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Matteo Capasso

Matteo Capasso

Professor of Middle East Studies at Northwest University (Xi'an, China); Editor-in-Chief of Middle East Critique; author of Everyday Politics in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (2023).

Jun 23, 2026

1:45
When we talk about US-led imperialism in the present context and these predations across the global south, I mean, from Venezuela to Cuba, Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, how do we understand it? Or rather, how would you characterize it today?
2:03
So once again, thank you so much for having me and thank you for waking up early to listening to my diatribe about these things.
2:12
But hopefully after all this, I will go to bed probably angry.
2:19
You will start your day.
2:20
It's going to be better on your end.
2:21
But anyway, said that, imperialism in the current context.
2:28
So I think that when we talk about imperialism, we need to think about the historical transformation that the long durée, the five centuries of Western-led accumulation have seen, have, you know... created in the world with its wars, with the colonial plunder, with the genocides across the Americas and the West Asia.

28 MINS LATER

30:41
So basically, Where would you draw the differences and points of contact when it comes to a strategic resistance against US imperialism?

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