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Discussions on the changing forms of imperialism have retained their relevance in the face of stupendous upheavals of the world economy and geopolitics since the 1970s. This article aims to contribute to these discussions from the perspective of the monopoly-capital school. In the first place, I analyse the stagnating nature of US monopoly capitalism since the 1970s using data obtained from primary sources. In the second, I assess the growing importance of NGO-isation for imperialist interventions geared toward advancing the global interests of monopoly capitalism. My findings suggest that monopoly capitalism cannot extricate itself from the trap of stagnation, economic crisis, and inequality despite soaring profit and monopolisation levels under neoliberalism. This situation forces US imperialism to increasingly rely on military aggression, media manipulation, and colonisation of...
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Gürcan, E.C. (2021). Monopoly-Capitalist Imperialism and the Non-profit Industrial Complex. In: Ness, I., Cope, Z. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29901-9_245
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