TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kolko,Gabriel
TI  - World in Crisis: The End of the American Century
SN  - 9781849644211
AV  - E895.K66 2009 
U1  - 327.73009051 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London
PB  - Pluto Press
KW  - World politics -- 1995-2005
KW  - World politics -- 2005-2015
KW  - Balance of power
KW  - United States -- Foreign relations -- 21st century -- Forecasting
KW  - United States -- Military policy
KW  - United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009
KW  - United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Financial Crisis -- Weapons of Mass Financial Destruction -- The Predicted Financial Storm Has Arrived -- 2. The Contours of Recent American Foreign Policy -- Mechanistic Destruction: American Foreign Policy at Point Zero -- A Rational Perspective on Our Present Crises -- The Dilemmas of American Foreign Policy -- 3. Alliances and NATO -- Alliances and the American Election -- 4. Israel: A Stalemated Accident of History -- Israel: Mythologising a Twentieth-Century Accident -- Israel's Last Chance -- 5. The United States and War with Iran -- Israel, Iran and the Bush Administration -- Will the US Attack Iran -- 6. The Limits of Intelligence -- The Limits of Intelligence, The Cold War, Vietnam and Iraq -- 7. Technology and the Future of Warfare -- The Great Equalizer: Lessons From Iraw and Lebanon -- Defeat: Rumsfeld and the American Way of War -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
N2  - A survey of the major problems confronting the world today
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ER  -