{"id":2813,"date":"2014-07-21T21:05:06","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T19:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.islamicworld.it\/wp\/?p=2813"},"modified":"2014-07-21T21:05:06","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T19:05:06","slug":"the-politics-of-empire-a-new-book-by-james-petras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.islamicworld.it\/wp\/the-politics-of-empire-a-new-book-by-james-petras\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Politics of Empire”, a new book by James Petras"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US, Israel and the Middle East<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Immagine\"<\/a>We received this note from Clarity Press, Inc. and publish it, in order to fulfill the task assumed by islamicworld.it of witnessing facts and opinions on the Islamic world and its frequent fibrillations.\u00a0The ongoing Gaza crisis between Israel and Palestine raises questions ranging beyond the contingent war issue and its related liability. It rouses reflections on the logical of the world order. Petras offers his own interpretations, focusing attention on the Middle East issues, but also on the nature of power in the American leadership. Islamicworld.it not necessarily intend to grant these interpretations as the sole component of the political analysis, particularly with respect to the Muslim world and its sensitivity in dealing to the outside realities; much less supporting campaigns of allegations, being functional to internal affairs of any country. But, just as surely, it cannot ignore the critical voices surging towards some international political options, always and however unilaterally determined by not all the time clear and explicit interests, aimed at supporting political stances of tiny but powerful States, making a war of aggression its own reason of life.\u00a0In any case, the contents of this book do not necessarily reflect the cultural approach of this website.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The UK\u00a0<\/span><\/b>Daily Telegraph<\/span><\/i><\/b>\u00a0listed Jim
\nPetras as\u00a0<\/span><\/b>#59 most influential liberal<\/span><\/b><\/a>
\nin the United States, ahead of
\nNoam Chomsky and Stephen Colbert.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

SYNOPSIS<\/span><\/b><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/b>
\n<\/span><\/b><\/b>This book provides a unique conception of US empire\u00a0<\/span><\/b>building, linking overseas expansion with<\/span><\/b>:<\/span><\/b>
\n<\/span><\/b>
\n<\/span><\/b>1) the growth of a\u00a0<\/span><\/b>police state and declining living\u00a0<\/span><\/b>standards;<\/span><\/b>
\n<\/span><\/b>2) advanced\u00a0<\/span><\/b>technologically driven global spying on\u00a0<\/span><\/b>adversaries and allies\u00a0<\/span><\/b>with declining economic\u00a0<\/span><\/b>competitiveness and military defeats;<\/span><\/b>
\n<\/span><\/b>3)\u00a0<\/span><\/b>large scale, long term commitments of economic and\u00a0<\/span><\/b>military\u00a0<\/span><\/b>resources to wars in the Middle East to the\u00a0<\/span><\/b>detriment of major\u00a0<\/span><\/b>corporate interests, but for the benefit\u00a0<\/span><\/b>of a pariah state, Israel;\u00a0<\/span><\/b>and<\/span><\/b>
\n<\/span><\/b>4) the power of a foreign state (Israel) over US policy via\u00a0<\/span><\/b>its\u00a0<\/span><\/b>domestic pro-Zionist power configuration.<\/span><\/b>
\n<\/span><\/b>
\n<\/span><\/b>The interplay of these four specific features of US empire\u00a0<\/span><\/b>building has no past or present precedent among imperial\u00a0<\/span><\/b>states. \u00a0Because of Israeli-Zionist influence on US imperial\u00a0<\/span><\/b>policy, the main targets and objectives of imperial wars are\u00a0<\/span><\/b>located in the Middle East. \u00a0The objectives of Israeli and Zionist-<\/span><\/b>influenced US policy in the Middle East is to enhance Israeli\u00a0<\/span><\/b>regional power and the dispossession of the Palestinian\u00a0<\/span><\/b>people. The trillion dollar cost of US wars for Israel, however,\u00a0<\/span><\/b>has alienated the vast majority of US society and driven a wedge\u00a0<\/span><\/b>between the political elite backing new wars for Israel, and the\u00a0<\/span><\/b>public prioritizing of domestic economic welfare. \u00a0This study\u00a0<\/span><\/b>highlights how the domestic foundations of empire building\u00a0<\/span><\/b>have deteriorated and forced the imperial presidency to modify\u00a0<\/span><\/b>its approach, seeking diplomatic negotiations over new military\u00a0<\/span><\/b>interventions, specifically in the cases of Syria and Iran.<\/span><\/b>
\n<\/span><\/b>
\n<\/span><\/b>Imperial politics is viewed as a multi-sided power struggle\u00a0<\/span><\/b>between military and economic elites, Israel and the Zionist\u00a0<\/span><\/b>power configuration, overseas resistance movements and
\n<\/span><\/b>nationalist regimes, and the US public. The resolution of this\u00a0<\/span><\/b>power struggle is more than an academic question; it will\u00a0<\/span><\/b>determine whether the US will become a full blown police state,\u00a0<\/span><\/b>ruled by the pawns of a racist-colonial state engaged in endless\u00a0<\/span><\/b>wars or return to its roots as an independent democratic\u00a0<\/span><\/b>republic \u201cfree of foreign entanglements\u201d.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"TABLE OF CONTENTS<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/b>
\n<\/span>PART 1 OVERVIEW :THE STATE OF THE EMPIRE<\/span><\/b><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

1 THE CHANGING CONTOURS OF US IMPERIAL INTERVENTION IN WORLD CONFLICTS
\n2 \u00a0THE OBAMA REGIME’S MILITARY METAPHYSICS REJECTS DIPLOMATIC\u00a0OPPORTUNITIES
\n3 \u00a0THE DECLINE OF THE US (AND EVERYONE ELSE\u2026)<\/b><\/p>\n

PART 2 CYBER-IMPERIALISM<\/span><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

4 THE LOGIC BEHIND MASS SPYING:EMPIRE AND CYBER-IMPERIALISM
\n5 THE DEEPER MEANING OF MASS SPYING IN AMERICA<\/b><\/p>\n

PART 3 \u00a0POLICE STATE: DOMESTIC FOUNDATION OF EMPIRE<\/span><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

6 FABRICATING TERROR CONSPIRACIES IN DEFENSE OF THE POLICE STATE
\n7 THE RISE OF THE POLICE STATE AND THE ABSENCE \u00a0OF MASS OPPOSITION
\n8 PRESIDENTIAL RULE BY DECEPTION :THE MASTER CON-MAN
\n9 THE TWO FACES OF THE POLICE STATE<\/b><\/p>\n

PART 4 THE POWER OF ISRAEL IN THE UNITED STATES<\/span><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

10 ISRAEL BUYS THE US CONGRESS
\n11 OBAMA WITH ISRAEL AND AGAINST THE WORLD
\n12 FIFTEEN MINUTES AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT
\n13 ISRAEL\u2019S WILLING EXECUTIONERS: AIPAC INVADES WASHINGTON
\n14 THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN JEWISH CHARITIES<\/b><\/p>\n

PART 5 IMPERIAL AND ZIONIST WARS AND TERROR IN THE MIDDLE EAST:PALESTINE,
\nIRAN,SYRIA AND YEMEN<\/span><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

15 ISRAELI TERROR: THE \u201cFINAL SOLUTION \u201cTO THE PALESTINIAN QUESTION
\n16 OBAMA AT THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY: SACRIFICING PALESTINE FOR CAMPAIGN\u00a0FUNDS
\n17 ISRAELI BOMBERS :AL QAEDA\u2019S AIR FORCE
\n18 THE BLOODY ROAD TO DAMASCUS :THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE\u2019S WAR ON A SOVEREIGN\u00a0STATE
\n19 SAUDI ARABIA: \u00a0A RETROGRADE RENTIER DICTATORSHIP AND GLOBAL TERRORISM
\n20 IRAN-US INTERIM AGREEMENT
\n21 THE ASSASSINATION OF ANWAR al AWLAKI \u00a0BY DECREE
\n<\/b>
\nPART 6 CONCLUSION<\/span><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

22 OLIGARCHS, DEMAGOGUES AND \u201cMASS REVOLTS\u201d\u2026 AGAINST DEMOCRACY<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

James Petras<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

<\/b>THE \u00a0POLITICS OF EMPIRE.\u00a0<\/span><\/b>The US, Israel and the\u00a0<\/span><\/b>Middle East<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

2014<\/b>\u00a0\/ 196 pp. \/\u00a0$18.95<\/b><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

James Petras is a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at\u00a0<\/span>Binghamton\u00a0<\/span>University,\u00a0<\/span>New York.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

He is the author of 6<\/span>4<\/span>\u00a0books\u00a0<\/span>published in 29 languages,\u00a0<\/span>and\u00a0<\/span>over 560\u00a0<\/span>articles in\u00a0<\/span>professional journals, including the American\u00a0<\/span>Sociological\u00a0<\/span>Review, British\u00a0<\/span>Journal of Sociology, Social Research, Journal\u00a0<\/span>of\u00a0<\/span>Contemporary\u00a0<\/span>Asia, and Journal of\u00a0<\/span>Peasant Studies. He\u00a0<\/span>has published over\u00a0<\/span>2000 articles in\u00a0<\/span>nonprofessional journals\u00a0<\/span>such as the New York Times, the\u00a0<\/span>Guardian, the Nation,\u00a0<\/span>Christian Science Monitor,\u00a0<\/span>Foreign Policy, New Left\u00a0<\/span>Review,\u00a0<\/span>Partisan Review,\u00a0<\/span>Temps Moderne, Le Monde\u00a0<\/span>Diplomatique,\u00a0<\/span>and his\u00a0<\/span>commentary is widely carried on\u00a0<\/span>the internet. His\u00a0<\/span>publishers\u00a0<\/span>have included\u00a0<\/span>Random House, John Wiley,\u00a0<\/span>Westview,\u00a0<\/span>Routledge, Macmillan, Verso,\u00a0<\/span>Zed\u00a0<\/span>Books and Pluto\u00a0<\/span>Books.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Some recent\u00a0<\/span>titles include \u00a0<\/span>Unmasking\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Globalization:\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Imperialism of the\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Twenty-First\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Century<\/span><\/i>\u00a0(2001); co-author T<\/span>he\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Dynamics of\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Social\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Change in Latin America (2000),\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Unmasking Globalisation<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span>(2001),\u00a0<\/span>System in Crisis<\/span><\/i>\u00a0(2003), co-author Social\u00a0<\/span>Movements\u00a0<\/span>and State Power\u00a0<\/span>(2003),\u00a0<\/span>Empire With Imperialism<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span>(2005, co-<\/span>author),\u00a0<\/span>Multinationals on\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Trial<\/span><\/i>\u00a0(2006). His most\u00a0<\/span>recent title<\/span>s<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>The Power of Israel in\u00a0<\/span><\/i>the United States<\/span><\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Rulers and Ruled in the United States<\/span><\/i>\u00a0(Clarity\u00a0<\/span>Press, Inc.\u00a0<\/span>2006),\u00a0<\/span>ha<\/span>v<\/span>e<\/span>\u00a0been\u00a0<\/span>acquired for Japanese, German, Italian,\u00a0<\/span>Indonesian and Arabic editions.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

He\u00a0<\/span>received his B.A. from Boston\u00a0<\/span>University and Ph.D. from the\u00a0<\/span>University\u00a0<\/span>of\u00a0<\/span>California at\u00a0<\/span>Berkeley.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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