Capitalism is going senile. Its ambition is now restricted to maintaining the wealth of the wealthy in the world, while the poor are demonised as the enemy. In this volume, Samir Amin presents a synoptic view of capitalism's future.

An account of Europe's initiatives to change its relations with the Arab Mediterranean countries

An analysis of the increasingly differentiated regions of the South and Eastern and Western Europe. The author integrates his economic arguments about the nature of the crisis with political arguments based on his vision of human history as the product of social response to material realities.

Rejecting the dominant Eurocentric view of world history, which narrowly and incorrectly posits a progression from the Greek and Roman classical world to Christian feudalism and the European capitalist system, Amin presents a sweeping reinterpretation that emphasises the crucial historical role played by the Arab Islamic world.

As the global economic crisis raises alarm - not least for its likely effects on overseas development assistance - this book offers a critical analysis of aid to Africa from the diverse perspectives of African academics and activists.

This short book includes studies of capitalism in the ancient world system, central Asia's place in it, the challenge of globalisation, Europe and China's two roads to development, and Russia in the global system.

Amin explores the systemic crisis of capitalism after two decades of neoliberal globalisation and examines the attempts by the US, Europe and Japan to dominate the South through intensifying military intervention. He proposes an alternative strategy allowing for a more humane society through forces in the North and in the South working together.

The capitalist state in the peripheries is unable to provide a basis for further development, it can only worsen inequalities. This means that the world needs to be remade on the basis of an alternative social system that delinks the South from the North and builds on South-South solidarity.