Libyan rebels have consolidated their grip on the capital of Tripoli by capturing Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s main compound, but the whereabouts of…
[This interview with Gilbert Achcar was conducted by Yvan Lemaitre, and published in the newspaper of the French New Anticapitalist Party (Nouveau…
In an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal (19 July 2011), Max Boot — the aptly named neoconservative author and military…
The speech delivered by Barack Obama on March 28 sheds interesting light on both the ongoing Western intervention in Libya and the…
Gilbert Achcar interviewed on Left Business Observer…
"The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was indeed a compromise with the imperialists, but it was a compromise which, under the circumstances, had to…
Gilbert Achcar, on BBC Scotland, discusses the complexities of UN resolution 1973 imposed upon Libya.
[Gilbert Achcar grew up in Lebanon, and is currently Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University…
Gilbert Achcar is Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at London's School of Oriental and African Studies. He has written extensively…
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