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The global gamble : Washington's Faustian bid for world dominance

Title: The global gamble : Washington's Faustian bid for world dominance / Peter Gowan.
Author: Gowan, Peter.
Publication: London ; New York : Verso, 1999.

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xvi, 320 pages; 25 cm

Summary

In The Global Gamble, Peter Gowan argues that, since the collapse of the Soviet bloc, the US government has been pursuing an attempt to construct a global empire a unipolar world in which Washington can control and shape the pattern of economic and political change in all regions of the globe. Only by understanding this ambition can we grasp the dynamics of international politics and economics in the contemporary world. Gowan explores the origins and distinctive forms of Washington's imperial project, from the collapse of the Soviet bloc through to the Gulf War of 1991, developments in the European Union, the enlargement of NATO and East Asian financial collapse. He also explores the efforts of various neoliberal intellectuals to legitimate the American project in terms of liberalism. He concludes that the US Faustian project is almost certainly doomed to failure and unless plans are made now for such an eventuality, the world could face grave and possibly catastrophic breakdowns early in the next century.

Alternative Title

Washington's Faustian bid for world dominance

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Part. I. The Globalisation Gamble -- 1 Introduction -- 2 'Capital Markets', Financial Systems and the Postwar International Monetary System -- 3 The Dollar-Wall Street Regime -- 4 The Evolution of the DWSR from the 1970s to the 1990s -- 5 Power Politics, the DWSR and the Clinton Administration -- 6 The Politics and Economics of the Panic of '98 -- 7 Conclusions -- Part II. Politics in the Globalisation Period -- 8 The Gulf War, Iraq and Western Liberalism -- 9 The Theory and Practice of Neo-Liberalism for Eastern Europe -- 10 Neo-Liberalism and Civil Society -- 11 The Post-Communist Parties in the East -- 12 The Enlargement of NATO and the EU.

ISBN

1859848745
9781859848746
1859842712
9781859842713

LCCN

2001347022

OCLC

ocm41637098
41637098
SCSB-823668

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Princeton University Library