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Book SynopsisThis book concerns the form taken today by US imperialism in Latin America, with reference to the projection of US state power as a means of both advancing the economic interests of the US capitalist class in the region and maintaining its hegemony over the world capitalist system.
Table of ContentsIntroduction 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
