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Autore |
Fouskas Vassilis |
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Titolo |
The new American imperialism : Bush's war on terror and blood for oil / / Vassilis K. Fouskas and Bülent Gökay ; foreword by Peter Gowan |
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Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger Security International, , 2005 |
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London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), , 2024 |
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ISBN |
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979-84-00-69069-3 |
1-282-41723-1 |
9786612417238 |
0-313-03830-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (266 pages) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Imperialism |
War on Terrorism, 2001- |
United States Foreign economic relations |
United States Foreign relations 2001- |
United States Military policy |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-240) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Money, oil, and power -- Controlling governments -- The new American way of war -- Neo-imperialist ideology -- The battle for Caspian oil -- The U.S./NATO war on Yugoslavia -- The Greater Middle East initiative -- Iraq's Shiites move to fill a power vacuum -- Ukraine : regime change, U.S. style -- Beasts in Samaritan clothing -- Conclusion: An overview of the new American imperialism. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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With the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States' long war on communism was replaced by a perpetual war on terror. The authors posit that this neo-imperialistic phase is but the latest development in a line of thought and action established after World War II. But, they say, 2005 is not 1945. Today, they argue, the United States uses its power to deplete the resources of the developing world, and to compel the rest of the world to remain dependent on American management of the global economy. Contending that this situation is |
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ultimately untenable, they assert that the United |
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