The New Development Politics

The Age of Empire Building and New Social Movements

James Petras

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9780754635406
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351885164
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Comparative Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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, increasing protectionism and inter-state rivalries and the growing age of state intervention in political, economic and social life. The study presents a critical analysis of US empire-building, the role of dirty money and political power, as opposed to technological change. It features a discussion of neo-mercantilism as a new mode of empire and examines the role of new movements of unemployed and landless peasants in key Third World countries.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• 1 Imperialism and Empire-building in the Twenty-first Century
• 2 The US Offensive in Latin America: Golpes, Retreat and Radicalization
• 3 Dirty Money: The Foundation of US Growth and Empire
• 4 The Centrality of the State
• 5 The Myth of the Third Scientific-Technological Revolution
• 6 Neo-mercantilist Empire in Latin America: Bush, ALCA and Plan Colombia
• 7 Peasant-based Socio-political Movements in Latin America
• 8 Brazil's Rural Landless Workers' Movement: Ten Hypotheses on Successful Leadership
• 9 The Unemployed Workers' Movement in Argentina
• 10 Non-governmental Organizations in a Conjuncture of Conflict and War Psychosis
• 11 On Revolutionary Politics
• Bibliography
• Index