Outsourced Empire
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Outsourced Empire

How Militias, Mercenaries, and Contractors Support US Statecraft

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eBook - ePub

Outsourced Empire

How Militias, Mercenaries, and Contractors Support US Statecraft

About this book

There has been a shift in the way that we understand the forces behind imperialism. In this book, Andrew Thomson re-evaluates the history of US imperialism, from the Cold War to today, by looking at the influence of paramilitary actors. Thomson reveals how these agents are central to US imperialism - from the Guatemalan coup to the Bay of Pigs, from Syrian rebel factions to the Soviet-Afghan War, bringing these narratives together to reveal the evolution of paramilitary insurgencies across the globe. Militias, mercenaries, and private companies (PMCs) have formed a central part of the strategies designed to influence political and economic conditions abroad, oriented towards the US's Empire. Drawing on declassified documents including US training manuals, CIA communiqués and the National Security Archive, Outsourced Empire reveals new evidence that helps us understand these institutions and their collective role in maintaining global order.

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Information

Publisher
Pluto Press
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9780745337036
eBook ISBN
9781786802637
Edition
1
Topic
Technology & Engineering
Subtopic
World History
Index
Technology & Engineering

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
  6. Introduction
  7. 1 US Imperial Statecraft and Para-Institutional Forces
  8. 2 Covert Regime Change in the Early Cold War: “Power Moves Involved in the Overthrow of an Unfriendly Government”
  9. 3 Counterinsurgent Statecraft: Militias, Mercenaries, and Contractors
  10. 4 Reagan, Low-Intensity Conflict, and the Expansion of Para-Institutional Statecraft
  11. 5 Continuity After the Cold War and the Consolidation of Para-Institutional Complexes
  12. 6 The War on Terror, Irregular Warfare, and the Global Projection of Force
  13. Conclusions
  14. Notes
  15. Index