In the shadows of the American century
Subtitle: the rise and decline of US global power
By: Alfred W. McCoy
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9781608467730
Subjects: Geopolitics; Hegemony; Foreign relations
Description: "In a completely original analysis, prize-winning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America's rise as a world power--from the 1890s through the Cold War--and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century through a fusion of cyberwar, space warfare, trade pacts, and military alliances. McCoy then analyzes the marquee instruments of US hegemony--covert intervention, client elites, psychological torture, and worldwide surveillance. Peeling back layers of secrecy, McCoy exposes a military and economic battle for global domination fought in the shadows, largely unknown to those outside the highest rungs of power."--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: "Dispatch Books"

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. US global power and me; title: Part I. Understanding the US empire. Ch. 1. The world island and the rise of America; title: Ch. 2. "Our S.O.B.s" : America and the autocrats; title: Ch. 3. Covert netherworld; title: Part II. US strategies for survival. Ch. 4. A global surveillance state; title: Ch. 5. Torture and the eclipse of empires; title: Ch. 6. Beyond bayonets and battleships : the Pentagon's wonder weapons; title: Part III. Dynamics of US decline. Ch. 7. Grandmasters of the great game; title: Ch. 8. Five scenarios for the end of the American century.