New Developments in Imperialism Akira Kudo Content Description This book analyzes the current state of US-Japan economic relations, using the latest data to meticulously examine the military agreements and foreign aid of major monopolistic capitalist countries towards developing countries. Furthermore, it explores the dominance of multinational corporations and the contradictions between the world integration centered on multinational corporations and the economies of individual nations. Table of Contents 1. The Current Economic Situation and Its Basic Perspectives (Perspectives on US-Japan Economic Relations - How to view America's deficit and Japan's surplus; Conditions for industrial hollowing out; Intensification of contradictions in the world capitalist economy; Directions for fundamental change) 2. Issues Related to the New Developments in Imperialism - US-Japan Economic Cooperation, Foreign Aid, and Multinational Corporations (The Development of "US-Japan Economic Cooperation" under the US-Japan Security Treaty - Its Prototype and Characteristics; Military Agreements and Official Development Assistance; Mutual Penetration of Multinational Corporations and the Western Alliance) 3. Marxist Economics and the Present Age - The Recommendation of Reading the Classics New Developments in Imperialism by Akira Kudo