Globalization Between the Cold War and Neo-Imperialism

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Editor......Page 2
List of Contributors......Page 4
Introduction: ‘‘globalization between the cold war and neo-imperialism’’......Page 5
References......Page 9
Periodizing Globalization: From Cold War Modernization to the Bush Doctrine......Page 11
Neoliberal Globalization and the Cold War System......Page 12
Cold War Modernization Theory and the Winding Down of the Long Postwar Expansion......Page 13
Phase 1: Crisis of the Cold War System and Neoconservative Mobilization......Page 15
Phase 2: The Reagan Revolution: Money Culture and Victorious Neoliberalism......Page 18
Phase 3: The New World Order: Neoliberalism on the Road to Global Hegemony......Page 21
Phase 4: Globalization and ‘‘Third Way’’ Politics: Neoliberalism with a Human Face?......Page 24
Progressive Modernization Redux: The New Economy as Dawn of the Post-Cold War Era......Page 27
Incipient Statelessness: A World Without Walls......Page 28
Globalization’s Lead Society......Page 29
Investor-Voters and Electronic Participatory Democracy......Page 30
Neoliberalism - the Engine of Globalization and Progress......Page 31
The New Economy: Globalization’s New Laws of Motion......Page 32
All Boats Rise in the Winner Take all Society......Page 33
Globalization’s Peaceful Integration......Page 34
God in the Globalization Machine......Page 35
Gathering Clouds of Post-Cold War era Modernization......Page 36
Neoliberalism with an Iron Fist: U.S. Hyperpower and Imperium......Page 38
After the Post-Cold War Era: Regime Change in the USA & Permanent War Redux......Page 39
New Rome’s Legitimacy Crisis: Geopolitics and the Globalization System......Page 43
The Stockholders’ Empire Under Siege......Page 46
Beyond Arrogant Exceptionalism: Recovering Americana’s ‘‘Spiritual Side’’......Page 48
Notes......Page 52
References......Page 59
Recognizing Empire: Alienation, Authority, and Delusions of Grandeur......Page 67
After Empire?......Page 68
The Spirit of Power Politics......Page 71
The State Unbound......Page 72
Power Disenchanted......Page 74
Enchantment Reborn......Page 75
A Unipolar World......Page 77
Denial and Celebration of Empire......Page 81
The Unilateral Mentality......Page 83
Pax Americana......Page 86
What the People Give, They Can Take Away......Page 88
Alienation, Empire, and Consent100......Page 89
Authority in Question......Page 90
Conceptual Roots of Empire......Page 95
Sovereignty and Alienation......Page 96
Not Two Swords, A Double-Edged Sword......Page 99
Alienation as the Free Act of the People......Page 101
The Prince Unbound......Page 102
In the Beginning was the Sword......Page 105
The Good Cannot Be Good......Page 109
The Outsized Executive......Page 110
Machiavelli in the White House......Page 115
Herrschaft und Knechtschaft......Page 117
Master of All He Surveys......Page 120
The Machiavellian Temptation......Page 122
The Will to Power......Page 127
Recognition Denied......Page 129
Notes......Page 130
Corporate Warriors: The State and Changing Forms of Private Armed Force in America......Page 163
Independent Militias: Early Industrialists as Corporate Warriors......Page 167
Private Industrial Police: Mobilizing Corporate Warriors through the Market......Page 170
Building a Massive Warfare State......Page 172
Private Military Firms and Global Security......Page 174
Nation States and the Use of Force......Page 177
The U.S. in the Global Military Services Industry......Page 178
Theorizing the Rise of the New Corporate Warrior......Page 179
Security Issues in the Post-Cold War Era......Page 180
Changes in the Character of Warfare......Page 182
The Weakness of the U.S. State as a Weakness in Singer’s Argument......Page 183
Conclusions and Implications......Page 188
Notes......Page 192
Books and Journal Articles......Page 194
Press and Web Sources......Page 197
Introduction......Page 199
American Exceptionalism......Page 203
Individualism/Collectivism......Page 207
Moralism/Pragmatism......Page 212
Toughness/Compassion......Page 216
Anti-Intellectualism......Page 219
The Reproduction of Character and Ideology......Page 221
The American ‘‘Monomyth’’......Page 222
Part II: American Character and Postwar Geopolitics......Page 225
In the Name of God......Page 227
The Rise of the Christian Taliban......Page 229
The Current Great Awakening......Page 230
Bush, God, and Iraq......Page 231
In God We Trust......Page 233
Notes......Page 235
References......Page 237
9.11.01 and its Global Aftermath: Empire Strikes Back?......Page 239
Introduction......Page 240
Empire and Empire......Page 241
Empire Evolving......Page 252
Empire as New World Order......Page 254
Empire: Culture War+Post-Modern Geopolitics......Page 256
Empire: Globalization after the Cold War......Page 259
References......Page 265
Globalization and Social Justice: Working the Tensions of the Dialectics of National Character......Page 268
Neoliberal Policy and National Character......Page 269
Privatization and Marketization Processes......Page 271
The Future of U.S. Democracy......Page 274
Notes......Page 277
References......Page 278
Neoliberalism and its Discontents: Comments on Three Views of the American Empire......Page 280
References......Page 285