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Border walls : security and the war on terror in the United States, India and Israel
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ISBN: 9781848138230 9781848138247 9781848138254 1848138253 9781848138261 1848138261 1848138245 1848138237 1280885564 9781280885563 9786613726872 6613726877 Year: 2012 Publisher: London New York Zed Books

Collateral language : a user's guide to America's new war
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ISBN: 0814716288 081471627X Year: 2002 Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press,

Power, terror, peace, and war : America's grand strategy in a world at risk
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ISBN: 1400042372 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York Knopf

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From one of our most brilliant and original writers on U.S. foreign policy, a stunning and timely book on the policy of the Bush administration and its current grand strategy for the world. Mead begins by analyzing America's historical approach to the world& by no means perfect, but reasonably moral and reasonably practical on the whole. Then he examines the explosive foreign policy of the Bush administration and the uproar it has caused at home and abroad. Bush, according to Mead, is often strategically right but tactically at fault in his attempts to lead a divided nation& and a divided coalition of allies& in a dangerous struggle against ruthless enemies. We see how the mass terror attacks of 2001 have changed the political and strategic problems of American foreign policy. Despair and decay in the Arab world now present America and its allies with an extraordinarily difficult challenge. The accelerating collapse of civilized life in broad reaches of Africa& and the looming disasters of a similar kind in Central Asia& threatens to create lawless, violent zones where terrorism can thrive, and weapons of mass destruction and biological and chemical weapons can proliferate. We learn why key American alliances have frayed and why the Bush administration's pronouncements and actions have ignited the most acrimonious U.S. political battles over foreign policy since the Vietnam War. Mead closes with a rigorous assessment of both Bush and his critics, and describes the urgent steps the United States must take lest casualties in the war on terror mount and the war itself spin out of control. He proposes a new approach to the war that can rebuild domestic and international support for a tough antiterror policy, outlines a new initiative for the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, and recommends sweeping changes for reforming international institutions, including the United Nations Security Council. 'Power, Terror, Peace, and War 'is a clear, concise guide to some of the mo

Torture and truth : America, Abu Ghraib, and the war on terror
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ISBN: 1590171527 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York New York Review Books

War by other means : an insider's account of the war on terror
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ISBN: 0871139456 9780871139450 Year: 2006 Publisher: New York Atlantic Monthly Press

The Bush doctrine and the war on terrorism : global responses, global consequences
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ISBN: 9780415369978 9780203028162 9781134206216 9781134206254 9781134206261 9780415368315 Year: 2006 Publisher: London New York Routledge

On empire : America, war, and global supremacy
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ISBN: 9780375425370 0375425373 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York Pantheon Books

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In there four incisive and keenly perceptive essays, one of out most celebrated and respected historians of modern Europe looks at the world situation and some of the major political problems confronting us at the start of the third millennium. With his usual measured and brilliant historical perspective, Eric Hobsbawm traces the rise of American hegemony in the twenty-first century. He examines the state of steadily increasing world disorder in the context of rapidly growing inequalities created by rampant free-market globalization. He makes clear that there is no longer a plural power system of states whose relations are governed by common laws--including those for the conduct of war. He scrutinizes America's policies, particularly its use of the threat of terrorism as an excuse for unilateral deployment of its global power. Finally, he discusses the ways in which the current American hegemony differs from the defunct British Empire in its inception, its ideology, and its effects on nations and individuals. Hobsbawm is particularly astute in assessing the United States' assertion of world hegemony, its denunciation of formerly accepted international conventions, and its launching of wars of aggression when it sees fit. Aside from the naivete and failure that have surrounded most of these imperial campaigns, Hobsbawm points out that foreign values and institutions--including those associated with a democratic government--can rarely be imposed on countries such as Iraq by outside forces unless the conditions exist that make them acceptable and readily adaptable. Timely and accessible, 'On Empire' is a commanding work of history that should be read by anyone who wants some understanding of the turbulent times in which we live.

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