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| Acknowledgments | vii | ||
| List of Abbreviations and Acronyms | xi | ||
| Introduction: Globalization, Empire, and the Productions of Violence | 1 | (39) | |
| 1. "The Whole Operation of Deception": Reconstructing President Bush's Rhetoric of Weapons of Mass Destruction | 40 | (44) | |
| 2. War Rhetorics: The National Security Strategy of the United States and President Bush's Globalizationthrough-Benevolent-Empire | 84 | (55) | |
| 3. "It is Accelerating": The Rhetorics of Globalization and the Dilemmas of U.S. Power | 139 | (73) | |
| 4. Privatizing the Empire: Globalizing Crony Capitalism and the Rhetoric of "Renewal in Iraq" | 212 | (55) | |
| Conclusion: Rhetorical Integrity and the Twilight of Democracy | 267 | (26) | |
| Appendix: Sources of Information for Scholars and Empowerment for Activists | 293 | (14) | |
| Notes | 307 | (60) | |
| Index | 367 |
