Author: Achin Vanaik
Eminent Contributors/
Foreword/Introductio: Tariq Ali
Publisher: Tulika
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 293
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8189487221
Description
Masks of Empire assembles a series of important critiques of the new US imperialism by some of the finest minds working in contemporary political and social theory.
It aims for the first time anywhere to delineate analyse and evaluate the legitimizing discourses of the imperial agenda of the United States. By uncovering the economic conditions as well as the ideological facade of the neoliberal US regime, it exposes the various ways through which the United States seeks to extend its hegemony.
Further, it suggests how one can morally and practically address the real problems behind the smokescreen created by this empire project.
Contents
Preface
Foreword
TARIQ ALI
Introduction
ACHIN VANAIK
THE ECONOMICS OF EMPIRE
The Capitalist Conjecture: Overaccumulation, Financial Crises
and the Retreat from Globalization
WALDEN BELLO
THE IDEOLOGICAL PRECONDITIONS
Manufacturing 'Common Sense' or Cultural Hegemony for Beginners
SUSAN GEORGE
The Iron Click: American Exceptionalism and US Empire
MIKE MARQUSEE
THE IDEOLOGICAL BANNERS
Political Terrorism and the US Imperial Project
ACHAIN VANAIK
The Empire of Fear
ZIA MIAN
Humanitarian Inervention and US Hegemony: A Reconceptulaization
MARIANO AGUIRRE
'And the Name for Our Profits is Democaracy'
PHYLLIS BENNIS
Something Out There: State Weakness as an Imperial Pretext
DAVID SOGGE
The Internationalization of the War on Drugs:
Illegal Drugas as a Moral Evil and a Useful Enemy
DAVID BEWLEY TAYLOR and MARTIN JELSMA
Conclusion
ACHIN VANAIK
Contributors
Index