Introduction

PART I. RETHINKING IMPERIALISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY
1. Capitalism and Imperialism: notes on an intimate relation
2. Imperialism in an era of extractive capitalism
3. Extractive Imperialism and the post-neoliberal state
4. Imperialist dynamics of agroextractivism

PART II. POLICY AND RESISTANCE DYNAMICS OF US IMPERIALISM
5. US Imperialism in Latin America: Then and now
6. US global power in the 21st Century: military or economic imperialism?
7. Fifty years of imperial wars: results and perspectives
8. Networks of empire and realignments of world power
9. Paradoxes of anti-imperialism and class struggle

PART III. THE VENEZUELAN PIVOT OF US IMPERIALISM
10. The US and Venezuela: decades of defeats and destabilization
11. The Chávez factor in US-Venezuela relations
12. Obama's imperialist offensive against Venezuela

Bibliography
Index

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

James Petras is Professor Emeritus in Sociology at Binghamption University, and author of over 60 books on Latin American affairs and world affairs, including Imperialism and Capitalism in the 2Ist Century and Social Movements in Latin America.

Henry Veltmeyer is Professor of Development Studies at Saint Mary's University and Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas. He has authored and edited over 40 books on Latin American and world affairs, including Imperialism, Crisis and Class Struggle: The Verities of Capitalism.