Notes from the Editors, March 2017

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  • - The Editors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14452/MR-068-10-2017-03_0

Keywords:

Imperialism, Political Economy

Abstract

buy this issueU.S. economic, military, and financial dominance have been ebbing for decades, leaving the United States in the position of a wounded mastodon within the world at large, a threat to all around it. Washington has repeatedly tried with very limited success to reverse this slide in its hegemonic role by means of geopolitical expansion, aimed at increasing its "strategic assets" across the globe. The result has been a constantly expanding theatre of global conflict.

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2017-02-28

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Notes from the Editors