Discusses how a precarious American-Soviet standoff could start World War III, while arguing that nuclear war is not inevitable

American Lake: Nuclear Peril in the Pacific

Engineering & Transportation

Bello, Walden

Hayes, Peter

Zarsky, Lyuba

Engineering

Penguin??Books

People & Power In The Pacific

Examines the transformation of politics through digital media, including digital television, online social networking and mobile computing.

History

Australia & Oceania

Pluto Press

In this fiercely critical study of Western aid giving, the authors offer a persuasive argument that recolonisation of the Third World has been carried out through the agencies of the International Banks.

Dark Victory: The United States, Structural Adjustment and Global Poverty (Transnational Institute)

Business & Money

Economics

In this fiercely critical study of Western aid giving, the authors offer a persuasive argument that recolonisation of the Third World has been carried out through the agencies of the International Banks.

Dark Victory: The United States, Structural Adjustment and Global Poverty

A critique of why Third World poverty is so prevalent. Hunger and malnutrition stalk the countries of the South. Over the last 20 years, as the populations of these countries have increased, so too has mass poverty. In this critical study of Western aid giving, Bello offers a pursuasive argument that re-colonization of the Third World has been carried out through the agencies of the International Banks. Bello argues that the Reagan Administration came to power with an agenda to discipline the Third World and in pursuing this policy, the United States pushed the World Bank to shift its resources to structural adjustment lending. Such power, Bello asserts, was used by the Reagan treasury Department to blast open Third World economies and the consequence of such actions has resulted in lower barriers to reduction of social welfare spending, wage cuts and devaluation of local currencies. Recipients of any lending from the West have been forced to accept these policies, with disastrous consequences.

Dark Victory: The United States and Global Poverty

Empire and the Bomb: How the U.S. Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World

The United States is the only country to have dropped the atomic bomb. Since the A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, every U.S. president has threatened nuclear war. This concise history shows how the U.S. has used nuclear weapons to bolster its imperial ambitions. Leading nuclear specialist and peace campaigner Joseph Gerson explains why atomic weapons were first built and used -- and how the U.S. uses them today to preserve its global empire. Gerson reveals how and why the U.S. made more than twenty threats of nuclear attack during the Cold War -- against Russia, China, Vietnam, and the Middle East. He shows how such theats continued under Presidents Bush and Clinton, and George W. Bush. The book concludes with an appeal for nuclear weapons abolition and an overview of the history of the anti-nuclear movement. Drawing from a wide range of sources, this fascinating and timely account shows how the U.S. has used nuclear weapons to dominate the world.

Gerson, Joseph

Americas

From the acclaimed globalization critic, a far-reaching analysis of America's military, economic, and political vulnerability The empire seems unassailable, but the empire is weak-and precisely because of its imperial ambitions. So argues Walden Bello's provocative new book, which systematically dissects the strategic, economic, and political dilemmas confronting America as a consequence of its quest for global domination. An award-winning development expert, Bello shows how despite the enormity of the U.S. defense budget, American forces are already overextended, a condition bound to intensify as each local "victory" breeds simmering resistance and new confrontation. He points to the empire's looming economic breakdown, the result of its gargantuan military costs, record-breaking deficits, and exploitative trade and investment relations with developing countries. On the political front, he warns of the bitter disillusionment mounting around the world in response to America's failure to champion liberal democracy. Everywhere America goes, crony capitalism, hostile coercion, and gross inequalities in income eat away at expectations of justice and inclusion. A clear and prophetic examination, Dilemmas of Domination reveals a not-too-distant future in which the empire's hidden weaknesses will yield fatal challenges to American supremacy.

Dilemmas of Domination: The Unmaking of the American Empire (American Empire Project)

Education & Reference

Metropolitan Books

From "the world's leading no-nonsense revolutionary," a bold and effective analysis of American military, economic, and political vulnerability (Naomi Klein) The empire seems unassailable, but the empire is weak--and precisely because of its quest for global domination. So argues Walden Bello in this provocative portrait of imperial self-destruction, which systematically dissects the dilemmas confronting America as a result of its drive for supremacy. Puncturing the myth of American invincibility, Bello exposes its carefully concealed contradictions: despite the enormity of the U.S. military apparatus, American forces are critically overextended and ever threatened by the simmering resistance each new "victory" breeds. Though America is still the land of unprecedented prosperity, economic breakdown looms, the consequence of gargantuan military costs, exploitative trade and investment relations with developing countries, and record-breaking deficits. A clear and prophetic examination, Dilemmas of Domination reveals a not-too-distant future in which the empire's hidden weaknesses will yield fatal challenges to American omnipotence. "With unsentimental clarity, Walden Bello speaks the truth about American empire and why it is doomed by its own contradictions." --William Greider, author of The Soul of Capitalism

Holt Paperbacks

People and Power in the Pacific: The Struggle for the Post-Cold War Order (Transnational Institute Series)

Russia

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American Lake: Nuclear Peril in the Pacific

People & Power In The Pacific

People & Power In The Pacific

Dark Victory: The United States, Structural Adjustment and Global Poverty (Transnational Institute)

Dark Victory: The United States, Structural Adjustment and Global Poverty

Dark Victory: The United States and Global Poverty

Empire and the Bomb: How the U.S. Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World

Dilemmas of Domination: The Unmaking of the American Empire (American Empire Project)

Dilemmas of Domination: The Unmaking of the American Empire (American Empire Project)

People and Power in the Pacific: The Struggle for the Post-Cold War Order (Transnational Institute Series)