The US and Latin America. Changing contours of empire: Hierarchy, networks and clients

Abstract

In this study the diverse forms of the empire and imperialism in the contemporary and global context are analyzed, distinguishing the political processes of domination from the central states towards other peripheral states through intense neoliberal reforms. On the one hand, the imperialistic action of the United States and the European states and the relations that these establish with the states clients and opposites of Latin America and the Caribbean, Oriente. medio and Asia are reviewed. On the other hand, when studying the history of imperialism in the last decades, demonstrates that this form of the policy is not the sufficiently strong thing as to hide its interventionism or to avoid social movements able to resist the growth of the same one.