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Author(s): John Rees
ISBN(s): 9780415346757, 0203624661
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 2.27 MB
Year: 2006
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0203624661 
ISBN 13: 9780415346757
Author: John Rees

A unique critique of the new economic and military imperialism of the United States and its allies in the twenty-first century. Inspired by the anti-globalization and anti-war movements, in which the author himself has played a crucial role, this is also an accessible introduction to the huge changes in global politics since the dominance of the American Empire with the end of the Cold War. It covers the key areas of: the nature of the new imperialism the economic power of the US globalization and inequality wars in the post Cold War era oil and empire resisting the new imperialism. This lively, provocative and practical book is an essential guide to the politics of the new world order, which also offers constructive suggestions on how the global resistance movement should develop. It is important new reading for activists, students and all those wanting to understand and challenge the new imperialism.

Imperialism and Resistance 1st Table of contents:

1 Arms and America
The Cold War
The United States and the post-Cold War world
The roots of US strategy
The ascendancy of the neo-conservatives
‘The great opportunity’: 11 September 2001
Conclusion
2 US economic power in the age of globalisation
The scene at the end of the Second World War
US economic power at the end of the Second World War
The US economy during the Cold War, from the long boom to the crisis of the 1970s
The US economy and its competitors in the era of the new imperialism
The economic heart of Europe
Japan: from miracle to crisis
Russia: the dangers of decline
China industrialises
Latin America: losing control of the backyard
The world economy and competition between national economies
Conclusion
3 Oil and empire
Have we reached peak oil production?
Oil in the USA
Challenges to US oil strategy in the Middle East
From the Carter Doctrine to the invasion of Iraq
The drive to diversify
From Arab nationalism to Islamic revival
Conclusion
4 Globalisation and inequality
The state and globalisation
Inequality at the core
Global inequality
Globalisation and ‘rogue states’
The rise of anti-capitalism
Anti-capitalism and modern Labourism
The crisis of Labourism
Conclusion
5 Their democracy and ours
The classical bourgeois revolutions: England, America and France
What changed in 1848?
The bourgeois revolutions from above
Lenin and Trotsky on the socialist revolution and the democratic revolution
The Russian Revolution
The bourgeois revolution after the defeat of the Russian Revolution
The cadre of the middle class revolution
The velvet revolutions of 1989
The velvet restoration
The pattern of revolution after 1989
Results and prospects
Conclusion
6 War and ideology
A war for democracy?
A clash of civilisations?
One empire?
Who resists?
Conclusion
7 Resisting imperialism
The founding principles of the anti-war movement
What does it mean to be anti-imperialist?
The left, ‘rogue states’ and imperialism
Imperialism, anti-imperialism and socialism
Conclusion
Notes
1 Arms and America
2 US economic power in the age of globalisation
3 Oil and empire
4 Globalisation and inequality
5 Their democracy and ours
6 War and ideology
7 Resisting imperialism

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