1st Edition

Strategic Impasse Social Origins of Geopolitical Disarray

By Juan E. Corradi Copyright 2019
162 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

162 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

162 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

"Damned if you do; damned if you don’t" voices the strategic impasse the USA finds itself in today. Liberal interventionism and globalization—the two pillars of the international system—seem not to work. Explaining the inability of Western powers to enact wise initiatives, Corradi explores the de-coupling of political systems: we are connected with each other but disconnected from policy makers.... Read more

Preface

Chapter 1
We Have a Problem

Chapter 2
Running Amok, or the End of Capitalism as We Know It

Chapter 3
The Failure of Alternatives

Chapter 4
The New Ancien Régime

Chapter 5
The Mindless Mind, or the New Wiles of Propaganda

Chapter 6
Another Rubicon? Reflections on Defeasance in the West

Chapter 7
Behemoth Lite: National-Populist Democracy and Its Impact on Strategy

Chapter 8
When Nobody Minds the Shop

Chapter 9
Geostrategic Rivalries in a Period of Potential Deglobalization

Epilogue

Postscript
After Pax Americana: Ten Theses on Geopolitical Disarray

Index

 

Biography

Dr. Juan E. Corradi is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at New York University and the author of the book, South of the Crisis: Latin American Perspectives on the Late Capitalist World (Anthem Press, 2010). As a native Latin American teaching in the USA, his work in cultural sociology has informed his scholarship on world affairs for four decades.