The Best of Le Monde diplomatique 2012 - Tapa dura

Le Monde diplomatique offers a cool, reasoned, different view of the world's most pressing issues. (New York Review of Books)

Le Monde diplomatique is more than ever indispensable to readers who want to know what governments and consensus media will not tell them. (Eric Hobsbawm)

Le Monde diplomatique is a crusading voice in journalism with especially good foreign coverage. (William Dalrymple)

The essential source for alternative thinking and creative remedies. (Harper's Magazine)

To make sense of what is happening in the world, behind the misinformation, Le Monde diplomatique is essential reading, every month, every year. (John Berger)

Unique, invaluable, reliable, the English edition is wonderful news for those who hope to understand the world or change it for the better. (Noam Chomsky)

Le Monde diplomatique is one of the most highly respected independent periodicals. Published monthly in French and English, it brings together a diverse range of high-calibre writers from across the world.

This book collects the paper's highlights from the last year. The articles have been carefully selected and are arranged around the key themes in our changing world including US imperialism, the financial crisis and the Arab Spring. Among the contributors are Slavoj Žižek, James K Galbraith and Philip S. Golub.

A perfect seasonal gift for anyone interested in global issues, The Best of Le Monde diplomatique goes beyond the news and illuminates the state of our planet.