The New Imperialism? On Continuity and Change in US Foreign Policy

Jim Glassman
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Jim Glassman: Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, 217 - 1984 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2, Canada

Environment and Planning A, 2005, vol. 37, issue 9, 1527-1544

Abstract: The unilateral militarism of the George W Bush administration has rekindled interest in imperialism within geography and elsewhere in the social sciences, leading some authors to refer to a new imperialism, or neo-imperialism. This paper critically interrogates the notion that the foreign policy of this administration represents a significant break from past US practices, with the use of concepts from Gramsci and Poulantzas to analyze the class and class-fractional bases of US foreign policy both during and after the Cold War. It is argued that there are certain important continuities in contemporary US imperialism and that there are also differences that owe to the present, post-Cold-War context. It is suggested that if this analysis of continuities is correct then the problems and dangers posed by the “new imperialism†may not be as readily resolvable within a capitalist framework as is suggested by various contemporary commentators.

Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1068/a37157

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