Product Description: This stellar collection of Paul Craig Roberts essays dating from 2013explores the extreme dangers in Washington's imposition of vassalageon other countries and Washington’s resurrection of distrust amongnuclear powers, the very distrust that Reagan and Gorbachev worked toeliminate...read more

Product Description: The imagination of America's political elites is dominated by a unipolar vision, according to which the world is dominated by the United States. But the real world is increasingly plural, and others instinctively fear and resist the American vision...read more

Product Description: The book examines the 'Pink Tide' of leftist governments in Latin America struggling against neoliberal hegemony from a critical International Political Economy perspective. Focusing particularly on Venezuela and Brazil, it evaluates the transformative and emancipatory potentials of their political projects domestically, regionally and globally...read more

Product Description: Since its inception, public education in the United States has contributed to the reproduction of a socio-economic and political hierarchy with ingrained inequities and inequalities. The primary goals of public education have included socializing young people to become docile, patriotic citizens serving the nation-state, thus preparing them to fit into a corporate global economy...read more

Product Description: Noam Chomsky is a pioneering scholar in the field of linguistics, but he is better known as a public intellectual: an iconoclastic, radical critic of US politics and foreign policy. Chomsky's Challenge examines most of the major subjects Chomsky has dealt with in his nearly half century of intellectual activism--the Vietnam War, America's broader international role (especially its interventions in the Third World), the structure of power in American politics, the role of the media and of intellectuals in forming public opinion, and American foreign policy in the post-Cold War world...read more

Product Description: The American attitude toward human rights is deemed inconsistent, even hypocritical: while the United States is characterized (or self-characterized) as a global leader in promoting human rights, the nation has consistently restrained broader interpretations of human rights and held international enforcement mechanisms at arm's length...read more

Product Description: The Rise and Decline of the American "Empire" explores the rapidly growing literature on the rise and fall of the United States. The author argues that after 1945 the US has definitely been the most dominant power the world has seen and that it has successfully met the challenges from, first, the Soviet Union and, then, Japan, and the European Union...read more

Product Description: Living with a Reluctant Hegemon addresses a striking puzzle in contemporary world politics: why have European states responded in varying ways to recent unilateralist tendencies in US foreign policy? The United States played a hegemonic leadership role in building the post-war multilateral order but has been reluctant to embrace many recent multilateral treaty initiatives championed by its traditional European allies, such as the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, the International Criminal Court, or the verification protocol to the Biological Weapons Convention...read more

Product Description: This work analyzes American's twenty-first century military challenges. It offers detailed analysis of geo-strategic, geo-political, military and economic risks. The book examines whether America's future role will be considerably diminished and require a fundamental re-evaluation of its terms of engagement...read more

Product Description: For over sixty years the United States has been the largest economy and most powerful country in the world. However, there is growing speculation that this era of hegemony is under threat as it faces huge trade deficits, a weaker currency, and stretched military resources...read more