The New American Imperialism

Book flyer
MS Word
International
MS Word

The New American Imperialism Bush's War on Terror and Blood for Oil

Vassilis K. Fouskas, Bülent Gökay

Foreword by Peter Gowan

Book Code: C8476

ISBN: 0-275-98476-1

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98476-2

DOI:

272 pages, N/A

Praeger Security International General Interest-Cloth

Publication: 10/30/2005

List Price: $51.95 (UK Sterling Price: £29.95)

Availability: In Stock

Media Type: Hardcover

Also Available: Ebook

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

Subjects:

Reviews:

Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty.
—Choice April 2006

Endorsement From Dan Plesch
Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London: This timely and insightful work provides a provocative analysis of the dynamics of U.S. power in the age of the 'War on Terror' and the 'Export of Freedom.'
Endorsement From Leo Panitch
Professor of Politics
University of York, Canada: A stimulating and important contribution.
Endorsement From Donald Sassoon
Professor of Comparative European History
Queen Mary, University of London: An innovative and challenging book, essential to understanding Washington's New World Order.
Endorsement From Cornel West
Princeton University: This is a brilliant and courageous analysis of the present-day American Empire that we ignore at our own peril.

Description: When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the Cold War slowly gave way to a new world order in which the United States was left as the lone superpower. But the organizing principle that would characterize the early 21st century was as yet unclear, until the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Now it is clear that the long war on Communism has been replaced by a perpetual "war on terror." Regardless of how long American troops remain in Iraq, and irrespective of further military actions, George W. Bush will continue to be a wartime president whose foreign policy is dominated by the Pentagon. And yet, the authors argue, this neo-imperialistic phase, with its emphasis on Eurasian oil supplies, is but the latest development in a line of thinking and acting in the world that was established by such men as Dean Acheson and Paul Nitze after World War II. But 2005 is not 1945, and the United States, despite Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney's assertions, is not liberating Iraq and Afghanistan in the same way that U.S. forces liberated Germany and Japan; it is not reconstructing Iraq or the former Yugoslavia as it did when it rebuilt war torn western Europe with the Marshall Plan. The United States, with its thinly stretched military and deficit-laden economy, does not possess the means to do so today. Instead, the authors maintain, the United States is simply depleting the developing world's natural resources, compelling the rest of the developed world to remain dependent on American management of the global economy. This situation is ultimately untenable, the authors argue, and as a result, the United States is entering a period of deep crisis. The best thing for American neo-imperialists to do to avert their worst nightmare--a strategic and economic alliance among Europe, Russia, China, and OPEC--would be to arrange for the orderly withdrawal of American power before it is too late for the human and environmental security of the world as a whole.

LC Card Number: 2005017487

LCC Class: JZ1480

Dewey Class: 327


All rights reserved. Copyright © 1999-2009 Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. 88 Post Road West, Westport CT 06881, (203) 226-3571