The Global Gamble: Washington's Faustian Bid For World Dominance Washington's Faustian Bid For World Dominance

This book offers the most lucid descriptions of several crucial issues that you are likely to ever encounter. It is well structured, rational, specific, and well documented. Gowan renders a superb treatment of: the role of expediency in the collapse of Bretton Woods, the benefit to the Dollar-Wall Street Regime from global financial and macro-economic gyrations, the mechanisms whereby currency manipulation has a disproportionate effect on other countries, the mobilization of hedge fund attack-capital in producing the Asian Financial Crisis & the leveraging of that crisis to radically restructure East Asian domestic policy, the regional forces surrounding the first Gulf War, the disastorous implementation of the capitalist transition on Eastern Europe, and finally the way Social Democratic and formerly Communist parties danced around as they implemented this transition. This is one of the best books around concerning the motives, objectives and consequences of DC geo-political-economic policy during the '90's, it cannont fail to inform you and demythologize this sphere: it is free of demonization, over-simplification or brash rhetoric, the facts and figures are crisp and readily understandable without being overly general or conspicuously emphasized. Highest Possible Recommendation!! In The Global Gamble, Peter Gowan Argues That, Since The Collapse Of The Soviet Bloc, The Us Government Has Been Pursuing An Attempt To Construct A Global Empire A Unipolar World In Which Washington Can Control And Shape The Pattern Of Economic And Political Change In All Regions Of The Globe. Only By Understanding This Ambition Can We Grasp The Dynamics Of International Politics And Economics In The Contemporary World. Gowan Explores The Origins And Distinctive Forms Of Washington's Imperial Project, From The Collapse Of The Soviet Bloc Through To The Gulf War Of 1991, Developments In The European Union, The Enlargement Of Nato And East Asian Financial Collapse. He Also Explores The Efforts Of Various Neoliberal Intellectuals To Legitimate The American Project In Terms Of Liberalism. He Concludes That The Us Faustian Project Is Almost Certainly Doomed To Failure And Unless Plans Are Made Now For Such An Eventuality, The World Could Face Grave And Possibly Catastrophic Breakdowns Early In The Next Century. Part. I. The Globalisation Gamble -- 1 Introduction -- 2 'capital Markets', Financial Systems And The Postwar International Monetary System -- 3 The Dollar-wall Street Regime -- 4 The Evolution Of The Dwsr From The 1970s To The 1990s -- 5 Power Politics, The Dwsr And The Clinton Administration -- 6 The Politics And Economics Of The Panic Of '98 -- 7 Conclusions -- Part Ii. Politics In The Globalisation Period -- 8 The Gulf War, Iraq And Western Liberalism -- 9 The Theory And Practice Of Neo-liberalism For Eastern Europe -- 10 Neo-liberalism And Civil Society -- 11 The Post-communist Parties In The East -- 12 The Enlargement Of Nato And The Eu. Peter Gowan. Includes Bibliographical References. Argues that, since the collapse of the USSR, the US government has been trying to bring about a unipolar world in which the United States can control and shape the pattern of economic and political change in all regions of the globe.