[lbo-talk] 'Empire' after Iraq

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Jul 28 10:40:43 PDT 2003


James Heartfield wrote:


>The contributors to a new collection '"Empire" and US Imperialism'
>take issue with Hardt and Negri (in Interventions: International
>Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Volume 5, no 2, 2003). New Left
>Review contributor Peter Gowan situates 'Empire' in a genre that
>generalises the experience of the Clinton presidency's foreign
>policy, with its emphasis on international cooperation. 'Yet with
>the arrival of the Bush administration and especially after 11
>September 2001, this 1990s picture of a united transatlantic axis
>seems to be rapidly weakening, if not shattering' (p220).

Hmm, well things aren't going too swimmingly for the Bushies now, and their stubborn unilateralism is part of the problem. So maybe the critique of Empire also needs a rethink.

Doug



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