Naked Imperialism: America's Pursuit of Global Hegemony - Softcover

Foster, John Bellamy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1583671315 ISBN 13: 9781583671313

Publisher: Monthly Review Press,U.S., 2006

Synopsis

Naked Imperialism During the Cold War years, mainstream commentators were quick to dismiss the idea that the United States was an imperialist power. Even when U.S. interventions led to the overthrow of popular governments, as in Iran, Guatemala, or the Congo, or wholesale war, as in Vietnam, this fiction remained intact. During the 1990s and especially since September 11, 2001, however, it has crumbled. Today, the need for American empire is openly proclaimed and defended by mainstream analysts and commentators.John Bellamy Foster's Naked Imperialism examines this important transformation in U.S. global policy and ideology, showing the political and economic roots of the new ...

About this title

About the Author:

John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review. He is professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and author of The Ecological Revolution, The Great Financial Crisis (with Fred Magdoff), Critique of Intelligent Design (with Brett Clark and Richard York), Ecology Against Capitalism, Marx's Ecology, and The Vulnerable Planet.

About this edition

• Publisher: Monthly Review Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1583671315
• ISBN 13: 9781583671313
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176