Blowback, Second Edition The Costs and Consequences of American Empire

Name: Blowback, Second Edition The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
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ISBN: 9780805075595

ISBN-10: 0805075593

ISBN-13: 9780805075595

Edition: 2nd 2000 (Revised)

Authors: Chalmers Johnson

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Now with a new and up-to-date Introduction by the author, the bestselling account of the effect of American global policies, hailed as “brilliant and iconoclastic” (Los Angeles Times) The term “blowback,” invented by the CIA, refers to the unintended results of American actions abroad. In this incisive and controversial book, Chalmers Johnson lays out in vivid detail the dangers faced by our overextended empire, which insists on projecting its military power to every corner of the earth and using American capital and markets to force global economic integration on its own terms. From a case of rape by U.S. servicemen in Okinawa to our role in Asia’s financial crisis, from our early…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 1/4/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Chalmers Johnson, president of the Japan Policy Research Institute & professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, has written numerous books on Japan & Asia including his classic "Miti & the Japanese Miracle" & "Japan: Who Governs?" He lives near San Diego.



Introduction: After 9/11


Prologue: A Spear-Carrier for Empire



Blowback



Okinawa: Asia's Last Colony



Stealth Imperialism



South Korea: Legacy of the Cold War



North Korea: Endgame of the Cold War



China: The State of the Revolution



China: Foreign Policy, Human Rights, and Trade



Japan and the Economics of the American Empire



Meltdown



The Consequences of Empire


Further Reading


Notes


Index