Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Leo Panitch and Colin Leys -- The new imperial order foretold / Varda Burstyn -- The contradictions of US supremacy / Stephen Gill -- Finance and American empire / Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin -- The role of financial discipline in imperial strategy / Christopher Rude -- Hollywood reloaded : the film as imperial commodity / Scott Forsyth -- Feeding the empire : the pathologies of globalized agriculture / Harriet Friedmann -- Reviving the developmental state? : the myth of the 'national bourgeoisie' / Vivek Chibber -- Bandung redux : anti-globalization nationalisms in Southeast Asia / Gerard Greenfield -- The media matrix : China's integration into global capitalism / Yuezhi Zhao -- US empire and South African subimperialism / Patrick Bond -- Terror, capital and crude : US counterinsurgency in Colombia / Doug Stokes -- 'Signs of the times' : capitalism, competitiveness, and the new face of empire in Latin America / Paul Cammack -- The Russian state in the age of American empire / Boris Kagarlitsky -- The European Union and American power / John Grahl -- The EU and Eastern Europe : failing the test as a better world power / Dorothee Bohle -- Habermas' manifesto for a European renaissance : a critique / Frank Deppe -- Bush and Blair : Iraq and the UK's American viceroy / Tony Benn and Colin Leys.