From Market Globalism to Imperial Globalism: Ideology and U.S. Hegemony Before and After 9-11.

The paper focuses on the question of how the dominant free-market model of globalization-a model I call globalism-has been impacted by 9/11 and the war on terrorism. Can globalism survive in our post-9/11 world? The paper makes the case that it cannot--at least not in its pre-9/11 form. In order to save at least some of its original agenda, free-market globalization is currently being transformed into a globalism with an American face-a much more imperialistic and militaristic variant than its more economistic predecessor. Military operations and ideological propaganda maneuvers have become as important-or even more important-than global trade initiatives. The paper examines and analyzes some of these ideological maneuvers. Undermining the establishment of a multilateral global community, the new globalism with an American face is instead raising the specter of an American global empire unilaterally imposed on the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]