditions The Workers' Movement and Social Struggles New Actors and New Information and Communication Technologies States and Revolutions 5. A provisional balance sheet of the Arab uprising Coups d'Etat and Revolutions Provisional Balance Sheet No. 1: Tunisia Provisional Balance Sheet No. 2: Egypt Provisional Balance Sheet No. 3: Yemen Provisional Balance Sheet No. 4: Bahrain Provisional Balance Sheet No. 5: Libya Provisional Balance Sheet No. 6: Syria 6. Co-opting the uprising Washington and the Muslim Brothers, Take Two Nato, Libya and Syria The "Islamic Tsunami" and the Difference between Khomeini and Morsi Conclusion: the future of the Arab Uprising The Difference between Erdogan and Ghannouchi ... - And the Difference between Erdogan and Morsi Conditions for a Genuine Solution Epilogue Notes References and Sources Index