The New Imperialists: Ideologies of Empire

Contents......Page 6
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS......Page 8
Acknowledgements Acknowledgements......Page 11
INTRODUCTION: THE NEW WATCHDOGS......Page 14
FREEDOM, EQUALITY, IMPERIALISM......Page 22
IDEOLOGIES OF CAPITALIST IMPERIALISM......Page 25
THE U.S. IDEA OF DEMOCRACY......Page 30
2 AFTER THE FACT: READING TOCQUEVILLE IN BAGHDAD*......Page 38
3 TORTURED CIVILIZATIONS: ISLAM AND THE WEST......Page 58
4 GENDER, POLITICAL ISLAM, AND IMPERIALISM......Page 74
POLITICAL ISLAM AND THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE......Page 76
NEW GROUND IN UNDERSTANDING ISLAM?......Page 77
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS......Page 78
IMPERIALISM, SECULARISM, AND GENDER RELATIONS......Page 82
CONCLUSION......Page 93
5 IMPERIAL NARCISSISM: MICHAEL IGNATIEFF’S APOLOGIES FOR EMPIRE......Page 100
DISPENSABLE REASONS: THE SHODDY LOGIC OF THE IMPERIAL APOLOGIST......Page 102
FLAGS OF CONVENIENCE: RIGHTS, ETHICS, AND THE NEEDS OF STRANGERS......Page 104
THEIR ATROCITIES AND OURS: IGNATIEFF’S DIALECTIC OF GOOD AND EVIL......Page 108
IMPERIAL NARCISSISM, IMPERIAL HORROR......Page 117
BRINGING THE IMPERIAL STATE BACK IN......Page 124
NIALL FERGUSON’S RESURRECTION OF EMPIRE......Page 128
REVISING BRITISH IMPERIAL HISTORY......Page 131
INDIA......Page 133
AHISTORICAL HISTORY: LEGACIES OF EMPIRE......Page 140
INTRODUCTION......Page 150
THE STRAUSSIAN NATURALIZATION OF EMPIRE......Page 153
GETTING TO EMPIRE THROUGH THUCYDIDES......Page 158
CONCLUSION......Page 172
8 PRAISING EMPIRE: NEOLIBERALISM UNDER PAX AMERICANA*......Page 180
LAL: THE “LIBERAL” INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER......Page 182
THE MATERIAL AND SOCIAL ROOTS OF NEOLIBERAL IDEOLOGY......Page 185
THE NEOLIBERAL BELIEF SYSTEM......Page 187
THE CIRCUIT OF CAPITAL......Page 190
THE EVER-EXPANDING MARKET PLACE......Page 191
THE RIGHT TO PROPERTY......Page 195
ENDING BARRIERS TO CAPITAL FLOW......Page 198
ENFORCING NEOLIBERAL “REFORMS”......Page 200
CONTRADICTIONS OF THE SYSTEM......Page 203
CONCLUSION......Page 205
THE LEFT AGAINST AMERICAN CULTURAL IMPERIALISM......Page 212
THE RIGHT FOR AMERICAN CULTURAL IMPERIALISM......Page 216
ENTER THE DISCOURSE OF AMERICAN SOFT POWER......Page 219
JOSEPH NYE: AMERICAN SOFT POWER AS AMERICAN WORLD HEGEMONY......Page 220
LEIGH ARMISTEAD: AMERICAN SOFT POWER AS AMERICAN INFORMATION OPERATIONS......Page 224
MATTHEW FRASER: AMERICAN SOFT POWER AS THE GLOBAL AMERICAN CULTURAL INDUSTRY......Page 229
AMERICAN SOFT POWER, OR, AMERICAN CULTURAL IMPERIALISM......Page 235
INTRODUCTION......Page 242
IMPERIALISM IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM......Page 247
LAUNCHING THE PROJECT: KOFI ANNAN AT THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM......Page 249
REFORMING THE U.N. SYSTEM......Page 252
THE HIGH-LEVEL ROAD TO MONTERREY......Page 258
THE 2005 WORLD SUMMIT: THE IMPERIALIST PROJECT UNLEASHED......Page 268
INDEX......Page 274