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The Arab Spring uprisings comprise an integral part of a massive « second awakening » of the Global South. In his latest book, Samir Amin examines the complex interplay of nations regarding the Arab Spring and its continuing, turbulent seasons. Amin sees the United...
Capitalism is going senile. Its ambition is now restricted to maintaining the wealth of the wealthy in the world, while the poor, condemned to remain out of the loop, are increasingly demonized as the enemy. This is the theme of Samir Amin's major new book, in which the...
Nit ñi, fowukaay la ñu nu jàppe, man ak sama xeet, di nu jàpp, di nu tëj kaso ciy kaaf. Dañunuy jox lekk, di nu jox naan, yaakaar ne noo ngi bég. Xamuñu ni, jot sunu bopp, moo nu gënal bépp kaso bu mu mën di doon, moo xam sax kaso bu ñu defare wurus.
The present book is intended to answer the need thus acknowledged for a presentation of the authentic values of the African cultural heritage in both their diversity and their points in common. Its purpose is to acquaint the general public throughout the world with...
The challenges facing Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco after the departure of the colonists are as great as those surmounted by the native fighters in winning their freedom. They are not military, though, but economic, the basic question being : how really do we become...
Out of early twentieth century Russia came the world's first significant effort to build a modern revolutionary society. According to Marxist economist Samir Amin, the great upheaval that once produced the Soviet Union also produced a movement away from capitalism - a...
The Arab world's encounter with capitalism in the last 100 years has raised basic issues as to the nature of Arab identity. Why did Arab civilisation, which so surpassed feudal Europe, never develop a capitalism of its own? Why did communism fail to find popular roots...
The Arab Economy Today is a detailed account of the present economic situation of the Arab World. Samir Amin presents a wealth of statistical information to show how oil revenues are being spent, which economic sectors are developing, the allocation of skilled labour,...
Is it possible for the Third World to escape from the constraints imposed by the world's economic system? Does not attempting to do so lead inevitably to the stagnation of barrackroom socialism? What room for manoeuvre do Third World states have? Are they condemned to...
This book is being republished after a decade, where Samir Amin analyses the role and future of Maoism in China and the implications of its success or failure for the entire Third World. In the frist part, Amin outlines three models of accumulation-socialist,...
Renowned political economist Samir Amin, engaged in a unique lifelong effort both to narrate and affect the human condition on a global scale, brings his analysis up to the present -the world of 2013. The key events of our times- financial crisis, the emerging nations,...
This book brings together various contributions I have written for the elaboration of a global history. They have been published in French and English in different periodicals and on different dates, some of them a while ago.1 Their collection into one volume highlights...
Capitalism is a world system. Its victims can effectively face its challenges only if they are also organized at the global level. However, the unequal development associated with the global spread of capital has always presented serious difficulties for the...
These memoirs were largely written during the 1990s. I did not consider it useful to update the book to take into account later events. The reader may find such considerations in my recent writings.
Only at the end of the nineteenth century did a worldwide civilization begin to take shape. During the first seventy years of the twentieth century, however, which have been marked by a speeding up of the historical process, the division of the world into « developed »...
I begin with a « personal note :I first read Marx whenI was 20 years of age and then reread him every twenty years at moments that corresponded to major changes in the course of history. In 1950, hidden behind the East-West conflict, was taking shape the first Southern...
We all live on a planet whose destiny we collectively determine, or so we are told. And it is undeniable that the globalization which began five centuries ago with the European conquest of the Americas has passed into a new stage during the past forty years, as a...
The title chosen for the French edition of this book, Pour un monde multipolaire, should already be indicative of the author's political position. Yes, I do want to see the construction of a multipolar world, and that obviously means the defeat of Washington's...
Samir Amin remains one of the world's most influential thinkers about the changing nature of North-South relations in the development of contemporary capitalism. In this highly prescient book, originally published in 1997, he provides a powerful analysis of the new...
This fascinating history of ideas presents a theoretical overview of each new stage of the past half-century by an outstanding intellectual, grounded in a wide knowledge of economic theory and the practical problems of transforming post-colonial societies. Beginning in...
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