Imperial Overstretch: George W. Bush and the Hubris of Empire
By Roger Burbach and Jim Tarbell
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
At the heart of this disturbing and timely book is the ultimate question. Previous empires have foundered on the rock of imperial overstretch - the costs of trying to run and protect empires eventually outstripping the capacity and willingness of the citizenry to pay for them. Is the US in danger of going down that road? Who around George 'Dubya' Bush is pushing him along that path?
Roger Burbach
Roger Burbach is director of the Center for the Study of the Americas and a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written extensively on Latin America and US foreign policy for over four decades. His first book, Agribusiness in the Americas (1980), co-authored with Patricia Flynn, is regarded as a classic in the research of transnational agribusiness corporations and their exploitative role in Latin America. His most notable book is Fire in the Americas (1987), co-authored with Orlando Núñez, which is an informal manifesto of the Nicaraguan revolution during the 1980s. With the collapse of twentieth-century socialism in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe he began to study the emergent system of globalization and to write about the new Latin American social movements and the renewed quest for socialism in the twenty-first century. Michael Fox is a former editor of NACLA Report on the Americas. He has worked for many years as a freelance journalist, radio reporter, and documentary film-maker covering Latin America. He is the co-author of Venezuela Speaks!: Voices from the Grassroots (2010) and the co-director of the documentary films Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy in the Americas and Crossing the American Crises: From Collapse to Action, both available through PM Press. He is on the board of Venezuelanalysis.com and his articles have been published in The Nation, Yes Magazine, Earth Island Journal, and more. His work can be found at blendingthelines.org. Federico Fuentes edits Bolivia Rising, is on the board of Venezuelanalysis.com, and is a regular contributor to the Australian-based newspaper Green Left Weekly, serving as part of its Caracas bureau from 2007 to 2010. During his time in Caracas he was based at the Fundación Centro Internacional Miranda as a resident researcher investigating twenty-first-century political instruments and popular participation in public management. He has co-authored three books with Marta Harnecker on the new left in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Paraguay. His articles have been published with ZNet, Counterpunch, MRZine, Venezuelanalysis.com, Aporrea, Rebelión, America XXI, Comuna, and other publications and websites in both Spanish and English.
Related to Imperial Overstretch
Related ebooks
American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News—From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Why We Fight: Defeating America's Enemies - With No Apologies Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The President of War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDissenting Views: Investigations in History, Culture, Cinema, & Conspiracy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDisobedience and Democracy: Nine Fallacies On Law and Order Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Harlem: People, Power and Politics 1900-1950 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Freedom and Revolt: A Comparative Investigation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings"All Governments Lie": The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In the Arena: Good Citizens, a Great Republic, and How One Speech Can Reinvigorate America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Populist Persuasion: An American History Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Covert Sphere: Secrecy, Fiction, and the National Security State Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsConspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Take Hold of Our History: Make America Radical Again Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMushroom Cloud: Book I of the First Strike Series Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Perilous Path: The Misguided Foreign Policy of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNorth Korea: Another Country Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Protest Nation: Words That Inspired a Century of American Radicalism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5America As Empire: Global Leader or Rogue Power? Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Capitalist Superheroes: Caped Crusaders in the Neoliberal Age Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Liberal Defence of Murder Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Western Terrorism: From Hiroshima to Drone Warfare Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews, Volume 1: The False Messiah Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Crimes Against Humanity: A Shocking History of U.S. Crimes Since 1776 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Reviews for Imperial Overstretch
0 ratings0 reviews