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304 pp.

November 2003

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THE NEW IMPERIAL CHALLENGE

Socialist Register 2004

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

For forty years, the annual Socialist Register has brought together leading writers on the left to investigate aspects of a common theme. Contributors to this volume consider what imperialism means in the new century by examining the U.S.-led imperialist project currently transforming relations of global power.

The essays in this fortieth volume of the Socialist Register analyze the unique nature of the new U.S. empire and challenge the left to develop a better theory of imperialism and its relation to globalized capitalism. Other essays examine the limits and contradictions of “Americanization” as a dimension of U.S. global power; the facts and myths surrounding U.S. strategic interests in Iraq and the “war on terror”; ecological imperialism, and the significance of international migration in the new imperial order.

Contributors & Contents

Preface

Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin
Global Capitalism and American Empire

Aijaz Ahmad
Imperialism of Our Time

David Harvey
The “New” Imperialism: Accumulation by Dispossession

Gregory Albo
The Old and New Economics of Imperialism

Noam Chomsky
Truths and Myths about the Invasion of Iraq

Amy Bartholomew and Jennifer Breakspear
Human Rights as Swords of Empire

Paul Rogers
The U.S. Military Posture: A Uniquely Benign Imperialism?

Michael T. Klare
Blood for Oil: The Bush-Cheney Energy Strategy

John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark
Ecological Imperialism: The Curse of Capitalism

Tina Wallace
NGO Dilemmas: Trojan Horses for Global Neoliberalism?

John S. Saul
Globalization, Imperialism, Development: False Binaries and Radical Resolutions

Emad El-Din Aysha
The Limits and Contradictions of “Americanization”

Bob Sutcliffe
Crossing Borders in the New Imperialism

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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