Socialist
Register 2005
THE EMPIRE RELOADED
Edited by Leo Panitch & Colin Leys
How does the new American empire work? Who runs it? How stable is it?
What is the new American Empire's impact throughout the world?
What is its influence on gender relations? On the media? On popular culture?
Contents:
- Varda Burstyn: The New Imperial Order Foretold
- Stephen Gill: The Contradictions of US Supremacy
- Leo Panitch & Sam Gindin Finance and American Empire
- Christopher Rude: The Role of Financial Discipline in Imperial Strategy
- Scott Forsyth: Hollywood Reloaded: The Film as Imperial Commodity
- Harriet Friedmann: Feeding the Empire: The Pathologies of Globalized
Agriculture
- Vivek Chibber: Reviving the Developmental State? The Myth of the 'National
Bourgeoisie'
- Gerard Greenfield: Bandung redux: Anti-Globalization Nationalisms in
Southeast Asia
- Yuezhi Zhao: The Media Matrix: China's Integration into Global Capitalism
- Patrick Bond: US Empire and South African Subimperialism
- Doug Stokes: Terror, Capital and Crude: US Counterinsurgency in Colombia
- Paul Cammack: 'Signs of the Times': Capitalism, Competitiveness, and
the New Face of Empire in Latin America
- Boris Kagarlitsky: The Russian State in the Age of American Empire
- John Grahl: The European Union and American Power
- Dorothee Bohle: The EU and Eastern Europe: Failing the Test as a Better
World Power
- Frank Deppe: Habermas' Manifesto for a European Renaissance: A Critique
- Tony Benn & Colin Leys: Bush and Blair: Iraq and the UK's American
Viceroy
Rights: US - Monthly Review Press; Canada - Fernwood Publishing; UK &
Rest of World - Merlin Press
