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 |