Perry Anderson · Regime Change in the West?

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Your 10-digit subscription number is above your name on the address slip and begins with 400. If you subscribed via the website, you can enter the order number from your subscription confirmation email in place of your subscription number. More search Options Browse by Subject A quarter of the way through this century, regime change has become a canonical term. It signifies the overthrow, typically but not exclusively by the United States, of governments around the world disliked by the West, employing for that purpose military force, economic blockade, ideological erosion, or a combination of these. Yet originally the term meant something quite different, a widespread alteration in the West itself – not the sudden transformation of a nation-state by external violence, but the gradual installation of a new international order in peacetime. The pioneers of this conception were the American theorists who developed the idea of international regimes as arrangements assuring c

Vol. 47 No. 6 · 3 April 2025 Regime Change in the West? Perry Anderson Share on Bluesky Share on Facebook Share Email Print 7771 words A quarter  of the way through this century, regime change has become a canonical term. It signifies the overthrow, typically but not exclusively by the United States, of governments around the world disliked by the West, employing for that purpose military force, economic blockade, ideological erosion, or a combination of these. Yet originally the term meant something quite different, a widespread alteration in the West itself - not the sudden transforma

Perry Anderson · Regime Change in the West?

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