Autorentext

Alfred McCoy holds the Harrington Chair in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His 2009 book Policing America's Empire won the Kahin Prize from the Association for Asian Studies. In 2012, Yale University awarded him the Wilbur Cross Medal for work as "one of the world's leading historians of Southeast Asia and an expert on...international political surveillance."

Klappentext

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. Can the United States extend the “American Century” or will China guide the globe for the next hundred years? McCoy devotes his final chapter to these questions, boldly laying out a series of scenarios that could lead to the end of Washington’s world domination by 2030.

Inhalt

1.) Chapter 1: "U.S. Global Power and Me"

PART I: Understanding the U.S. Empire

2.) Chapter 2: "America's Ascent to Global Dominion"

3.) Chapter 3: "America and the Dictators"

4.) Chapter 4: "Covert Operations and Global Control"

5.) Chapter 5: "America's Opium War in Afghanistan"

PART II: U.S. Strategies for Survival

6.) Chapter 6: "Global Surveillance State"

7.) Chapter 7: "Torture and åImperial Decline"

8.) Chapter 8: "Beyond Bayonets and Battleships: The Pentagon's Wonder Weapons"

PART III: Dynamics of U.S. Decline

9.) Chapter 9: "The Geopolitics of China's Challenge"

10.) Chapter 10: "Grandmaster of the Great Game"

11.) Chapter 11: "Four Scenarios for the End of the American Century by 2030"
“One of our best and most underappreciated historians takes a hard look at the truth of our empire, both its covert activities and the reasons for its impending decline,” —Oliver Stone