Power and Resistance
US Imperialism in Latin America
Description
This book concerns the form taken today by US imperialism in Latin-America, analyzing the projection of US state power as a means of both advancing the economic interests of US capital in the region and maintaining its hegemony over the world capitalist system. The authors survey the motives driving these policies, and the resistance they have generated across the region.
Author Bios
James Petras is Professor Emeritus in Sociology at Binghamption University, and author of over 60 books on Latin American affairs and world affairs, including Imperialism and Capitalism in the 21st Century and Social Movements in Latin America.
Henry Veltmeyer, Ph.D. (1976) is professor of international development studies at Saint Mary's University. He has published extensively on the political economy of international development and Latin America.
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Publication date: October 10, 2017
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART I. RETHINKING IMPERIALISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY
1. Capitalism and Imperialism: notes on an intimate relation
2. Imperialism in an era of extractive capitalism
3. Extractive Imperialism and the post-neoliberal state
4. Imperialist dynamics of agroextractivism
PART II. POLICY AND RESISTANCE DYNAMICS OF US IMPERIALISM
5. US Imperialism in Latin America: Then and now
6. US global power in the 21st Century: military or economic imperialism?
7. Fifty years of imperial wars: results and perspectives
8. Networks of empire and realignments of world power
9. Paradoxes of anti-imperialism and class struggle
PART III. THE VENEZUELAN PIVOT OF US IMPERIALISM
10. The US and Venezuela: decades of defeats and destabilization
11. The Chávez factor in US-Venezuela relations
12. Obama’s imperialist offensive against Venezuela
Bibliography
Index
