Deadly Contradictions

The New American Empire and Global Warring

AvStephen P. Reyna

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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As US imperialism continues to dictate foreign policy, Deadly Contradictions is a compelling account of the American empire. Stephen P. Reyna argues that contemporary forms of violence exercised by American elites in the colonies, client state, and regions of interest have deferred imperial problems, but not without raising their own set of deadly contradictions. This book can be read many ways: as a polemic against geopolitics, as a classic social anthropological text, or as a seminal analysis of twenty-four US global wars during the Cold War and post-Cold War eras.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-08-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 37 mm
Vikt:980 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:668
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781785330797

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Stephen P. Reyna is an associate of the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology in Halle/Salle and Honorary Professor at the University of Manchester’s Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute. He is the co-editor of the journal Anthropological Theory.

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“This is an amazing book, a page-turner, a true game-changer, one of those grand oeuvres that an academic discipline produces once a decade at best.” • Patrick Neveling, Cultural Anthropology, Utrecht University“This book is certainly a tour de force … it [offers] a fresh theoretical approach that is rigorously tested in terms of evidence and against alternative interpretations … a profoundly critical work.” • John Gledhill, Social Anthropology, University of Manchester

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceAcknowledgementsGlossary IntroductionPART I: THEORYChapter 1. Global Warring Theory: A Critical Structural Realist ApproachChapter 2. Imperialism: ‘A Monster of Energy’PART II: PLAUSIBILITY 1: NEW AMERICAN EMPIREChapter 3. A Real Shape Shifter: American Empire 1783-1944Chapter 4. ‘Present at the Creation’: Constituting the New American Empire 1945-1950PART III: PLAUSIBILITY 2: CONTRADICTION AND REPRODUCTIONChapter 5. Burdens of Empire: Contradictions and Reproductive VulnerabilitiesPART IV: PLAUSIBILITY 3: GLOBAL WARRINGChapter 6. After the Sunset Came the Night: Global Warring, 1950-1974Chapter 7. ‘The Times They Are A-Changin’: Global Warring, 1975-1989Chapter 8. The Perfect Storm: A Tale of Two ElitesChapter 9. World Warring 1990-2014: The Middle Eastern TheaterChapter 10. World Warring 1990-2014: The Other TheatersChapter 11. Journey’s EndReferencesIndex