Pox Americana : Exposing the American Empire

by Foster, John Bellamy

• ISBN13: 9781583671122
• ISBN10: 1583671129
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-08-01
• Publisher: Monthly Review Pr

Summary

This volume gathers the work of leading left-wing analysts of imperialism to examine the burning question of our time--the nature and prospects of the U.S. imperial project currently being given shape by war and occupation in the Middle East.Noam Chomsky, Immanuel Wallerstein, Peter Gowan, and others discuss the dynamics at work behind the "War on Terrorism." 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.Pox Americanabrings together a range of insights and perspectives that were originally presented at a conference in Burlington, Vermont, to honor Harry Magdoff on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday. It is a fitting tribute to Magdoff's pioneering analyses of U.S. imperialism and a testimony to the resilience and fruitfulness of the radical tradition.

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(5)
John Bellamy Foster
Robert W. McChesney
PART ONE: U.S. Imperialism Has a Long History
Kipling, the ``White Man's Burden,'' and U.S. Imperialism	12	(10)
John Bellamy Foster
Harry Magdoff
Robert W. McChesney
Imperial Ambition	22	(9)
Noam Chomsky
David Barsamian
The Grid of History: Cowboys and Indians	31	(10)
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
U.S. Weakness and the Struggle for Hegemony	41	(10)
Immanuel Wallerstein
PART TWO: The Geopolitics and Political Economy of U.S. Imperialism
The New Geopolitics	51	(6)
Michael Klare
U.S. Hegemony Today	57	(20)
Peter Gowan
The Global Minotaur	77	(18)
Joseph Halevi
Yanis Varoufakis
The Two Wings of the Eagle	95	(9)
William K. Tabb
PART THREE: Resistance
Confronting the Empire	104	(8)
Samir Amin
The Parameters of Resistance	112	(7)
Amiya Kumar Bagchi
Can U.S. Workers Embrace Anti-imperialism?	119	(16)
Bill Fletcher Jr.
Prospects for Anti-imperialism: Coming to Terms with Our Own Bourgeoisie	135	(8)
Sam Gindin
Notes on the Antiwar Movement	143	(8)
Barbara Epstein
Construction of an Enemy	151	(5)
Eleanor Stein
Homeland Imperialism: Fear and Resistance	156	(5)
Bernardine Dohrn
The New Age of Imperialism	161	(14)
John Bellamy Foster
Contributors	175	(3)
Notes	178	(6)
Index	184