Pox Americana: Exposing the American Empire

This volume examines the nature and prospects of the U.S. imperial project currently being given shape by war and occupation in the Middle East. Immanuel Wallerstein, Peter Gown, and other discuss the dynamics at work behind the “Waron Terrorism.” Their analyses locate recent developments within a longer historical arc, and set out the central questions for research and debate: Is U.S. unilateralist and militarism a sign of the increasing strength of the world’s only remaining superpower? Or a desperate response to the erosion of the strategy it developed for ensuring its leadership over the advanced capitalist world during the Cold War? Essays by Barbara Epstein, Amiya Kumar Bagchi and others also examine the prospects for the resistance to imperialism in the United States and globally.