The Socialist Register 2005
The Empire Reloaded
In the Socialist Register 2005, the contributors examine, through a multitude of lenses, how the American Empire works. They take a comprehensive look at who holds the balance of power and how this affects stability. What is most interesting is the way these essays look at the impact that the new American Empire has had and is having throughout the world. The topics discussed include how the shift in global political relations has influenced gender relations, the media and popular culture.
About the book
This, the 41st annual Socialist Register, is a companion volume to the hugely successful 2004 volume on The New Imperial Challenge. Originally planned as a single volume that soon proved to be too large, they now form a complementary pair. The New Imperial Challenge dealt with the overall nature of the new imperial order–how to understand and explain it, what its strengths and weaknesses are. The Empire Reloaded rounds this out with an analysis of finance, culture and the way the new imperialism is penetrating major regions of the world–Asia Minor, Southeast Asia, India, China, Africa, Latin America, Russia, Europe.
Contents
- The New Imperial Order Foretold-available below (Varda Burstyn)
- The Contradictions of US Supremacy (Stephen Gill)
- Finance and American Empire-avaliable below (Leo Panitch & Sam Gindin)
- The Role of Financial Discipline in Imperial Strategy (Christopher Rude)
- Hollywood Reloaded: The Film as Imperial Commodity (Scott Forsyth)
- Feeding the Empire: The Pathologies of Globalized Agriculture (Harriet Friedmann)
- Reviving the Developmental State? The Myth of the ‘National Bourgeoisie’ (Vivek Chibber)
- Bandung redux: Anti-Globalization Nationalisms in Southeast Asia (Gerard Greenfield)
- The Media Matrix: China’s Integration into Global Capitalism (Yuezhi Zhao)
- US Empire and South African Subimperialism (Patrick Bond)
- Terror, Capital and Crude: US Counterinsurgency in Colombia (Doug Stokes)
- ‘Signs of the Times’: Capitalism, Competitiveness, and the New Face of Empire in Latin America (Paul Cammack)
- The Russian State in the Age of American Empire (Boris Kagarlitsky)
- The European Union and American Power (John Grahl)
- The EU and Eastern Europe: Failing the Test as a Better World Power (Dorothee Bohle)
- Habermas’ Manifesto for a European Renaissance: A Critique (Frank Deppe)
- Bush and Blair: Iraq and the UK’s American Viceroy (Tony Benn & Colin Leys)