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Book SynopsisFrom 9/11 to the Anglo-American occupation of Iraq, the eurozone crisis to the Brexit vote, the Great Recession to the Arab Spring, the rise of China to the annexation of Crimea, the passage from Obama to Trump and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the London-based
New Left Review has offered a series of sharply critical editorials, combining argument with analysis-radical antidotes to the self-serving accounts of the Anglophone press.
Contraventions brings together a selection of
NLR's key political writings, covering capitalist boom and bust, the changing forms of American hegemony, the combined and uneven development of world powers, the domestic politics of the US and UK and multiple revolts from below, at the ballot box or in the streets. Bookended by broader surveys of the political-intellectual conjuncture, these essays dismantle mainstream narratives and anatomize the ideologies, institutions and on-the-ground operations of liberal-imperial rule.
Contraventions includes texts by Perry Anderson, Tariq Ali, Mike Davis, Susan Watkins, Alexander Cockburn, Peter Gowan, Tony Wood, JoAnn Wypijewski, Tom Hazeldine and Dylan Riley.
Trade Review"Since its inception, the review has been an invaluable source of reasoned analysis and insight into critical issues of policy, economy, society, and contemporary culture. A proud record to carry forward into difficult times ahead."
– Noam Chomsky
"The biography of the review cannot be reduced to a formula: its experience so far has been too rich and too contradictory. It is up to date without being merely journalistic; it is scholarly but unscarred by citation-compulsion; and it is analytical about the long-term forces at work in politics rather than obsessed by the spume of the latest wavelet of manoeuvring and posturing. That's what I admire above all about NLR: its intellectual seriousness – its magnificently strenuous attempt to understand, to analyse, to theorise."
– Stefan Collini,
GuardianTable of ContentsIntroduction by Susan Watkins
I. A GLOBAL HEGEMONY
1. Renewals -
Perry Anderson2. Our Herods -
Tariq Ali3. Testing Formula Two -
Perry Anderson4. Flames of New York -
Mike Davis5. Force and Consent -
Perry Anderson 6. Vichy on the Tigris -
Susan Watkins7. Whatever Happened to the Anti-War Movement? -
Alexander Cockburn8. US:UN -
Peter Gowan9. The Nuclear Non-Protestation Treaty -
Susan Watkinsii. CRISIS IN THE HEARTLANDS
10. Shifting Sands -
Susan Watkins11. Good Riddance -
Tony Wood12. On the Concatenation in the Arab World -
Perry Anderson13. Spring Confronts Winter -
Mike Davis14. Presentism? Reply to T. J. Clark -
Susan Watkins15. Annexations -
Susan Watkins16. The State of the Union -
Susan Watkins17. Passing the Baton -
Perry Anderson18. The Politics of Insecurity -
JoAnn Wypijewski19. Revolt of the Rustbelt -
Tom Hazeldine20. What Is Trump? -
Dylan Riley21. America versus China -
Susan Watkins22. Five Wars in One -
Susan Watkins
