"William Greider, one of America's most respected political and economic journalists, explores how and why America has avoided coming to terms with the end of the Cold War era—and the troubling consequ"

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.

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.

... dedicated to the advancement and understanding of those principles and practices, military and political, which serve the vital security interests of the United States.

Widely-researched and fast-paced, Private Warriors surveys the generals, gun-runners and national security staffers who were cast adrift at the end of the Cold War and who now operate in the private sector. In these pages we encounter Ernst Werner Glatt, a right-wing German who was for many years the Pentagon's preferred gun-runner; ex-Secretary of State Alexander Haig who now lobbies for China and assists in selling weapons to Turkey; and Frank Gaffney, an ex-Pentagon official who has grown rich by promoting the biggest boondoggle of them all, Star Wars. Today's private warriors have a direct financial interest in war and the connections to push for the maintenance of bloated military budgets.

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.

"Pat McCormick and Russ Conners build on the insights of "fundamental" Christian ethics and apply them in making concrete judgments about a number of very specific contemporary moral problems relating to the economy, war and violence, medicine, sexuality and the environment." "Facing Ethical Issues is must reading for anyone wishing to make sense of our increasingly complex world."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved