Pox Americana : Exposing the American Empire

Contents: Preface. I. U.S. Imperialism Has a Long History: 1. Kipling, the "White Man\'s Burden," and U.S. imperialism/John Bellamy Foster, Harry Magdoff and Robert W. McChesney. 2. Imperial ambition: Noam Chomsky, interviewed by David Barsamian. 3. The grid of history: cowboys and Indians/Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. 4. U.S. weakness and the struggle for hegemony/Immanuel Wallerstein. II. The Geopolitics and Political Economy of U.S. Imperialism: 5. The new geopolitics/Michael Klare. 6. U.S. hegemony today/Peter Gowan. 7. The global minotaur/Joseph Halevi and Yanis Varoufakis. 8. The two wings of the eagle/William K. Tabb. III. Resistance: 9. Confronting the empire/Samir Amin. 10. The parameters of resistance/Amiya Kumar Bagchi. 11. Can U.S. workers embrace anti-imperialism?/Bill Fletcher. 12. Prospects for anti-imperialism: coming to terms with our own bourgeoisie/Sam Gindin. 13. Notes on the Antiwar Movement/Barbara Epstein. 14. Construction of an enemy/Eleanor Stein. 15. Homeland imperialism: fear and resistance/Bernardine Dohrn. 16. The new age of imperialism/John Bellamy Foster. Contributors. Notes. Index.

"This volume examines the nature and prospects of the U.S. Imperial Project currently being given shape by war and occupation in the middle east. Immanuel Wallerstein, Peter Gowan and other discuss the dynamics at work behind the "War on Tourism". Their analyses locate recent developments within a longer historical arc, and set out the central questions for research and debate: is U.S. unilateralism and militarism a sign of the increasing strength of the world\'s only remaining superpower? Or a desperate response to the erosion of the strategy it developed for ensuring its leadership over the advanced capitalist world during the Cold War? Essays by Barbara Epstein, Amiya Kumar Bagchi and others also examine the prospects for the resistance to imperialism in the United States and globally." (jacket)