This book focuses on US imperialism today in Latin America. It concerns the projection of state power as a means of advancing the economic interests of the US capitalist class and maintaining its hegemony over the world capitalist system.
This book focuses on US imperialism today in Latin America. It concerns the projection of state power as a means of advancing the economic interests of the US capitalist class and maintaining its hegemony over the world capitalist system.
James Petras is Professor Emeritus in Sociology at Binghamton University. He is author of more than 60 books on the global and regional dynamics of US imperialism and capitalism, and the class struggle associated with these dynamics. Henry Veltmeyer is Research Professor in Development Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas in Mexico. He has authored and edited more than 40 books on political economy, social movements, development theory and dynamics of social change in Latin America.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction PART I. RETHINKING IMPERIALISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY 1. Capitalism and Imperialism: notes on an intimate relation 2. Imperialism in an era of extractive capitalism 3. Extractive Imperialism and the post-neoliberal state 4. Imperialist dynamics of agroextractivism PART II. POLICY AND RESISTANCE DYNAMICS OF US IMPERIALISM 5. US Imperialism in Latin America: Then and now 6. US global power in the 21st Century: military or economic imperialism? 7. Fifty years of imperial wars: results and perspectives 8. Networks of empire and realignments of world power 9. Paradoxes of anti-imperialism and class struggle PART III. THE VENEZUELAN PIVOT OF US IMPERIALISM 10. The US and Venezuela: decades of defeats and destabilization 11. The Chávez factor in US-Venezuela relations 12. Obama's imperialist offensive against Venezuela Bibliography Index
Introduction PART I. RETHINKING IMPERIALISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY 1. Capitalism and Imperialism: notes on an intimate relation 2. Imperialism in an era of extractive capitalism 3. Extractive Imperialism and the post-neoliberal state 4. Imperialist dynamics of agroextractivism PART II. POLICY AND RESISTANCE DYNAMICS OF US IMPERIALISM 5. US Imperialism in Latin America: Then and now 6. US global power in the 21st Century: military or economic imperialism? 7. Fifty years of imperial wars: results and perspectives 8. Networks of empire and realignments of world power 9. Paradoxes of anti-imperialism and class struggle PART III. THE VENEZUELAN PIVOT OF US IMPERIALISM 10. The US and Venezuela: decades of defeats and destabilization 11. The Chávez factor in US-Venezuela relations 12. Obama's imperialist offensive against Venezuela Bibliography Index
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