Powers : Selections from New Left Review

Contents: Preface. 1. Force and consent/Perry Anderson. 2. Afflicted powers/Retort. 3. Empire\'s shadow/Susan Willis. 4. New Boom or new bubble?/Robert Brenner. 5. The \'Progressive\' restoration/Gunter Grass and Pierre Bourdieu. 6. What\'s wrong with Europe?/Andrea Boltho. 7. Racking Argentina/David Rock. 8. Forward March of Hindutva halted?/Radhika Desai. 9. A tale of two nationalisms/Wang Chaohua. 10. Palestinian defiance/Eric Hazan and Mustafa Barghouti. 11. Between hammer and anvil/Tariq Ali. 12. A modern major general/Andrew Bacevich. 13. Headscarf hysteria/Emmanuel Terray. 14. Cuba in Africa/Victoria Brittain. Notes on contributors.

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