Prof Callinicos & Prof Panitch: The American Empire in Light of the Global Crisis, SOAS
Channel: SOAS University of London
Date: 2013-04-11

This Globalisation Lecture entitled "The American Empire in Light of the Global Crisis" was given by Professor Alex Callinicos and Professor Leo Panitch on 25 November 2009 at SOAS, University of London.

Further information about this lecture: http://goo.gl/D0Vyt
Further information about studying globalisation and development studies at SOAS, University of London: http://www.soas.ac.uk/development/

About the speakers:
Alex Callinicos, was born in Zimbabwe. After teaching political philosophy for many years at the University of York, he is now Professor of European Studies at King's College London. His most recent books are The Resources of Critique and Imperialism and Global Political Economy. His next book, Bonfire of the Illusions: The Twin Cities of the Liberal World, will appear early next year.

Leo Panitch is the Senior Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy and Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto, and the co-editor of The Socialist Register. His most recent books are American Empire and the Political Economy of Global Finance and Renewing Socialism: Transforming Democracy, Strategy and Imagination.