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After the end of America's longest (20-year) war in Afghanistan and Iraq that cost more than $6 trillion and nearly half a million lives, what does the future hold for America and the American people in the 21st century? In this timely and important book, Berch Berberoglu provides an eye-opening account of the history of the American Empire from its inception to the present, with prospects for its future. Examining the worldwide expansion of the American Empire over the course of its turbulent history in great detail, Berberoglu assesses America's imperial legacy in a sober way, highlighting its failure to come to terms with the enormous cost of this adventure in imperial overreach. But Berberoglu sees light at the end of the long, dark tunnel, when the American people will awaken and lead the way to a new America after empire in the coming decades of the 21st century.

"After the end of America's longest (20-year) war in Afghanistan and Iraq that cost more than $6 trillion and nearly half a million lives, what does the future hold for America and the American people in the 21st century? In this timely and important book, Berch Berberoglu provides an eye-opening account of the history of the American Empire from its inception to the present, with prospects for its future. Examining the worldwide expansion of the American Empire over the course of its turbulent history in great detail, Berberoglu assesses America's imperial legacy in a sober way, highlighting its failure to come to terms with the enormous cost of this adventure in imperial overreach. But Berberoglu sees light at the end of the long, dark tunnel, when the American people will awaken and lead the way to a new America after empire in the coming decades of the 21st century"--

"As the crisis of neoliberal global capitalism unfolds, and as we move to the brink of another economic disaster and the threat of war, global capitalism is once again resorting to authoritarianism and fascism to maintain its power. This book addresses this vital question in comparative-historical perspective and provides a series of case studies that include Russia, China, India, Turkey, the Philippines, Poland, Hungary, and other states in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, as well as the United States, and serves as a warning against the impending rise of fascism across the world in the 21st century"--

This handbook on social movements, revolution, and social transformation analyzes people?s struggles to bring about social change in the age of globalization. It examines the origins, nature, dynamics, and challenges of such movements as they aim to change dominant social, economic, and political institutions and structures across the globe. Departing from a theoretical introduction that explores major classical and contemporary theories of social movements and transformation, the contributions collected here use a class-based approach to examine key cases of social movements, rebellions, and revolutions worldwide from the turn of the twentieth to the early twenty-first centuries. Against this wide-ranging background, the handbook concludes by charting the varied and competing future developments and trajectories of social movements, revolutions, and social transformations.

Preface -- Introduction -- Classical social theory -- Hegel on dialectics, the state, and society -- Marx and Engels on social class and class struggle -- Durkheim on society and social order -- Weber on bureaucracy, power, and social status -- Pareto, Mosca, and Michels on elites and masses -- Simmel on social relations and group affiliations -- Cooley and mead on human nature and society -- Freud on the development of society and civilization -- Adams and early women social theorists -- Veblen on the leisure class and conspicuous consumption -- Mannheim on ideology and utopia -- Gramsci and Lenin on ideology, the state, and revolution -- Kollontai on class, gender, and patriarchy -- Du Bois and Frazier on race, class, and social emancipation -- Contemporary social theory -- Parsons, Merton, and functionalist theory -- Mills on the power elite -- Domhoff on the power structure and the governing class -- Althusser, Poulantzas, and Miliband on politics and the state -- Trimberger, Block, and Skocpol and neo-weberian theorizing -- Homans on social exchange -- The Frankfurt school of critical theory -- Goffman and Garfinkel on dramaturgy, ethnomethodology, and everyday life -- Wilson and Willie on race, class, and poverty -- Feminist theory : yesterday and today -- Wallerstein and world-systems theory -- Theories of globalization -- Therborn and Szymanski on contemporary marxist theory -- Foucault on the diffusion of power -- Harvey and Callinicos on postmodernism and its critique -- Social movements and transformation -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author

ch. 1. Conventional theories of the state -- ch. 2. Marxist theories of the state -- ch. 3. The origins and development of the state -- ch. 4. The development of the capitalist state -- ch. 5. The crisis of the advanced capitalist state -- ch. 6. The state in the less-developed countries -- ch. 7. The state, social movements, and revolution on a global scale -- ch. 8. Conclusion.

1. The contours of the Marxist debate on the global capitalist crisis / David Thurston Martin -- 2. The global capitalist crisis : its origins, dynamics, and impact on the United States / Berch Berberoglu -- 3. "The great recession" of 2008 and the continuing global capitalist crisis / William I. Robinson -- 4. The global financial crisis : a crisis of capital or for labor? / James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer -- 5. The global capitalist crisis and the 2008 financial meltdown in the United States / Levin Welch -- 6. The impact of the global capitalist crisis on the Eurozone / David L. Elliott -- 7. Japan's long stagnation and the global capitalist crisis : the onset of inter-state rivalry? / Bill Lucarelli -- 8. The continuing global capitalist crisis and the transition to state neoliberalism in China / Alvin So -- 9. Russia and the global capitalist crisis / David M. Kotz -- 10. Latin America and the epochal crisis of capitalism / Luis Arizmendi and Gordon Welty -- 11. "Africa rising" or Africans uprising? : the impact of the global capitalist crisis on Africa / Patrick Bond -- 12. The structural crisis of global capitalism and the prospects for world revolution in the twenty-first century / Chris Chase-Dunn and Anthony Roberts -- 13. The global capitalist crisis and the end of empire / Martin Orr.

Berberoglu brings together experts on the contemporary global capitalist political economy who are able to shed light on the inner workings of global capitalism and the capitalist globalization process that has led to the growth and development of capitalism from the national to the global level. This book makes an important contribution to understanding the underlying causes of the current global economic crisis and show the way out of this crisis by way of a powerful critique of the global capitalist system.

This book examines the development and transformation of global capitalism in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.