Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Political Economy of Globalization and its Contradictions Theories of the Global Economy and Global Empire The Logic of Global Capitalist Expansion: Theories of Modern Imperialism The Controversy over Globalization, Imperialism and Capitalist Development on a World Scale The Postwar Rise of U.S. Capital onto the Global Scene The Globalization of U.S. Capital and the Resurgence of Interimperialist Rivalry The Imperial State and Control of the Global Political Economy Global Capitalist Expansion and Domestic Economic Decline in the United States The Globalization Capital and the Capitalist State in the Third World lobalization, Class Struggle, and Social Trans

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