Globalization and Empire

by Hartnett, Stephen John; Stengrim, Laura Ann; Lucaites, John Louis

• ISBN13: 9780817355623
• ISBN10: 0817355626
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-04-12
• Publisher: Univ of Alabama Pr

Summary

In this careful and comprehensive study of the United Statesrs" war on Iraq, Hartnett and Stengrim offer a critique of the Bush administrationrs"s arguments for waging war, an examination of the foreign policy principles driving the war, an analysis of the economic dilemmas of globalization, and an exposeacute; of the inner workings of the reconstruction of Iraq.

Author Biography

Stephen John Hartnett is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado, Denver. He is the author of Incarceration Nation: Investigative Prison Poems of Hope and Terror and Democratic Dissent & The Cultural Fictions of Antebellum America.   Laura Ann Stengrim is an activist and independent scholar, currently living and working in Phoenix, Arizona.

Table of Contents

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