This new study shows how the American-led war on terror has brought about the most significant shift in the contours of the international system since the end of the Cold War.

A new imperial moment is now discernible in US foreign policy in the wake of the neo-conservative rise to power in the USA, marked by the development of a fresh strategic doctrine based on the legitimacy of preventative military strikes on hostile forces across any part of the globe. Key features of this new volume include:

* an alternative, critical take on contemporary US foreign policy

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This new study shows how the American-led war on terror has brought about the most significant shift in the contours of the international system since the end of the Cold War.

A new imperial moment is now discernible in US foreign policy in the wake of the neo-conservative rise to power in the USA, marked by the development of a fresh strategic doctrine based on the legitimacy of preventative military strikes on hostile forces across any part of the globe. Key features of this new volume include:

* an alternative, critical take on contemporary US foreign policy

...

This work provides a critique of existing understandings of the Cold War prevalent in international relations, and offers an alternative perspective on the Cold War founded on a historical materialist approach. The focus of the text's argument is an analysis of what we mean by politics and international relations and how such assumptions have come to determine our understanding of the Cold War. The author focuses on the relationship between state and society. Viewed from this perspective, the state and modern conceptions of politics can be seen as products of a capitalist modernity, in which...

The Cold War is often presented as a power struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States. Richard Saull challenges this assumption. He broadens our understanding of the defining political conflict of the twentieth century by stressing the social and ideological differences between the superpowers and how these differences conditioned their international behavior.

Saull argues that U.S.-Soviet antagonism was part of a wider conflict between capitalism and communism involving states and social forces other than the superpowers. The United States was committed to containing...

This volume brings together a number of UK and non-UK-based scholars to offer an original perspective on the analysis of far-right movements and politics. The principal entry point of this volume's analysis is to challenge the existing literatures on the far-right through offering a very different methodological and theoretical perspective in examining the far-right. Thus, the approach offered in this volume is that of 'longue duree' analysis whereby the far-right is understood as a product of deeper and longer-term structures of socio-economic and political development. The far-right is seen...