ABSTRACT
The current era of capitalist development dawned in the early 1980s, in the vortex of forces and conditions associated with unresolved system-wide production crisis, a far-reaching and hard-hitting debt crisis, and a fiscal crisis brought on by the contradictory forces upon the capitalist state (compelled by these forces to both sustain and advance the accumulation process, and to improve the welfare of the population). This chapter takes the form of four analytical probes into the dynamics of neoliberal globalization and US imperialism in the vortex of the forces released in the context of this triple crisis
Networks of Empire and a Realignment of World Power
Imperial states build networks that link economic, military and political activities into a coherent mutually reinforcing system. This task is largely performed by the various institutions of the imperial state. Thus imperial action is not always directly economic, as military action in one country or region is necessary to open or protect economic zones. Nor are all military actions decided by economic interests if the leading sector of the imperial state is decidedly militarist.
