1. Perry Anderson's very fine & under-rated book "American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers" holds up very well in wake of Trump's victory.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
2. Anderson's core argument is there was a longstanding tension between American nationalism & its role as guaranteer of global capitalism.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
I haven't read the book but this thought in this tweet presumes "global capitalism" is antithetical to nationalism.
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Replying to @ArmandoNDK @HeerJeet
in college much of development studies treated "global capitalism " as a form of imperialism. Is imperialism contra nationalism?
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Replying to @ArmandoNDK @armandodkos
Well, USA global role isn't purely imperial one: it involves promoting system that also enriches rivals (Germany, Japan, China)
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Replying to @HeerJeet
seems you see this totally through the prism of trade. I'm not up to date on the academics on this but the reverse was argued.
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Replying to @ArmandoNDK @armandodkos
Not just trade. Same tension in military alliances. USA duties greater than what pure nationalism dictates.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Imperialism is how that was described when I was in college. Admittedly my studies focused on Latin American scholarship.
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Replying to @ArmandoNDK @HeerJeet
I do think you're on to something on the disconnect of the American Left on international class alliance. That has disappeared.
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Yep. The right has an international network (Trump, Lafarge, Le Pen, Putin). The left doesn't.
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