Dilemmas of domination : the unmaking of the American empire

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Title:

Author:

Bello, Walden F.

ISBN:

9781842776926

9781842776933

Personal Author:

Bello, Walden F.

Publication Information:

London : Zed Books, 2005.

Physical Description:

256 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

A Southern perspective on the crisis of the empire -- The road to Baghdad -- Imperial hubris/Imperial overextension -- Contemporary capitalism's classic crisis -- The ascendancy of finance -- The economics of antidevelopment -- The South rises, and the North prevails -- George W. Bush and rollback economics -- Crisis of legitimacy.

Subject Term:

Globalization.

Geographic Term:

United States -- Foreign economic relations.

United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-

United States -- Military policy.

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Summary

The empire seems unassailable, but the empire is weak - and precisely because of its imperial ambitions. Walden Bello dissects the dilemmas confronting America in its quest for global domination. Despite the enormity of the U.S. defence budget, American forces are already overextended - and will become more so as each local 'victory' breeds simmering resistance. The empire faces looming economic breakdown, the result of its gargantuan military costs, record-breaking budget deficits, and exploitative trade and investment relations. On the political front, bitter disillusionment is spreading in response to America's failure to champion liberal democracy, crony capitalism and gross inequalities of income.

Dilemmas of Domination reveals a not-too-distant future in which the empire's hidden weaknesses will yield fatal challenges to American supremacy.