Socialist Register 2005 : The Empire Reloaded
Contents: Preface. 1. The new imperial order foretold/Varda Burstyn. 2. The contradictions of US supremacy/Stephen Gill. 3. Finance and American Empire/Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin. 4. The role of financial discipline in imperial strategy/Christopher Rude. 5. Hollywood reloaded : the film as imperial commodity/Scott Forsyth. 6. Feeding the empire: the pathologies of globalized agriculture/Harriet Friedmann. 7. Reviving the developmental state? The myth of the \'National Bourgeoisie\'/Vivek Chibber. 8. Bandung redux : imperialism and anti-globalization nationalisms in Southeast Asia/Gerard Greenfield. 9. The media matrix : China\'s integration into global capitalism/Yuezhi Zhao. 10. US empire and South African subimperialism/Patrick Bond. 11. Terror, capital and crude : US counterinsurgency in Colombia/Doug Stokes. 12. \'Signs of the times\': capitalism, competitiveness, and the new face of empire in Latin America/Paul Cammack. 13. The Russian State in the age of American Empire/Boris Kagarlitsky. 14. The European Union and American Power/John Garhl. 15. The EU and Eastern Europe : failing the test as a better world power/Dorothee Bohle. 16. Habermas\'s manifesto for an European renaissance : a critique/Frank Deppe. 17. Bush and Blair : Iraq and the UK\'s American Viceroy/Tony Benn and Colin Leys.