This book offers a critical analysis of the rise of the US to global hegemony against a background of increased erosion of democracy and rule of law, and a rising linear pattern of near-absolute capitalist development. The author argues that the significant shrinkage of the ideological spectrum globally, as a result of worrisome levels of business and government interpenetration, has created a dangerous 'prefascist configuration' whereby unthinkable levels of violence have been normalized through the use of technologies such as drones, increasingly condoned even by 'liberal' groups and the so-called political left. Using the example of the Obama administration and its increased reliance on drone assassinations, the volume makes a case for the dangers that lie in today's unique convergence of lack of transparency in government, business-government interpenetration, informal social regimentation, and militarization of capitalism.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9783319648873
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-3-319-64887-3
- Verlag: Springer International Publishing
- Erscheinungstermin: 25.01.2018
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2018
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 748 g
- Seiten: 483
- Format (B x H x T): 153 x 216 x 32 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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