Dilemmas of domination : the unmaking of the American empire / Walden Bello.
Dilemmas of domination : the unmaking of the American empire / Walden Bello.
Dilemmas of domination : the unmaking of the American empire / Walden Bello.
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New York : Metropolitan Books, 2005.
Date
2005.
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N337.73/ 25
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English
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256 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Introduction : a southern perspective on the crisis of the empire -- Ch. 1. The road to Baghdad -- Ch. 2. Imperial hubris/imperial overextension -- Ch. 3. Contemporary capitalism's classic crisis -- Ch. 4. The ascendancy of finance -- Ch. 5. The economics of antidevelopment -- Ch. 6. The south rises...
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New York : Metropolitan Books, 2005.
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1st ed.
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New York (State)
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2005.
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"Walden Bello punctures the myth of America's invincibility, revealing its carefully concealed contradictions. He shows how, despite the enormity of the U.S. defense budget, American forces are critically overextended - a condition bound to intensify as each local "victory" breeds simmering resistance and new confrontations elsewhere. He points to...
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Dilemmas of domination : the unmaking of the American empire / Walden Bello.
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The American empire project.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-242) and index.
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N337.73/ 25
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9780805074024 (hbk.)
0805074023 (hbk.)
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337.73
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991019714469702626
