Kevan Harris: Making and Unmaking of the Greater Middle East What longer-run dynamics underlie present realities in the Middle East? Kevan Harris traces changing state formations and social compacts, from decaying Ottoman and Safavid empires, through colonization and postwar corporatism to infitah, authoritarian retrenchment and military intervention. Eric Hobsbawm: Pierre Bourdieu A warm …
Perry Anderson: Renewals As New Left Review enters its fifth decade, a stock-taking of the journal. Where has it come from, and where is it going? How should the political and cultural scene of the nineties be assessed? A manifesto for the new series of NLR that begins with this issue. R. Taggart Murphy: Japan's Economic Crisis The 20th century’s most dynamic economy has fallen into prolon…