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Author:   Vassilis Fouskas ,  Bulent Gokay
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9780275984762

ISBN 10:   0275984761
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   30 October 2005
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Foreword by Peter Gowan Acknowledgments Introduction Part I Neo-Imperial Strategies: Illusions of Power 1 Money, Oil, and Power 2 Controlling Governments 3 The New American Way of War 4 Neo-Imperialist Ideology Part II A Dream Come True: ""Now We Can Claim the World"" 5 The Battle for Caspian Oil 6 The U.S./NATO War on Yugoslavia 7 The Greater Middle East Initiative 8 Iraq's Shiites Move to Fill a Power Vacuum 9 Ukraine: Regime Change, U.S. Style 10 Beasts in Samaritan Clothing Conclusion: An Overview of the New American Imperialism Bibliographic Essay Index"

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Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty. - Choice

This timely and insightful work provides a provocative analysis of the dynamics of U.S. power in the age of the 'War on Terror' and the 'Export of Freedom.' - Dan Plesch, Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London:

Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty. * Choice *

"""Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty."" - Choice"

Author Information

Vassilis K. Fouskas is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Stirling. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans and the author of Zones of Conflict: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Balkans and Greater Middle East (2003) and Italy, Europe, and the Left (1998). Búlent Gókay is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Keele University. He is the editor of the Eurasian Studies Network and the author of The Politics of Caspian Oil (2001) and co-editor of Kosovo: Politics of Delusion (2001) and 11 September 2001: War, Terror, and Judgement (2003).

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