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Faruk Tabak, ed., Allies as Rivals: The U.S., Europe, and Japan in a Changing World-System Paradigm, 2007

Rethinking Nuclear Weapons

Could China be the next world hegemon? Will it collaborate with other nations to break the US grip on the rules of the global economy? John Gulick considers whether China has the resources and endowments to take over as world leader. Also, Ward Wilson argues in an essay that Japan's decision to surrender in 1945 was not compelled by the bombing of Hiroshima.

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Naomi Klein, "Obama's Chicago Boys" The Nation

AFCSME Local 3299

Nations and their people sometimes suffer a major collective trauma. Sometimes that leads to the suspension of democracy. As Naomi Klein describes in The Shock Doctrine, free-market crusaders have used situations like this to initiate a capitalist feeding frenzy. One of her case studies is Russia in the 1990s. Also, Kathryn Lybarger reports on the AFSCME strike at the University of California.

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Michael Klare speaks in Berkeley

In his new book Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet, Michael Klare argues that a global political realignment of historic proportions is under way, based on ever-more-intense competition for reliable energy supplies. Klare describes emerging Big Power alliances and rivalries in energy-rich sites like the Caspian basin and Africa.

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Tony Wood, Chechnya: The Case for Independence Verso, 2007

Tony Wood, "The Case for Chechnya" New Left Review

Is Chechnya, so often associated with lawlessness, Islamic extremism, and failed statehood, entitled to independence? Tony Wood has written about the long tradition of Chechen resistance to Russian imperial designs. He also links the most recent invasion of Chechnya with Vladimir Putin's rise to power and his authoritarian agenda.