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Imperialism and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century

A System in Crisis

By: Raúl Delgado Wise,Professor Henry Veltmeyer,Professor James Petras

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Imperialism and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century

A System in Crisis

By: Raúl Delgado Wise,Professor Henry Veltmeyer,Professor James Petras

We live in a time of dynamic, but generally regressive regime change-a period in which major political transformations and a rollback of a half-century of legislation are accelerated under conditions of a prolonged and deepening economic crisis and a worldwide offensive against the citizenry and the working class. Written by two of the world’s leading left-wing thinkers, Imperialism and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century takes the form of a number of analytical probes into some of the dynamics of capitalist development and imperialism in contemporary conditions of a system in crisis. It is too early to be definitive about the form that capitalism and imperialism -and socialism-might be or is taking, as we are in but the early stages of a new developmental dynamic, the conditions of which are too complex to anticipate or grasp in thought; they require a closer look and much further study from a critical development and Marxist perspective. The purpose of this book is to advance this process and give some form to this perspective.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409467341

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Multinationals on Trial

Foreign Investment Matters

By: Professor Henry Veltmeyer,Professor James Petras

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Multinationals on Trial

Foreign Investment Matters

By: Professor Henry Veltmeyer,Professor James Petras

The role and economic power of corporations that dominate the world economy has generated considerable controversy. The most heated debate and the most critical questions surrounding the role of multinational corporations relate to foreign direct investment (FDI). This key volume offers an entirely fresh perspective of the role of multinationals and the development impact of FDI. Contrary to prevailing opinion, it examines whether imperialism is a much more useful concept for describing and explaining the dynamics of world development than globalization. FDI is a mechanism for empire-centred capital accumulation, a powerful lever for political control and for re-ordering the world economy. This is a much needed analysis of global capitalism and its impact around the world, resulting in an excellent resource for students, academics and activists.

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1409498158

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9781409498155

Beyond Neoliberalism

A World to Win

By: Professor Henry Veltmeyer,Professor James Petras

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Beyond Neoliberalism

A World to Win

By: Professor Henry Veltmeyer,Professor James Petras

The world is at the crossroads of social change, in the vortex of forces that are bringing about a different world, a post-neoliberal state. This groundbreaking book lays out an analysis of the dynamics and contradictions of capitalism in the twenty-first century. These dynamics of forces are traced out in developments across the world - in the Arab Spring of North Africa and the Middle East, in Cuba and elsewhere in Latin America, in the United States, and in Asia. The forces released by a system in crisis can be mobilized in different ways and directions. The focus of the book is on the strategic responses to the systemic crisis. As the authors tell it, these dynamics concern three worldviews and strategic responses. The Davos Consensus focuses on the virtues of the free market and deregulated capitalism as it represents the interests of the global ruling class. The post-Washington Consensus concerns the need to give capital a human face and establish a more inclusive form of development and global governance. In addition to these two visions of the future and projects, the authors identify an emerging radical consensus on the need to move beyond capitalism as well as neoliberalism.

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310

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409495035

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9781409495031

The New Development Politics

The Age of Empire Building and New Social Movements

By: Professor James Petras

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The New Development Politics

The Age of Empire Building and New Social Movements

By: Professor James Petras

A critique of current conceptions of international political economy, the role of the state and contemporary social movements, The New Development Politics challenges the dominant paradigms in the field of development studies. Raising fundamental theoretical and empirical questions, it provides a coherent response to the increasing militarization of inter-state relations, increasing protectionism and inter-state rivalries and the growing age of state intervention in political, economic and social life. The study presents a critical analysis of US empire-building, the role of dirty money and political power, as opposed to technological change. It features a discussion of neo-mercantilism as a new mode of empire and examines the role of new movements of unemployed and landless peasants in key Third World countries.

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395

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409495760

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What's Left in Latin America?

Regime Change in New Times

By: Professor Henry Veltmeyer,Professor James Petras

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What's Left in Latin America?

Regime Change in New Times

By: Professor Henry Veltmeyer,Professor James Petras

This book concerns recent and current political developments in Latin America related to the emergence of left-leaning regimes riding the waves of anti-neoliberalism and a primary commodities boom. Based on five years of field research and a critical engagement with social movements in the region, the book documents the short-term advances and strategic weaknesses of these left-leaning regimes, highlighting their failure to take advantage of favourable economic and political conditions. The authors profile four cases of recent and current political developments, and the prospects for socialism, in Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba and Venezuela.

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1409499146

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Beyond Neoliberalism

A World to Win

By: Professor Henry Veltmeyer,Professor James Petras

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A World to Win

By: Professor Henry Veltmeyer,Professor James Petras

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Pluralism, Democracy and Political Knowledge

Robert A. Dahl and his Critics on Modern Politics

By: Professor Hans Blokland

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Pluralism, Democracy and Political Knowledge

Robert A. Dahl and his Critics on Modern Politics

By: Professor Hans Blokland

The political discontent or malaise that typifies most modern democracies is mainly caused by the widely shared feeling that the political freedom of citizens to influence the development of their society and, related to this, their personal life, has become rather limited. We can only address this discontent when we rehabilitate politics, the deliberate, joint effort to give direction to society and to make the best of ourselves. In Pluralism, Democracy and Political Knowledge, Hans Blokland examines this challenge via a critical appraisal of the pluralist conception of politics and democracy. This conception was formulated by, above all, Robert A. Dahl, one of the most important political scholars and democratic theorists of the last half century. Taking his work as the point of reference, this book not only provides an illuminating history of political science, told via Dahl and his critics, it also offers a revealing analysis as to what progress we have made in our thinking on pluralism and democracy, and what progress we could make, given the epistemological constraints of the social sciences. Above and beyond this, the development and the problems of pluralism and democracy are explored in the context of the process of modernization. The author specifically discusses the extent to which individualization, differentiation and rationalization contribute to the current political malaise in those countries which adhere to a pluralist political system.

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1409476499

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Political Culture, Political Science, and Identity Politics

An Uneasy Alliance

By: Professor Howard J Wiarda

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Political Culture, Political Science, and Identity Politics

An Uneasy Alliance

By: Professor Howard J Wiarda

Political Culture (defined as the values, beliefs, and behavioral patterns underlying the political system) has long had an uneasy relationship with political science. Identity politics is the latest incarnation of this conflict. Everyone agrees that culture and identity are important, specifically political culture, is important in understanding other countries and global regions, but no one agrees how much or how precisely to measure it. In this important book, well known Comparativist, Howard J. Wiarda, traces the long and controversial history of culture studies, and the relations of political culture and identity politics to political science. Under attack from structuralists, institutionalists, Marxists, and dependency writers, Wiarda examines and assesses the reasons for these attacks and why political culture went into decline only to have a new and transcendent renaissance and revival in the writings of Inglehart, Fukuyama, Putnam, Huntington and many others. Today, political culture, now updated to include identity politics, stands as one of these great explanatory paradigms in political science, the others being structuralism and institutionalism. Rather than seeing them as diametrically exposed, Howard Wiarda shows how they may be made complementary and woven together in more complex, multicausal explanations. This book is brief, highly readable, provocative and certain to stimulate discussion. It will be of interest to general readers and as a text in courses in international relations, comparative politics, foreign policy, and Third World studies.

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147244230X

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Multinationals on Trial

Foreign Investment Matters

By: Professor Henry Veltmeyer,Professor James Petras

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Multinationals on Trial

Foreign Investment Matters

By: Professor Henry Veltmeyer,Professor James Petras

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Imperialism and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century

Imperialism and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century

Multinationals on Trial

Multinationals on Trial

Beyond Neoliberalism

Beyond Neoliberalism

The New Development Politics

The New Development Politics

What's Left in Latin America?

What's Left in Latin America?

Beyond Neoliberalism

Beyond Neoliberalism

Pluralism, Democracy and Political Knowledge

Pluralism, Democracy and Political Knowledge

Political Culture, Political Science, and Identity Politics

Political Culture, Political Science, and Identity Politics

Multinationals on Trial

Multinationals on Trial

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