Deadly Contradictions : : The New American Empire and Global Warring / / Stephen P. Reyna.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Reyna, Stephen P.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (668 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- GLOSSARY -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 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