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Dilemmas of domination : the unmaking of the American empire
- Title
- Dilemmas of domination : the unmaking of the American empire / Walden Bello.
- Author
- Bello, Walden F.
- Publication
- New York : Metropolitan Books, 2005.
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- Description
- 256 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Walden Bello punctures the myth of America's invincibility, revealing its carefully concealed contradictions. He shows how, despite the enormity of the U.S. defense budget, American forces are critically overextended - a condition bound to intensify as each local "victory" breeds simmering resistance and new confrontations elsewhere. He points to the empire's looming economic breakdown, the result of its gargantuan military costs, record-breaking deficits, and exploitative trade and investment relations with developing countries. On the political front, he warns of the disillusionment mounting around the world in response to America's failure to champion liberal democracy. Everywhere America goes, crony capitalism, gross inequalities in income, and the hostile coercion of foreign peoples undermine its pretenses of justice and inclusion, leaving embittered - and often violently vengeful - populations in its wake."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-242) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : a southern perspective on the crisis of the empire -- Ch. 1. The road to Baghdad -- Ch. 2. Imperial hubris/imperial overextension -- Ch. 3. Contemporary capitalism's classic crisis -- Ch. 4. The ascendancy of finance -- Ch. 5. The economics of antidevelopment -- Ch. 6. The south rises, and the north prevails -- Ch. 7. George W. Bush and rollback economics -- Ch. 8. Crisis of legitimacy -- Conclusion : the way forward.
- ISBN
- 0805074023
- LCCN
- 2004056106
- 9780805074024
- OCLC
- ocm56096471
- SCSB-5160744
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries