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Book SynopsisAfter Iraq traces Iraq's colonial history, Saddam Hussein's brutal rise to power and their relationship to Iraq's major oil reserves. Harding also explores the rise of Pax Americana and the worldwide military expansion of the US following Bush Junior's presidency. He exposes the stark challenges to international law, multi-lateralism, the UN and to the USA's neighbours and allies. Harding suggests there are frightening ramifications for the USA's own democracy lurking in the fundamentalist proposition that we must make a choice in a clash of civilizations. He emphasizes the need for concerted activism to challenge a US-dominated new world order.
Table of ContentsContents: Preface, The New Geopolitics, Background to the War on Iraq, The Dangers of the Bush Doctrine, The Origins of the Bush Doctrine, Fueling Pax Americana, Eyeballing the American Empire, Losing the Peace, The Deeper War, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, An Overstretched Empire in Denial, The Imperial Threat, Challenging a New Imperial World Order.
