27 May 2008
Military or Market-Driven Empire Building: 1950-2008
By James Petras
Picture by Carlos Latuff.
Introduction
From the middle of the 19th century but especially after the Second World War, two models of empire building competed on a world scale: One predominantly based on military conquests, involving direct invasions, proxy invading armies and subsidized separatist military forces; and the other predominantly based on large-scale, long-term [...]