POL 4190:  SENIOR SEMINAR:
THE FUTURE OF THE UNITED STATES
Spring 2004

Notes on:

Samir Amin (2003)  Obsolescent Capitalism:  Contemporary Politics and Global Disorder

Samir Amin

  According to Palgrave Macmillan, his publisher,

Samir Amin has been Director of IDEP (the United Nations African Institute for Planning) from 1970 to 1980; the Director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal; and a co-founder of the World Forum for Alternatives.

According to Eurozine, on the other hand,

Samir Amin was born 1931 in Egypt. Educated in Paris. Amin is one of the most important Neo-Marxian thinkers, in development theory as well as in the relativistic-cultural critique of social sciences. He is director of Forum du Tiers Monde in Dakar, Senegal. His numerous books include Eurocentrism (1988), L'empire du chaos (Empire of Chaos, 1991) and Au-delà du capitalisme (Spectres of Capitalism, 1998).

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