Deadly Contradictions

The New American Empire and Global Warring
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-079-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 668 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1019 g

As US imperialism continues to dictate foreign policy, Deadly Contradictions is a compelling account of the American empire. Stephen P. Reyna argues that contemporary forms of violence exercised by American elites in the colonies, client state, and regions of interest have deferred imperial problems, but not without raising their own set of deadly contradictions. This book can be read many ways: as a polemic against geopolitics, as a classic social anthropological text, or as a seminal analysis of twenty-four US global wars during the Cold War and post-Cold War eras.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reyna, Stephen P.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Außenpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

Glossary



Introduction

PART I: THEORY

Chapter 1. Global Warring Theory: A Critical Structural Realist Approach

Chapter 2. Imperialism: ‘A Monster of Energy’

PART II: PLAUSIBILITY 1: NEW AMERICAN EMPIRE

Chapter 3. A Real Shape Shifter: American Empire 1783-1944

Chapter 4. ‘Present at the Creation’: Constituting the New American Empire 1945-1950

PART III: PLAUSIBILITY 2: CONTRADICTION AND REPRODUCTION

Chapter 5. Burdens of Empire: Contradictions and Reproductive Vulnerabilities

PART IV: PLAUSIBILITY 3: GLOBAL WARRING

Chapter 6. After the Sunset Came the Night: Global Warring, 1950-1974

Chapter 7. ‘The Times They Are A-Changin’: Global Warring, 1975-1989

Chapter 8. The Perfect Storm: A Tale of Two Elites

Chapter 9. World Warring 1990-2014: The Middle Eastern Theater

Chapter 10. World Warring 1990-2014: The Other Theaters

Chapter 11. Journey’s End

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Reyna, Stephen P.
Stephen P. Reyna is an associate of the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology in Halle/Salle and Honorary Professor at the University of Manchester’s Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute. He is the co-editor of the journal Anthropological Theory.