The Global Gamble

Beskrivning:

Argues that, since the collapse of the USSR, the US government has been trying to bring about a unipolar world in which the United States can control and shape the pattern of economic and political change in all regions of the globe. The text explores the origins and distinctive forms of Washington's imperial project, from the collapse of the Soviet bloc through to the Gulf War of 1991, developments in the European Union, the enlargement of NATO and East Asian financial collapse. It also examines the efforts of various neo-liberal intellectuals to legitimate the American project in terms of liberalism. The text concludes that the United States will fail in its project and the world could face catastrophe as a result.