Socialist Register 2004

Socialist Register 2004
THE NEW IMPERIAL CHALLENGE

Edited by Leo Panitch & Colin Leys

"As Rosa Luxemburg observed, it is 'often hard to determine, within the tangle of violence and contests for power, the stern laws of economic process.' This is what Panitch, Gindin, Harvey, Gowan, and their colleagues on the Marxist left are trying to do, along with a few non-Marxist mavericks like Todd*. For this, whatevever our other differences, the rest of us owe them much gratitude" George Scialabba, Dissent, Spring 2004

What does imperialism mean in the new century?

Do we need new concepts to understand it?

Who benefits, who suffers? Where? Why?

Contents:

Leo Panitch & Sam Gindin:
Global Capitalism and American Empire
Aijaz Ahmad: Imperialism of Our Time
David Harvey: The 'New' Imperialism - Accumulation by Dispossession
Greg Albo: The Old and New Economics of Imperialism
Noam Chomsky: Truths and Myths about the Invasion of Iraq
Amy Bartholomew & Jennifer Breakspear: Human Rights as Swords of Empire
Paul Rogers: The US Military Posture - 'A Uniquely Benign Imperialism'?
Michael T. Klare: Blood for Oil - The Bush-Cheney Energy Strategy
John Bellamy Foster & Brett Clark: Ecological Imperialism - The Curse of Capitalism
Tina Wallace: NGO Dilemmas - Trojan Horses for Global Neoliberalism?
John Saul: Globalization, Imperialism, Development - False Binaries and Radical Resolutions
Emad Aysha: The Limits and Contradictions of 'Americanization'
Bob Sutcliffe: Crossing Borders in the New Imperialism

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