Globalization and Empire: The U.S. Invasion of Iraq, Free Markets, and the Twilight of Democracy

Author:   Stephen J. Hartnett ,  Laura Ann Stengrim
Publisher:   The University of Alabama Press
Edition:   Annotated edition
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9780817315016


Pages:   382
Publication Date:   30 July 2006
Format:   Hardback
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"This book probes the discrepancies separating President Bush's stated reasons for waging war on Iraq, the deeper political and economic reasons for the invasion, and the consequences of the Bush administration's policies for the future of globalization. As the reconstruction of Iraq wobbles forward, tarnished by waves of deadly bombings and mounting charges of crony capitalism, many observers have come to consider the occupation a case study of the future of globalization, literally a harbinger of how the U.S. intends to build the post-9/11 world in its own image. """"Globalization and Empire"""" offers a critique of the arguments for waging war on Iraq, an examination of the foreign policy principles driving that war, an analysis of the economic dilemmas of globalization, and an expose of the inner workings of the reconstruction of Iraq. Moving from analysis to action, the book's appendix offers a comprehensive reader's guide to the anti-war and anti-corporate globalization movements, thus providing readers with practical options for re-energizing the practices of democracy both in America and abroad."

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Author:   Stephen J. Hartnett ,  Laura Ann Stengrim
Publisher:   The University of Alabama Press
Imprint:   The University of Alabama Press
Edition:   Annotated edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.744kg
ISBN:  

9780817315016


ISBN 10:   0817315012
Pages:   382
Publication Date:   30 July 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Hartnett and Stengrim offer an elegant and profoundly disturbing argument. . . . This book should be engaged by anyone deeply concerned about both the rhetoric and the economics of globalization.--Rhetoric Review An enormously useful book. . . . At a time when scholars tend to dig ever more deeply into ever more narrow subjects, Hartnett and Stengrim range across the contemporary political scene. Without descending into crude casual claims, they develop links among globalization, corporate interests, foreign policy, and military action. . . . Scholars and citizens will want [this book] on their shelves.--Rhetoric & Public Affairs


An enormously useful book. . . . At a time when scholars tend to dig ever more deeply into ever more narrow subjects, Hartnett and Stengrim range across the contemporary political scene. Without descending into crude casual claims, they develop links among globalization, corporate interests, foreign policy, and military action. . . . Scholars and citizens will want [this book] on their shelves.-- Rhetoric & Public Affairs


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Stephen John Hartnett is Associate Professor of Speech Communication at the University of Illinois and author of Democratic Dissent & the Cultural Fictions of Antebellum America. Laura Ann Stengrim is a doctoral candidate in Speech Communication at the University of Illinois and a contributor to Cultural Studies & Critical Methodologies and Communication and Critical Cultural Studies.

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