Global Depression and Regional Wars

Petras provides clear insight into how the depression and regional wars that originated in Washington and on Wall Street are spreading throughout the world, demolishing the ideology of free market neo-liberalism and forcing to the forefront the need for structural changes. This book exposes the unsustainability of the United States military-driven empire building based on a volatile speculative economy, and influenced by Zionist policy markers committed to the colonialist state of Israel, irrespective of US interests. It offers a critical study of the decline of the US empire, its causes, ramification, and possible future outcomes. The collapse of the capitalist free market and the need for large-scale, long-term interventions by the state have once again raised the question of whose interest states are presently promoting, and how the interests of the world s people might be better pursued.

Author: James Petras
Publisher: Clarity Press
Published: 09/10/2013
Pages: 234
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d
ISBN: 9780932863683

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2010 pg. 180

About the Author
Petras, James: - JAMES PETRAS is a Bartle Professor ( Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York. He is the author of 64 books published in 29 languages, and over 560 articles in professional journals, including the American Sociological Review, British Journal of Sociology, Social Research, and Journal of Peasant Studies. He has published over 2000 articles in nonprofessional journals such as the New York Times, the Guardian, the Nation, Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Policy, New Left Review, Temps Moderne, Le Monde Diplomatique, and his commentary is widely carried on the internet. He is winner of a Life Time Career Award of the American Sociology Association, Marxist Section, the Robert Kenny Award for Best Book, 2002, and the Best Dissertation, Western Political Science Association in 1968.

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