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URL:https://murmitoyen.com/events/vanille/udem/detail/865719-trumping-the-u
 s-empire
LOCATION:Pavillon 3744 Jean-Brillant\, 3744 Jean-Brillant\, Montréal
SUMMARY:Trumping the US Empire
DESCRIPTION:With Donald Trump’s election to the presidency\,  the Americ
 an empire’s role in the making of global capitalism has come to be chall
 enged from within rather than\, as had been so widely expected\, from with
 out. Yet insofar as there is\, in fact\, a political crisis of global capi
 talism today it is not because of the US empire’s economic decline. It i
 s because the US firmly remains at the centre of world capitalism that the
  political contradictions of globalization have taken the stark form they 
 have inside the American state.  This in turn entails new contradictions 
 for every other capitalist state\, and not only because of the pressures t
 o accommodate to US demands\, and the internal tensions this generates. It
  is also because of the implications for all states if the American state 
 cannot play the leading facilitating\, superintending and crisis-containme
 nt roles it heretofore has.  The question that is posed in this context i
 s whether the American state still has the capacity to manage global capit
 alism'
\nBiographie du conférencier:Leo Victor Panitch est professeur ém
 érite de science politique à l’Université York (Toronto) et détient 
 la Chaire de recherche du Canada en économie politique comparée. Depuis 
 1985\, il édite la revue annuelle le Socialist Register. Il est l’auteu
 r d’une centaine de livres et d’articles. Son plus récent livre\, co
 écrit avec Sam Gindin\, s’intitule The Making of Global Capitalism : th
 e political economy of american empire.
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