IntroductionPart I: THE WORLD IN CRISIS1. Permanent crisis - Slavoj Zizek; Europe's wakeup call - Serge Halimi;2. Reform isn't there - James K Galbraith; Iceland's loud No - Robert Wade and Silla SigurgeirsdottirPart II EMPIRE3. US and Empire - Philip S Golub; Obama's missed opportunity - Eric Klinenberg; America's new, angry right - Walter Benn Michaels; US left - Rick FantasiaPart III .AND ACROSS THE WORLD4. UK-US The end of the affair - Jean-Claude Sergeant; Germany - Henry Menudier; Cuba's new socialism - Renaud Lambert; Japan - Martine Bulard; Sudan's south succeeds - Gerard PrunierPart IV IN THE ASCENDANT5. China and India: it's a marriage - Christophe Jaffrelot; Brazil: we've got the power - Lamia Oualulou; Latin America and Iran - Nikolas Kozloff; Turkey - Wendy KristianasenPart V ZONES OF CONFLICT 6. Palestine's own spring - Alain Gresh; Afghanistan/Pakistan - Georges Lefeuvre; Iraq (Kurdistan) - Joost Hiltermann; North Korea - Philippe Pons; Sri Lanka: the time of triumphalism - Cédric GouverneurPart VI REVOLUTION: 'ARAB SPRING'7.

Is this an Arab spring? - Georges Corm; To shoot, or not to shoot? - Salam Kawakabi and Bassma Kodmani; Power of the word in the Syrian intifada - Zenobie; Yemen knows what it doesn't want - Laurent Bonnefoy; Egypt's revolution is only beginning - Alain GreshPart VII THE QUESTION OF ISLAM 8. Arab world and Islam - Hicham al Alaoui; Islamic challenge for Europe - Haenni & Amghar; Iran uncensored - Shervin Ahmadi; Islam in Indonesia - Wendy KristianasenPart VIII CITIES OF THE WORLD 9. Urbanisation - Philip Golub; Detroit - Popelard; Hanoi - Xavier Montheard; Algiers - Popelard.