Fortress America
Title | Fortress America PDF eBook |
Author | William Greider |
Publisher | |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1998-11-11 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
The author shows that the military has not adapted to the end of the Cold War and that it "has come to resemble a starving man whose body has begun to feed upon itself."--Jacket.
Fortress America
Title | Fortress America PDF eBook |
Author | William Greider |
Publisher | PublicAffairs |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 1998-11-11 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781891620096 |
The author shows that the military has not adapted to the end of the Cold War and that it "has come to resemble a starving man whose body has begun to feed upon itself."--Jacket.
Shaking the Gates of Hell
Title | Shaking the Gates of Hell PDF eBook |
Author | Sharon Delgado |
Publisher | Fortress Press |
Pages | 431 |
Release | 2020-01-07 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1506432859 |
Shaking the Gates of Hell: Faith-Led Resistance to Corporate Globalization breaks new ground by describing the global economy and its effects from the perspective of an integrated theology of "the earth as primary revelation" and the institutional powers of this world. It reaches the conclusion that hope lies in nonviolent resistance and ecological and social responsibility based on God's action in Jesus and in the triumph of God over the powers. This book describes today's interrelated social, economic, and ecological crises and makes the case that we face a living hell on earth if we do not address them. It provides an overview of the global economic system and offers a comprehensive theological analysis of the network of primary institutions that make up what Walter Wink calls the "Domination System." It points readers in the direction of hope based on following the way of Jesus, who lived in nonviolent resistance to the powers of his day. This new, revised edition continues the powerful story of the original, extending the analysis of the global economy from the 2008 collapse and recession to its alleged recovery. It addresses the Obama administration's policies on economics, trade, and the environment, and provides further reflections on American foreign and military policy in this so-called New American Century.
Covert Capital
Title | Covert Capital PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Friedman |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 428 |
Release | 2013-08-03 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0520274652 |
The capital of the U.S. Empire after World War II was not a city. It was an American suburb. In this innovative and timely history, Andrew Friedman chronicles how the CIA and other national security institutions created a U.S. imperial home front in the suburbs of Northern Virginia. In this covert capital, the suburban landscape provided a cover for the workings of U.S. imperial power, which shaped domestic suburban life. The Pentagon and the CIA built two of the largest office buildings in the country there during and after the war that anchored a new imperial culture and social world. As the U.S. expanded its power abroad by developing roads, embassies, and villages, its subjects also arrived in the covert capital as real estate agents, homeowners, builders, and landscapers who constructed spaces and living monuments that both nurtured and critiqued postwar U.S. foreign policy. Tracing the relationships among American agents and the migrants from Vietnam, El Salvador, Iran, and elsewhere who settled in the southwestern suburbs of D.C., Friedman tells the story of a place that recasts ideas about U.S. immigration, citizenship, nationalism, global interconnection, and ethical responsibility from the post-WW2 period to the present. Opening a new window onto the intertwined history of the American suburbs and U.S. foreign policy, Covert Capital will also give readers a broad interdisciplinary and often surprising understanding of how U.S. domestic and global histories intersect in many contexts and at many scales. American Crossroads, 37
The Uncertainty Doctrine
Title | The Uncertainty Doctrine PDF eBook |
Author | Alexandra Homolar |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2023-09-14 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1009355104 |
The first account of narrative politics in US defense policy surrounding the end of the Cold War. This book will appeal to a broad readership group including Foreign Policy Analysis, (Critical) Security Studies, and International Relations. It will also be useful for courses on American politics.
The Postmodern Adventure
Title | The Postmodern Adventure PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Best |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2020-12-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1136368523 |
This compelling book explores the challenges to theory, politics, and human identity that we face on the threshold of the third millennium. It follows on the successor of Best and Kellner's two previous books, Postmodern Theory, acclaimed as the best critical introduction to the field - and The Postmodern Turn, which provides a powerful mapping of postmodern developments developments in the arts, politics, science, and theory. In The Postmodern Adventure, Best and Kellner analyze a broad array of literary, cultural, and political phenomena from fiction, film, science, and the Internet, to globalization and the rise of a transnational image culture.
Strategic Review
Title | Strategic Review PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Strategy |
ISBN |
... dedicated to the advancement and understanding of those principles and practices, military and political, which serve the vital security interests of the United States.