Böcker av James Petras

First published in 1992, Latin America in the Time of Cholera questions many ideas regarding the advent of a new era of democracy, peace, and north-south cooperation for development in the post-Cold War period by challenging several myths that shape United States policy toward Latin America.

This book is about the opposition to neoliberalism-a significant political movement that has influence, particularly among the popular classes. It analyzes the emergence of a new Left in Latin America grounded in the new social forces in the countryside and in the urban slums.

Two of the left's most important academics analyze the politics and economics of US imperialism's relationship with Latin America.

A renewed call for radical change and systemic transformation in the face of an emerging, new form of capitalist imperialism

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.

Offering a systematic, critical analysis of the presidency of Fernando Cardoso, this ambitious case study assesses government policies within the framework of the new economic model of globalization and structural adjustment.

This study presents a critical analysis of US empire-building, dirty money and political power. It features a discussion of neo-mercantilism as a new mode of empire and examines the role of movements of unemployed and landless peasants in key Third World countries.

Lays out an analysis of the dynamics and contradictions of capitalism in the twenty-first century which are traced out in developments across the world - in the Arab Spring of North Africa and the Middle East, in Cuba and elsewhere in Latin America, in the United States, and in Asia.

"The Left Strikes Back addresses the neglected topic of popular resistance to capital globalization and neoliberal polices, and considers the future of the revolutionary left in this region. James Pet"

An important and well-researched critique of American domestic policy, contending that the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations have all focused on global leadership to the detriment of pressing social and economic problems at home.

A contribution to the debate around Hardt & Negri's 'Empire without Imperialism'.

Perhaps no word today is used and misused more than globalization. It generally serves to refer to worldwide epoch-defining changes in the organization of societies, economies and politics. But as Petras and Veltmeyer demonstrate, the term globalization obscures much more than it reveals.