Product Description: The Politics of Agrarian Refor m in Brazi l examines the interrelationships among peasant mobilization, agrarian reform and co-operativism in contemporary Brazil.

Product Description: In a primary commodities boom spurred on by the rise of China, countries the world over are turning to the extraction of natural resources and export of primary commodities as an antidote to the global recession. The New Extractivism addresses a fundamental dilemma faced by these governments: to pursue, or not, a development strategy based on resource extraction in the face of immense social and environmental costs, not to mention mass resistance from the people negatively affected by it?With fresh insight and analysis from Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Columbia and Mexico, this book looks at the political dynamics of capitalist development when the neoliberal model is collapsing under the weight of a resistance movement lead by peasant farmers and indigenous communities...read more

Product Description: This book analyses the progress and failures of capitalist development against the backdrop of an increasingly globalised world economy organised on neoliberal principles. It brings together eminent writers on the political economy of international development such as Kari Polanyi-Levitt, Norman Girvan, Osvaldo Sunkel, Paul Bowles, Manfred Bienefeld and Walden Bellos, to examine from a critical perspective the contemporary dynamics of a system in crisis--issues of capitalist development and globalization within the neoliberal world order...read more

Product Description: We live in a time of dynamic, but generally regressive regime change-a period in which major political transformations and a rollback of a half-century of legislation are accelerated under conditions of a prolonged and deepening economic crisis and a worldwide offensive against the citizenry and the working class...read more

Product Description: Poverty is still widespread in Latin America, in spite of over five decades of international development efforts to eradicate it. While some progress was made during the first decade of the new Millennium, at least until the onset of the global food and economic crises, there are still over one hundred and eighty million people in the region who unable to meet their basic needs...read more

Product Description: This handbook provides a clear and accessible introduction to the groundbreaking and interdisciplinary new field of critical development studies.Each short chapter is written by a well-known specialist and provides a succinct discussion of central issues in the field...read more

Product Description: The authors provide new perspectives on how we should think about globalization, its impacts and forms of resistance and response. Twelve regional chapters, encompassing all of the major regions of the world, provide a global dialogue and reveal the varied meanings and effects of globalization...read more

Product Description: Book by James Petras , Henry Veltmeyer

Product Description: Until its recent revival the term ‘imperialism‘ had virtually disappeared from academic and political discourse. Today, however, the notion of imperialism, particularly regarding the aggressive projection of state power by the Bush administration, has been put back on the agenda...read more

Beautiful edition of Marx and Engels' classic manifesto, introduced by renowned social theorist David Harvey.

Product Description: Published Under the Garamond ImprintGlobalization appears inevitable and inescapable in its effects, all countries and people having to adjust to an irresistible force the best way they can—to insert themselves into the process under the most favourable conditions, or to make the best deal possible with a single global economy based on capitalist principles...read more

Globalisation can be seen to provide the context for epoch-defining changes in social and economic forms of organisation. However, it has also changed the context for and the organisational forms of politics, unleashing forces in support of, and in opposition to, the globalisation dynamic. This text examines the dynamics of change and development in two regions of the world economy, Latin America and Asia, and is a series of explorations into the forces, their political dynamics, and the responses of governments and citizens. The focus of the explorations, and regional case studies, is on the role of the nation-state, international organisations and social movements.

Product Description: Mounting hostility to the hegemony of the United States; tumbling stock markets; environmental destruction; sluggish economic growth, unprecedented income inequality, and growing poverty: something fundamental is wrong, argue Petras and Veltmayer...read more