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  • US IMPERIALISM
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    US IMPERIALISM
    JAMES PETRAS
    This book offers a broad and deep examination of the dynamics of US imperialism. Petras analyzes imperialism not only as economic domination, showing that its impact in the world takes many forms, including cultural, political and historical. He points to the disruptive effects it has on other world regional economies and cultures. Capitalism and imperialism take diverse forms ...

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  • LATIN AMERICA IN THE VORTEX OF SOCIAL CHANGE
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    LATIN AMERICA IN THE VORTEX OF SOCIAL CHANGE
    HENRY VELTMEYER / JAMES PETRAS
    This book explores the dynamics of the recent ‘progressive cycle’ in Latin American politics, associated with a red and pink tide of regime change. With this cycle of centre-left regimes oriented towards an alternative post-neoliberal form of development now coming to an end, coinciding with the end of a ‘primary commodities boom’ (the demand for natural resources exported in p...

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  • THE LEFT STRIKES BACK
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    THE LEFT STRIKES BACK
    JAMES PETRAS
    James Petras shows that the current stage of capital globalization and the weakening of the ability of established popular groups to defend themselves have generated an important organized response on the part of those whose standard of living is most undermined and threatened by the process. The book argues convincingly that we can now see the emerging forms of resistance in n...

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  • THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN LATIN AMERICA
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    THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN LATIN AMERICA
    JAMES PETRAS / HENRY VELTMEYER
    The Class Struggle in Latin America: Making History Today analyses the political and economic dynamics of development in Latin America through the lens of class struggle. Focusing in particular on Peru, Paraguay, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela, the book identifies how the shifts and changing dynamics of the class struggle have impacted on the rise, demise and ...

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  • THE NEW DEVELOPMENT POLITICS
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    THE NEW DEVELOPMENT POLITICS
    JAMES PETRAS
    A critique of current conceptions of international political economy, the role of the state and contemporary social movements, The New Development Politics challenges the dominant paradigms in the field of development studies. Raising fundamental theoretical and empirical questions, it provides a coherent response to the increasing militarization of inter-state relations, incre...

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  • IMPERIALISM AND CAPITALISM IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
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    IMPERIALISM AND CAPITALISM IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
    JAMES PETRAS / HENRY VELTMEYER / HUMBERTO MÁRQUEZ
    We live in a time of dynamic, but generally regressive regime change-a period in which major political transformations and a rollback of a half-century of legislation are accelerated under conditions of a prolonged and deepening economic crisis and a worldwide offensive against the citizenry and the working class. Written by two of the world’s leading left-wing thinkers, Imper...

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  • BEYOND NEOLIBERALISM
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    BEYOND NEOLIBERALISM
    JAMES PETRAS / HENRY VELTMEYER
    The world is at the crossroads of social change, in the vortex of forces that are bringing about a different world, a post-neoliberal state. This groundbreaking book lays out an analysis of the dynamics and contradictions of capitalism in the twenty-first century. These dynamics of forces are traced out in developments across the world - in the Arab Spring of North Africa and t...

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  • DEMOCRACY AND POVERTY IN CHILE
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    DEMOCRACY AND POVERTY IN CHILE
    JAMES PETRAS
    The critical issues concerning the development of a substantial and enduring democracy in Chile are those of strengthening civil society, democratizing the permanent institutions of the state, and building an economy geared to effectively satisfy human needs. In this book, the authors offer a critique of the Chilean transition and of the Aylwin electoral regime, analyzing the l...

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  • EMPIRE OR REPUBLIC?
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    EMPIRE OR REPUBLIC?
    JAMES PETRAS / MORRIS MORLEY
    Empire or Republic? makes the necessary, but much overlooked, link between our nation's international policies and the domestic situation. The authors contend that the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations have all focused on global leadership to the detriment of pressing social, economic and political problems at home. ...

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  • WHAT'S LEFT IN LATIN AMERICA?
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    WHAT'S LEFT IN LATIN AMERICA?
    JAMES PETRAS / HENRY VELTMEYER
    This book concerns recent and current political developments in Latin America related to the emergence of left-leaning regimes riding the waves of anti-neoliberalism and a primary commodities boom. Based on five years of field research and a critical engagement with social movements in the region, the book documents the short-term advances and strategic weaknesses of these left...

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  • MULTINATIONALS ON TRIAL
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    MULTINATIONALS ON TRIAL
    JAMES PETRAS / HENRY VELTMEYER
    The role and economic power of corporations that dominate the world economy has generated considerable controversy. The most heated debate and the most critical questions surrounding the role of multinational corporations relate to foreign direct investment (FDI). This key volume offers an entirely fresh perspective of the role of multinationals and the development impact of FD...

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