The Empire Reloaded Socialist Register 2005

How does the new American empire work? Who runs it? How stable is it?

What is the new American Empire's impact throughout the world?

What is its influence on gender relations? On the media? On popular culture?

Contents:

Varda Burstyn: The New Imperial Order Foretold
Stephen Gill: The Contradictions of US Supremacy
Leo Panitch & Sam Gindin Finance and American Empire
Christopher Rude: The Role of Financial Discipline in Imperial Strategy
Scott Forsyth: Hollywood Reloaded: The Film as Imperial Commodity
Harriet Friedmann: Feeding the Empire: The Pathologies of Globalized Agriculture
Vivek Chibber: Reviving the Developmental State? The Myth of the 'National Bourgeoisie'
Gerard Greenfield: Bandung redux: Anti-Globalization Nationalisms in Southeast Asia
Yuezhi Zhao: The Media Matrix: China's Integration into Global Capitalism
Patrick Bond: US Empire and South African Subimperialism
Doug Stokes: Terror, Capital and Crude: US Counterinsurgency in Colombia
Paul Cammack: 'Signs of the Times': Capitalism, Competitiveness, and the New Face of Empire in Latin America
Boris Kagarlitsky: The Russian State in the Age of American Empire
John Grahl: The European Union and American Power
Dorothee Bohle: The EU and Eastern Europe: Failing the Test as a Better World Power
Frank Deppe: Habermas' Manifesto for a European Renaissance: A Critique
Tony Benn & Colin Leys: Bush and Blair: Iraq and the UK's American Viceroy