Implicating Empire

by Aronowitz, Stanley

• ISBN13: 9780465004942
• ISBN10: 0465004946
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-18
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

Over the past several years, while visible protests against the World Bank and the I.M.F. made front-page news, there has been a growing field of scholarship that looks at the role of globalization for national and international state identities. The first truism of globalization--that we live in an increasingly interconnected world, one in which it is impossible to separate the fate of one nation from that of the others--was dramatically illustrated on September 11, 2001, when the seemingly distant effects of a civil war in Afghanistan so murderously interrupted life in the United States.Implicating Empire is the first book to look at four crucial dimensions of globalization: first, its role vis-a-vis the current war; second, the impact of globalization on domestic U.S. policy; third, how globalization will necessarily alter national security, both in its definition as well as how it is pursued, and, finally, the future of globalization. Including original essays by Stanley Aronowitz, Ahmed Rashid, Tariq Ali, Manning Marable, Michael Hardt, and Ellen Willis, among others, Implicating Empire will set the agenda for how globalization is debated--and resisted--in the future.

Author Biography

Stanley Aronowitz is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Heather Gautney is a doctoral student at the Graduate Center. Both live in New York City.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	p. ix
The Debate About Globalization: An Introduction	p. xi
Terrorism and War
9/11: Racism in a Time of Terror	p. 3
The Wen Ho Lee Affair: Between Race and National Security	p. 15
Making Us Less Free: War on Terrorism or War on Liberty?	p. 31
Fear, American Style: Civil Liberty After 9/11	p. 47
The Globalization of Violence in the 21st Century: Israel, Palestine, and the War on Terror	p. 65
Beyond Good and Evil: A Contribution to the Analysis of the War Against Terrorism	p. 83
The Mass Psychology of Terrorism	p. 95
Globalization, the State, and the Political Economy
Globalization and Democracy	p. 109
Over, Under, Sideways, Down: Globalization, Spatial Metaphors, and the Question of State Power	p. 123
The Anti-Capitalist Movement After Genoa and New York	p. 133
Race to the Bottom?	p. 151
Time, Poverty, and Global Democracy	p. 159
Global Capital and Its Opponents	p. 179
The Culture of Globalization and Resistance
Globalization Today	p. 199
Geography Financialized	p. 211
Globalization, Trade Liberalization, and the Higher Education Industry	p. 229
Vagabond Capitalism and the Necessity of Social Reproduction	p. 255
On the Global Uses of September 11 and Its Urban Impact	p. 271
Globalization and the Need for an Urban Environmentalism	p. 287
Argentina and the End of the First World Dream	p. 309
The Globalization Movement and the New New Left	p. 325
About the Authors	p. 339
Index	p. 343
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