Incoherent Empire

Michael Mann

• Publisher: Verso
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781844675289
• eBook ISBN:
  9781789603330
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

In this book, noted sociologist Michael Mann argues that the "new American imperialism" is actually a new militarism. Dissecting the economic, political, military and ideological resources available to the US, Mann concludes that they are so uneven as to generate only an 'incoherent empire' and increasing world disorder.
The US is a military giant, though it is better at devastating than pacifying countries. It is a political schizophrenic, its personality split between multilateralism, unilateralism and an actual inability to rule over foreign lands or to control its own supposed client states. It is only a backseat driver of the global economy. It cannot steer it, but it prods poorer countries toward an unproductive and unpopular neo-liberalism.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface to the Paperback Edition
• Preface
• Introduction: The New Imperialism
• One: The Military Giant
• Two: The Economic Back-Seat Driver
• Three: The Political Schizophrenic
• Four: The Ideological Phantom
• Five: The War in Afghanistan
• Six: The War Against (Muslim) Terrorism
• Seven: The War Against Rogue States and North Korea
• Eight: Iraq Attack
• Nine: The New Militarism
• Notes
• Index