1st Edition

The Politics of Empire War, Terror and Hegemony

Edited By Joseph Peschek Copyright 2005
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

In the year after the September 11, 2001 attacks the Bush administration put together the elements of a far-reaching foreign policy doctrine based on unilateral action, pre-emptive military strikes, and prevention of the emergence of any strategic rivals to U.S. supremacy. Bush’s grand strategy was formalized in a September 17, 2002 presidential report called The National Security Strategy of the... Read more
Introduction

Joseph G. Peschek, Hamline University



US Grand Strategy and Its Contradictions

Carl Boggs, National University, Los Angeles



Pretexts and U.S. Foreign Policy: The War on Terrorism in Historical Perspective

David N. Gibbs, University of Arizona



Neoliberalism By Other Means: The War on Terror At Home and Abroad

Gordon Lafer, University of Oregon



War Without End: The Domestic Economic Fallout of Empire

Sheila D. Collins, William Paterson University



We Don’t Torture People in America: Coercive Interrogation in the Global Village

Edward Greer,



Minority Report on the Bush Doctrine

Gerard Huiskamp



Preemptive Strikes and the War on Iraq: A Critique of Bush Administration Unilateralism and Militarism

Douglas Kellner



What to Expect From U.S. Democracy Promotion in Iraq

William I. Robinson



Consensual Deception and US Policy in Iraq

Irene Gendzier

Biography

Joseph G. Peschek (Edited by)