This book offers a broader and deeper examination of the dynamics of U. S. Imperialism than previous books. Petras analyzes imperialism not only as economic domination, showing that its impact in the world takes many forms, including cultural, political, and historical.

James Petras is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Binghamton University. He is the author of over sixty books on the dynamics of global power and Latin American development. They include Power and Resistance: US Imperialism in Latin America and Imperialism and Capitalism in the 21st Century.

Part I: Historical background, 1. US global power in the 21st century, 2. Fifty years of imperial wars, 3. Empire or vampire?, 4. A century of wars that were lost,

Part II: Structure of empire, 5.Foundations of the US empire, 6. Networks of empire and realignments of world power, 7. Imperial power centers,

Part III: Political economy of empire, 8. Democracy and world power, 9. Imperial wars and domestic epidemics, 10. The Pentagon and big oil, 11. Soaring profits and soaring social costs, 12. Putting an end to the welfare state, 13. Imperial recovery and disappearing workers, 14. Global empire and internal colonialism, 15. Immigration, 16. Imperialists' fear and loathing...of being colonized,

Part IV: Geopolitics of empire, 17. Dis-accumulation on a global scale, 18. Washington's two-track policy, 19. The United States' Grand Strategy toward China, 20. Remapping the Middle East, 21. The offensive against Venezuela, 22. The sun never sets but the mote remains, 23. The emperor's rage,

Part V: Ideology of Empire, 24. The Harvard school of empire-building, 25. Lies and deceptions on the left, 26. An Empire Built on Fear at Home and Abroad, 27. Imperial road to conquest, 28. Mapping Trump's empire: assets and liabilities, 29. Latin America in the Time of Trump, 30. Trump's Protectionism, 31. Trump marches onwards and downwards, 32. Trump against the world order, 33. A Decalogue of American Empire-Building.