IntroductionPART I. RETHINKING IMPERIALISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY1. Capitalism and Imperialism: notes on an intimate relation2. Imperialism in an era of extractive capitalism3. Extractive Imperialism and the post-neoliberal state4. Imperialist dynamics of agroextractivismPART II. POLICY AND RESISTANCE DYNAMICS OF US IMPERIALISM5. US Imperialism in Latin America: Then and now6. US global power in the 21st Century: military or economic imperialism?7. Fifty years of imperial wars: results and perspectives8. Networks of empire and realignments of world power9. Paradoxes of anti-imperialism and class strugglePART III. THE VENEZUELAN PIVOT OF US IMPERIALISM10. The US and Venezuela: decades of defeats and destabilization11. The Chávez factor in US-Venezuela relations12. Obama’s imperialist offensive against VenezuelaBibliographyIndex

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