Incoherent EmpireVerso, 2003 - Всего страниц: 278 In this book noted sociologist Michael Mann argues that the "new American imperialism" is actually a new militarism. Dissecting the military, economic, and political resources of the US, Mann concludes they are so lacking in comparison to earlier empires, and so uneven, as to generate only an incoherent empire and increasing world disorder. The US is a military giant, better at devastating than pacifying countries. It is a political schizophrenic, split between multilateralism, unilateralism, and an actual inability to rule over foreign lands or control its own supposed client states. It is only a back-seat driver of the global economy, not steering but prodding poorer countries toward an unproductive and unpopular neoliberalism. Finally, it is an ideological phantom, proclaiming attractive values of freedom, democracy, and material plenty to the world, which its militarism brutally contradicts. The incoherent Empire is also analysed in action—in Afghanistan, in the war against terrorism, and against 'rogue states', especially North Korea and Iraq. Its strategies seemed doomed only to create more international terrorists and increase the desire of the rogues to acquire weapons of mass destruction; they also provoke a virtual 'crusade' against Muslims. The world will become more and more dangerous, argues Mann, unless the US abandons this trajectory and adopts the more realistic global leadership strategies laid out in this book. |
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... WMDs . The only problem is how do we get from here to there . If the main incentive to acquire WMDs is fear of other states , an effective anti - proliferation policy might be to reduce and not increase their sense of being threa- tened ...
... WMDs . The only problem is how do we get from here to there . If the main incentive to acquire WMDs is fear of other states , an effective anti - proliferation policy might be to reduce and not increase their sense of being threa- tened ...
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... WMDs . More anti - proliferation teeth might be necessary , but only the US can provide them , yet the US bites selectively , encouraging threatened states to acquire WMDs . So all four alternatives have problems . I explore them ...
... WMDs . More anti - proliferation teeth might be necessary , but only the US can provide them , yet the US bites selectively , encouraging threatened states to acquire WMDs . So all four alternatives have problems . I explore them ...
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... WMDs , the neighbors still did not back it . This was because they feared the aftermath of invasion more than they feared Saddam and his WMDs . They worried firstly that shaking up the ethnic balance in Iraq would spill over their own ...
... WMDs , the neighbors still did not back it . This was because they feared the aftermath of invasion more than they feared Saddam and his WMDs . They worried firstly that shaking up the ethnic balance in Iraq would spill over their own ...
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ONE THE MILITARY GIANT | 18 |
TWO THE ECONOMIC BACKSEAT DRIVER | 49 |
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