Cheap wars

Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler

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Abstract: The new conflicts of the twenty-first century – the 'infinite wars,' the 'clashes of civilization,' the 'new crusades' – are fundamentally different from the mass wars and statist military conflicts that characterized capitalism from the nineteenth century until the end of the Cold War. The novelty lies not so much in the military nature of the conflicts, as in the broader role that war now plays in capitalism.

Keywords: accumulation; capital; capitalism; crisis; differential; accumulation; distribution; elite; energy; conflict; globalization; inflation; Iraq; Israel; Keynesianism; Lebanon; Middle; East; military; spending; neo-liberalism; oil; ownership; power; prices; profit; ruling; class; TNC; United; States; violence; war; warfare; welfare; Weapondollar-Petrodollar (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E31 F23 F59 H56 N15 P16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-09
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Published in The Economy of the Occupation. A Socioeconomic Bulletin 10 (2006): pp. 1-32

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