James Petras: 19 books
by James Petras
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
##Following in the train of two highly successful books addressing the influence of Israel on US Middle East policy and the onerous effects of support for Israeli interests that have resulted, Petras pursues this theme to illustrate how the conjunction of Israeli domestc influence in the US, spurring...
Rulers and Ruled in the US Empire
Bankers, Zionists and Militants
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
This book provides a comprehensive guide to the systemic dimensions of the US empire. Petras elaborates the changes within the US ruling class, as its manufacturing sector declines and gives way to the ascendancy of finance capital, illustrated by its dominance of both the US economy, and the parameters...
by James Petras, Henry Veltmeyer
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 28, 2015
En medio de un auge en la demanda mundial de materias primas, muchos países están
recurriendo a la extracción de recursos naturales y a su exportación como un antídoto para
la recesión global. El neoextractivismo aborda un dilema fundamental que enfrentan estos
gobiernos:...
by James Petras
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Are we approaching “peak America”, where the Republic has failed, and the Empire which put paid to it cannot be achieved?Seasoned political analyst James Petras addresses in broad brush the four major upheavals that loom:1) For the first time, the...
The Left Strikes Back
Class Conflict In Latin America In The Age Of Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
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...
by James Petras
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
When the popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia overthrew the public faces of the imperial-backed regimes in the region, it inspired supporters of popular democracy worldwide. However, as the Arab revolt spread from North Africa to the Gulf and deepened its demands, the Empire struck back. The ruling...
Peasants in Revolt
A Chilean Case Study, 1965–1971
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Based on extended interviews at the Culiprán fundo in Chile with peasants who recount in their own terms their political evolution, this is an in-depth study of peasants in social and political action. It deals with two basic themes: first, the authoritarian structure within a traditional latifundio...
by James Petras
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
This book is a chapter-by-chapter analysis and documentation of the power of Israel via the Israeli, Jewish or Pro-Zionist Lobby on US Middle East policy. It raises serious questions as to the primary beneficiary of US policy, and its destructive results for the United States. The extraordinary extent...
Empire or Republic?
American Global Power and Domestic Decay
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
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.
The New Development Politics
The Age of Empire Building and New Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
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...
Multinationals on Trial
Foreign Investment Matters
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
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...
The New Extractivism
A Post-Neoliberal Development Model or Imperialism of the Twenty-First Century?
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
In a primary commodities boom spurred on by the rise of China, countries the world over are turning to the extraction of natural resources and the export of primary commodities as an antidote to the global recession. The New Extractivism addresses a fundamental dilemma faced by these governments:...
What's Left in Latin America?
Regime Change in New Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
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,...
Imperialism and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century
A System in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
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...
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