Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the War on Terror and American empire after the Cold War / Alejandro Colâas and Richard Saull -- Global capitalism and American empire / Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch -- The logic of American power in the international capitalist order / Simon Bromley -- Reactionary blowback : the uneven ends of the Cold War and the origins of contemporary conflict in world politics / Richard Saull -- The intellectual antecedents of the Bush regime / Ben O'Loughlin -- The imperial republic revisited : the United States in the era of Bush / Michael Cox -- The Bush turn and the drive for primacy / Peter Gowan -- The War on Terrorism and American empire : emerging development agendas / Susanne Soederberg -- Scenarios of power / Jan Nederveen Pieterse.

All age.