Stress testing the USA : public policy and reaction to disaster events

Contents
1 Introduction to Stress Testing the USA
2 The War on Terror and the Costs of Empire
	The Rise of Empire
	Entanglements and Blowback
	The Empire Strikes Back
	The Structural Flaws of Empire
	A Lesson Learned?
	Further Readings
3 Hurricane Katrina, Infrastructure Deficit and the Costs of Climate Change
	Prometheus Unbound
	Urban Political Ecology
	The Infrastructure Deficit of Small Government
	A Failure of Initiative
		The Push and Pull of the Federal System
		From Nation to Empire
		Race, Class, and Citizenship
	Lessons Learned
	Climate Change as A Major Stress Test
	Further Reading
4 The Financial Crisis and the Costs of Neoliberalism
	The Promotion of Homeownership
	The Rise of Neoliberalism
	The Rise of Financial Capitalism and the Decline of the Regulatory State
		The Secondary Mortgage Market
	Financial Collapse
	Summary Remarks
	The Aftermath
	Further Readings
5 The Gulf Oil Spill and the Costs of Regulatory Capture
	Tough Oil
	Regulatory Capture in an Era of Deregulation
	Cutting Costs and Taking Risks
	The Blowout
	Flaws Revealed
	Since the Blowout
	Further Reading
6 The Pandemic and the Costs of an Unhealthy America
	The Pandemic
	The Pandemic in the United States
	The Health System
	The Tattered Social Safety Net
	The Burden of National Ideologies
	Political Partisanship and the Failure of Governance
	A Reckoning of Fractures Revealed
	Further Reading
7 The United States of Stress
	The Costs of Empire
	Climate Change
	Infrastructure Deficit
	The Enshrinement of Homeownership
	The Neoliberal State: Deregulation and Regulatory Capture
	The Health of the United States
	Unequal and Divided
	A System Under Stress
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