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ISBN:
1-58367-118-8
$25.00 paper

308 pp.

November 2004

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THE EMPIRE RELOADED

Socialist Register 2005

edited by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys

“I know the Register very well and have found it extremely stimulating, often invaluable.”— 'NOAM CHOMSKY

“The Socialist Register has been the intellectual lodestar for the international left since 1965.”— MIKE DAVIS

Since 1964, the Socialist Register has brought together leading writers on the left to investigate aspects of a common theme. This volume examines the new U.S.-led imperialist project that is currently transforming the global order, its impact on different regions of the world, and on gender, media, and popular culture.

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?

Contributors & Contents

Preface

Stephen Gill
The Contradictions of American Supremacy

Varda Burstyn
The New Imperial Order Foretold

Leo Panitch & Sam Gindin
Finance and American Empire

Chris Rude
The Role of Financial Discipline in Imperial Strategy

Scott Forsyth
Hollywood Reloaded: The Film as Imperial Commodity

Harriet Friedman
Feeding the Empire: Agriculture, Livelihood and the Crisis of the Global Food Regime

Vivek Chibber
Reviving the Developmental State? The Myth of the 'National Bourgeoisie'

Gerard Greenfield
Bandung redux: Imperialism and Anti-Globalization Nationalisms in Southeast Asia

Yuezhi Zhao
China and Global Capitalism: the Cultural Dimension

Patrick Bond
US Empire and South African Subimperialism

Doug Stokes
US Counterinsurgency in Colombia

Paul Cammack
'Signs of the Times': Capitalism, Competitiveness, and the New Faces 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 American Viceroy

About the Editors
LEO PANITCH is professor of political science at York University in Toronto.

COLIN LEYS was for many years professor of political science at Queen's University in Canada.

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