TY - BOOK AU - Panitch,Leo AU - Leys,Colin TI - Socialist register 2004: the new imperial challenges T2 - The socialist register SN - 8170742714 U1 - 325.320973 23 CY - Calcutta PB - K P Bagchi & Company KW - Capitalism KW - Colonization KW - International politics KW - United States KW - Colonies N1 - The socialist register : founded in 1994; incl. bibliographical reference and index; Preface --; Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin; Global Capitalism and American Empire --; Aijaz Ahmad; Imperialism of Our Time --; David Harvey; The ‘New’ Imperialism: Accumulation by Dispossession --; Greg Albo; The Old and New Economics of Imperialism --; Noam Chomsky; Truths and Myths about the Invasion of Iraq --; Amy Bartholomew and Jennifer Breakspear; Human Rights as Swords of Empire? --; Paul Rogers; ‘A Uniquely Benign Imperialism’? --; Michael T. Klare; Blood for Oil: The Bush-Cheney Energy Strategy --; John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark; Ecological Imperialism: The Curse of Capitalism --; Tina Wallace; NGO Dilemmas: Trojan Horses for Global Neoliberalism? --; John S. Saul; Globalization, Imperialism, Development: False Binaries and Radical Resolutions --; Emad El-Din Aysha; The Limits and Contradictions of ‘Americanization’ --; Bob Sutcliffe; Crossing Borders in the New Imperialism N2 - "The essays in this fortieth volume of The Socialist Register analyze the unique nature of the new U.S. empire and challenge the left to develop a better theory of imperialism and its relation to globalized capitalism. Other essays examine the limits and contradictions of “Americanization” as a dimension of U.S. global power; the facts and myths surrounding U.S. strategic interests in Iraq and the “war on terror”; ecological imperialism, and the significance of international migration in the new imperial order." ER -