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Argues that theories of globalization should shift their focus from the ideologies of capitalism & the market to explore the development of the world imperialist system. The dynamics of & contradictions in this development are examined, highlighting structural differentials between dominant & dominated countries. A critical dimension of imperialism -- international seigniorage -- is discussed, offering the struggle between the dollar & the Euro as an example of interimperialist rivalries. The class structure emerging from these developments is examined, identifying the creation of a "world bourgeoisie" & "world proletariat" existing alongside their national counterparts. K. Hyatt Stewart

Contends that Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri's Empire (2000) lacks an adequate accounting of the functioning of international law, focusing on the legal dimensions of the apparently emergent new form of imperialism & the World Bank. To understand Hardt & Negri's notion of Empire, three key characteristics of it, per the authors, are discussed: it is new, is decentered & deterritorialized, & emphasizes totality. In looking at the World Bank's two most recent publications of the World Development Report, difficulties related to the emphasis on deterritorialization & totality are elaborated on & how they depend on & reproduce a static & positivistic conception of law is demonstrated. In addition, an emergent international legal imperialism that Hardt & Negri do not address is exposed. At issue is the disempowering naturalization of the market & the incorrect assertion that nation &, thus, sovereignty are in decline. While World Bank practices appear at first blush to resonate with "empirial" modes of power, such practices actually depend on a kind of modern rather than postmodern sovereignty. Hardt & Negri's unidirectional & positivist conception of the relationship between law, states, & markets, wherein they eschew the potency of the myth of the rule of law, its link to nation, & in turn international law, hides the mechanisms by which the World Bank & other multilateral economic institutions construct the current empirial world order. J. Zendejas

Argues that theories of globalization should shift their focus from the ideologies of capitalism & the market to explore the development of the world imperialist system. The dynamics of & contradictions in this development are examined, highlighting structural differentials between dominant & dominated countries. A critical dimension of imperialism -- international seigniorage -- is discussed, offering the struggle between the dollar & the Euro as an example of interimperialist rivalries. The class structure emerging from these developments is examined, identifying the creation of a "world bourgeoisie" & "world proletariat" existing alongside their national counterparts. K. Hyatt Stewart

Discusses the multifaceted ways in which imperialism shaped the environments of Third World cultures, drawing on communication literature. The impact of Western religions, educational practices, administrative organizations, languages, travel & tourism, & technology on Third World cultures is documented. It is suggested that imperialism was a major diffuser of modernity; however, this diffusion was a double-edged sword in that it influenced both Western states & the regions they colonized. In the Third World, this process has produced a double alienation, as local peoples have become alienated from their own cultural heritages & the metropolitan cultures of the West. Not all of these forces are evident in every culture, but together they compose the major elements of imperialism; more research is needed to determine their precise impact on local cultures. D. M. Smith

The removal of the neutral mask of "globalization" has revealed the many forms of raw imperialism that lie beneath, & presents the task of identifying clearly what the capitalist form of imperialism is about, particularly the US form that moved from multilateral neoliberalism to the unilateral militarism & neoconservatism of the current administration. Capitalist imperialism is analyzed as a contradictory fusion of the territorial logic by use of state power & capitalist logic that is derived from the market driven processes of accumulation in space and time. The irreducibility of these logics one to another as identified by Arendt are related the cumulative relation of property to the accumulation of power. Further analysis of the two logics identifies crises of over accumulation, & the chronic instability of democracy in the US. The disadvantages of Marx's assumptions underlying his general theory of capital accumulation are related to the dual neoliberal mantras of privatization & commodification. The move from consent to coercion in the Washington Consensus has shaped the politics focus increasingly on resistance to accumulation by dispossession as the nexus of inaction. Although imperialist projects of this sort rarely lasts, the short run results prove catastrophic if not suicidal for countries & peoples. In the face of this, it is imperative that the global justice movement join with an antiwar movement to set up different rules of international engagement. References. J. Harwell