Incoherent Empire PA

by Mann,Michael

• ISBN13: 9781844675289
• ISBN10: 1844675289
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-17
• Publisher: VERSO

Summary

In thisbook, noted sociologist Michael Mann argues that the 'œnew Americanimperialism' is actually a new militarism. Dissecting the economic, political, military and ideological resources available to the US, Mann concludes that they are so uneven as to generate only an 'incoherent empire' and increasing world disorder.The US is a military giant, though it is better at devastating than pacifying countries. It is a political schizophrenic, its personality split between multilateralism, unilateralism and an actual inability to rule over foreign lands or to control its own supposed client states. It is only a backseat driver of the global economy. It cannot steer it, but it prods poorer countries toward an unproductive and unpopular neo-liberalism.

Author Biography

Michael Mann is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His major works include the prizewinning series The Sources of Social Power, Volume I: A History of Power from the Beginning to 1760 AD, and Volume II: The Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1760–1914.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Paperback Edition	vii
Preface	xxv
Introduction: The New Imperialism	1	(17)
The Military Giant	18	(31)
The Economic Back-Seat Driver	49	(31)
The Political Schizophrenic	80	(20)
The Ideological Phantom	100	(23)
The War In Afghanistan	123	(36)
The War Against (Muslim) Terrorism	159	(35)
The War Against Rogue States And North Korea	194	(12)
Iraq Attack	206	(46)
The New Militarism	252	(17)
Index	269