Imperial overstretch : George W. Bush and the hubris of empire
Presenting insights into the neo-conservative personalities surrounding George W. Bush, this work is a disturbing analysis of the prospects for the US presidency and its global ambitions
Print Book, English, 2004
Fernwood : Books for Change : World Book Pub. : SIRD : Spearhead : Zed Books : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, Nova Scotia, Bangalore, Beirut, Kuala Lumpur, Cape Town, London, New York, 2004
viii, 240 p. ; 20 cm.
9781842774960, 9781842774977, 9781552661406, 9788182910003, 9789953140513, 9789832535294, 9780864866592, 1842774964, 1842774972, 1552661407, 8182910005, 9953140510, 9832535298, 0864866593
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1. George W. Bush and the reality of empire. Bush and imperial overstretch
Mythology and the American empire
The empire of deceit
Militarization of the empire
Multi-polar resistance to empire
The empire confronts the republic
Rise of the 'second superpower'. 2. Empire as the American way of life. Defining empire, the American way
The foundation of the American empire
Fighting Communism
Rise of the Bushes. 3. The 'American century'. Setting the ground rules for empire
Truman: scaring the hell out of Americans
The subjection of Latin America
Seizing the prize
On revolutions and CIA groups
Counter-revolutionary warfare
Globalizing the empire
The new world order. 4. The rise of the Bush people. The movement that upended the establishment
Corporate right
Rise of the neo-cons
The next generation
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI)
Things go better with God
Republikud
Costs of empire. 5. The making of George W. Bush. The privileged American dream
Atonement
Finding his persona
The governor
Headed towards the White House
Who is this man?
The iron triangle
Oil power
A political circus. 6. The politics of fear: Bush hijacks 11 September. The open door to war
'Why do they hate us?'
The unilateral 'coalition'
The empire confronts the republic at home
The dirty war in Afghanistan
Bush and the axis of evil. 7. The drums of pre-emptive war. History of US intervention in Iraq
The oil connection
Selling the war
The intelligence war
Multilateral consensus?
The unwilling. 8. Iraq and the imperial dead-enders. Preventive war
The non-existent road map for the empire
The oblivious empire
The incompetent emperor
The mirage of an occupied 'democracy'
The counter-insurgency war. 9. The interregnum: an empire in descent confronts a world in upheaval. Economic overstretch
The interregnum
The Pentagon's corrupt spartans
The empire's new frontier
Iraq around the clock
The world in revolt
The new internationalism