2005: The Empire Reloaded
(Edited by Leo Panitch & Colin Leys)
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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?

Contents:

* Varda Burstyn: The New Imperial Order Foretold - available below
* Stephen Gill: The Contradictions of US Supremacy
* Leo Panitch & Sam Gindin: Finance and American Empire - avaliable below
* Christopher Rude: The Role of Financial Discipline in Imperial Strategy
* Scott Forsyth: Hollywood Reloaded: The Film as Imperial Commodity
* Harriet Friedmann: Feeding the Empire: The Pathologies of Globalized Agriculture
* Vivek Chibber: Reviving the Developmental State? The Myth of the 'National Bourgeoisie'
* Gerard Greenfield: Bandung redux: Anti-Globalization Nationalisms in Southeast Asia
* Yuezhi Zhao: The Media Matrix: China's Integration into Global Capitalism
* Patrick Bond: US Empire and South African Subimperialism
* Doug Stokes: Terror, Capital and Crude: US Counterinsurgency in Colombia
* Paul Cammack: 'Signs of the Times': Capitalism, Competitiveness, and the New Face 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 UK's American Viceroy