Naked Imperialism

Naked Imperialism: The U.S. Pursuit of Global Dominance is a 2006 book by John Bellamy Foster. In the book Foster explains that, since September 11, 2001, the United States has waged wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, expanded the global reach of its military base system, and increased the level of its military spending. In his analysis, U.S. militarism and imperialism have deep roots in U.S. history and the political-economic logic of capitalism. The apparent objective of the imperialist system of today (as in the past) is to open up peripheral economies to investment from core capitalist countries, thus ensuring both a continual supply of raw materials at low prices, and a net outflow of economic surplus from periphery to center of the world system.