Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope (American Empire Project)

469 Pages·2011·0.97 MB·English

by  Chalmers Johnson

ALSO BY CHALMERS JOHNSON
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American
Republic
The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism,
Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of
American Empire
Peasant Nationalism and Communist
Power:
The Emergence of Revolutionary China,
1937–1945
Revolution and the Social System
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An Instance of Treason: Ozaki Hotsumi and
the Sorge Spy Ring
Revolutionary Change
Change in Communist Systems (editor and
contributor)
Conspiracy at Matsukawa
Ideology and Politics in Contemporary Ch-
ina(editor)
Autopsy on People’s War
Japan’s Public Policy Companies
MITI and the Japanese Miracle:
The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925–1975
The Industrial Policy Debate (editor and
contributor)
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Politics and Productivity: How Japan’s
Development Strategy Works
(with Laura Tyson and John Zysman)
Japan: Who Governs? The Rise of the Devel-
opmental State
Okinawa: Cold War Island (editor and
contributor)
DISMANTLING THE EMPIRE
DISMANTLING THE
EMPIRE
AMERICA’S LAST BEST HOPE
CHALMERS JOHNSON
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The chapter “Blowback World” first appeared in slightly
altered form in theLondon Review of Booksin the October
21, 2004, issue (vol. 26, no. 20), pp. 25–28.
“America’s Unwelcome Advances” first appeared August 22,
2008, onMotherJones.comand is used in this book with its
permission.
Copyright © 2008 by the Foundation for Na-
tional Progress.
All other pieces, except the introduction, first appeared on
the websiteTomDispatch.com.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Johnson, Chalmers.
Dismantling the empire : America’s last best hope /
Chalmers Johnson.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-8050-9303-2
1. United States—Foreign relations—1989– 2. United
States—Military policy. 3. United States. Dept. of
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Defense—Appropriations and expenditures. 4. Intervention
(International law) 5. Imperialism. I. Title.
E840.J6325 2010
973.92—dc22 2010003167
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