Imperial Overstretch - Burbach, Roger

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Auteur(s) : Burbach, Roger - Tarbell, Jim

Editeur : Bloomsbury 3pl

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/08/2004

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 252

Expédition : 295

Dimensions : 20.2 x 13.2 x 1.8

ISBN : 9781842774960

Résumé :

1. Bush and the Costs of the New American Imperium
2. Empire as the American Way of Life
3. The 'American Century'
4. The Rise of the Bush People
5. The Making of George Bush
6. The Politics of Fear: Bush Hijacks September 11
7. The Doctrine of Pre-emptive War and the Iraqi Debacle
8. Imperial Overstretch: An American Exit?
Bibliography
Index

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Biographie:

Roger Burbach is Director of Research and Publication at the Center for the Study of the Americas (CENSA) in Berkeley, California. A historian by training, he was for a number of years a staff member and writer with NACLA, the North American Congress on Latin America. During the 1990s he was Visiting Scholar in Peace and Conflict Studies, and subsequently at the Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of numerous books, including most recently The Pinochet Affair: State Terrorism and Global Justice (Zed Books, 2003), Globalization and Postmodern Politics: Zapatistas versus High Tech Robber Barons (2001) and Globalize This! The Battle against the World Trade Organization (2000) (edited with Kevin Danaher). He coauthored with Orlando Noez Fire in the Americas (1987).

Jim Tarbell is a writer and broadcaster based in Northern California. Following spells as a staffer for Congressman Wendell Wyatt (1968-72) and Peace Corps volunteer (1973-75), he founded his own publishing house, Ridge Times Press, in 1981. Amongst many other activities, he is now the editor of the Alliance for Democracy quarterly journal Alliance Alerts, and co-hosts a radio programme on KZYX called Corporations and Democracy. He is the author of a previous book, I Came Not Alone (1994), which tells of ordinary people's experiences of globalization in Latin America, and is currently working on a new book, Democracy versus Empire.

Sommaire:
George W. Bush has fundamentally changed America's place in the world. In some neo-conservative circles the word 'empire' is back in fashion, and a great republic that broke away from the British empire is now supposed to be proud of its new imperial role. This book explains how the neo-conservatives and the petro-military complex have hijacked US foreign policy. It examines the price that Americans will have to pay for this new era of unlimited US military might - a never ending fear of terrorism...