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Titre Le nouvel ordre impérial ou la mondialisation de l'Empire états-unien
Auteur Gilbert Achcar
Mir@bel Revue Actuel Marx
Numéro no 33, mars 2003 Le nouvel ordre impérial
Rubrique / Thématique
Dossier
Page 15-24
Résumé anglais The New Imperial Order : the Globalization of the U.
S. Empire. It took the U.S. one century to extend their « manifest destiny » from North America to the whole world. In the aftermath of the Cold War, there still seemed to be a red line that the U.S. global empire could not tread easily, represented by the former boundaries of the ex-USSR. After September 11, this red line has been wiped out: U.S. military bases have been established in the heart of the former Soviet Union. The U.S., which acts as the enforcer of capitalist globalization, has widened the gap between its military power and the rest of the world. Thus it can now envisage to establish a quasi-direct colonial rule in Baghdad in contrast with 1991 when it allowed Saddam Hussein to remain in power under embargo and scrutiny for lack of an alternative suitable to its interests.
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