Contents -- Introduction: World Empire - or a World of Empires? -- The world after 9/ 11 -- The globalisation of divergence -- Origins of the age of war -- Enter the new imperialism -- Exit globalisation, pursued by an eagle -- Another world is indispensable -- 2 The Inequality of Nations -- Absolute divergence -- Absolute stagnation -- Divergence, stagnation and the end of globalisation -- The new age of competitive regionalism -- The limits of statistics -- The use and misuse of averages -- What does money buy? Purchasing power, paying power, and growth -- The statistical signifi cance of China -- The new regionalism and the political geography of divergence -- 3 The Crisis of the Globalist Project and the New Economics of George W. Bush -- The crisis of the globalist project -- Three moments of the crisis of globalisation -- The new economics of George W. Bush -- The economics and politics of overextension -- 4 Imperialist Globalisation and the Political Economy of South Asia -- Jayati Ghosh Imperialism and the global economy at the start of the twenty- fi rst century -- South Asia in the era of globalisation -- 5 Globalisation and the New World Order: The New Dynamics of Imperialism and War -- 'Globalisation': The unfettered circulation of capital -- The New World Order: The unfettered circulation of imperialist armies -- The dynamics of confl ict over Eurasia -- Conclusion: Globalism and the NWO as inherently crisis- prone processes -- 6 The Crisis of Global Capitalism: How it Looks from Latin America -- Crisis and the restructuring of world capitalism -- Latin America faces the global crisis -- Conclusions: Whither the empire of global capital? -- 7 Facing Global Apartheid -- A new political economy and geopolitics of imperialism? -- African anti- capitalisms -- The limits of elite opinion.

Breaking the chains of global financial apartheid -- Who is for and against global apartheid? -- Should movements take the state, or localise? -- Next steps: Towards a 'fifth international'? -- Appendix: Five ideological reactions to 'global apartheid' -- 8 Unity, Diversity and International Co-operation: The US War Drive and the Anti-war Movement -- 9 From Global Crisis to Neo-imperialism: The Case for a Radical Alternative -- Global mobility of capital -- High profits and after -- Back to the oil -- Euro- ambitions -- Europe and the new imperialism -- Global competition -- The struggle for Russia -- Is new reformism an answer? -- The programme of transition -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.