James Petras

US Imperialism (eBook, ePUB)

The Changing Dynamics of Global Power

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a broader and deeper examination of the dynamics of U. S. Imperialism than previous books. Petras analyzes imperialism not only as economic domination, showing that its impact in the world takes many forms, including cultural, political, and historical.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000576627
• Artikelnr.: 57590020

Autorenporträt

James Petras is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Binghamton University. He is the author of over sixty books on the dynamics of global power and Latin American development. They include Power and Resistance: US Imperialism in Latin America and Imperialism and Capitalism in the 21st Century.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Historical background
1. US global power in the 21st century
2. Fifty years of imperial wars
3. Empire or vampire?
4. A century of wars that were lost
Part II: Structure of empire
5.Foundations of the US empire
6. Networks of empire and realignments of world power
7. Imperial power centers
Part III: Political economy of empire
8. Democracy and world power
9. Imperial wars and domestic epidemics
10. The Pentagon and big oil
11. Soaring profits and soaring social costs
12. Putting an end to the welfare state
13. Imperial recovery and disappearing workers
14. Global empire and internal colonialism
15. Immigration
16. Imperialists' fear and loathing...of being colonized
Part IV: Geopolitics of empire
17. Dis-accumulation on a global scale
18. Washington's two-track policy
19. The United States' Grand Strategy toward China
20. Remapping the Middle East
21. The offensive against Venezuela
22. The sun never sets but the mote remains
23. The emperor's rage
Part V: Ideology of Empire
24. The Harvard school of empire-building
25. Lies and deceptions on the left
26. An Empire Built on Fear at Home and Abroad
27. Imperial road to conquest
28. Mapping Trump's empire: assets and liabilities
29. Latin America in the Time of Trump
30. Trump's Protectionism
31. Trump marches onwards and downwards
32. Trump against the world order
33. A Decalogue of American Empire-Building.