Strategic Impasse
Social Origins of Geopolitical Disarray
1st Edition
Published on 3. July 2018
Book
Hardback
150 pages
978-1-138-21256-5 (ISBN)
Description
"Damned if you do; damned if you don't" voices the strategic impasse the USA finds itself in today. Liberal interventionism and globalization-the two pillars of the international system-seem not to work. Explaining the inability of Western powers to enact wise initiatives, Corradi explores the de-coupling of political systems: we are connected with each other but disconnected from policy makers. The paradox of increased connectivity and collective disengagement sets a perverse dynamic between publics and elites, with a serious impact on world affairs. Corradi analyzes the social bases of present dilemmas and how incipient decline can be managed, and paralysis overcome.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
1 s/w Abbildung, 1 s/w Zeichnung
1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
398 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-21256-5 (9781138212565)
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Person
Dr. Juan E. Corradi is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at New York University and the author of the book, South of the Crisis: Latin American Perspectives on the Late Capitalist World (Anthem Press, 2010). As a native Latin American teaching in the USA, his work in cultural sociology has informed his scholarship on world affairs for four decades.
Content
Chapter 1 We Have a Problem. Chapter 2 Running Amok, or the End of Capitalism as We Know It. Chapter 3 The Failure of Alternatives. Chapter 4 The New Ancien Regime. Chapter 5 The Mindless Mind, or the New Wiles of Propaganda. Chapter 6 Another Rubicon? Reflections on Defeasance in the West. Chapter 7 Behemoth Lite: National-Populist Democracy and Its Impact on Strategy. Chapter 8 When Nobody Minds the Shop. Chapter 9 Geostrategic Rivalries in a Period of Potential Deglobalization. Epilogue. Postscript: After Pax Americana: Ten Theses on Geopolitical Disarray.