In The Shadows Of The American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power

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Explores the distinctive instruments of American ascent to global domination and hegemony--including covert intervention, client elites, psychological torture, and surveillance.

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In a completely original analysis, prize-winning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America's rise as a world power—from the 1890s through the Cold War—and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century through a fusion of cyberwar, space warfare, trade pacts, and military alliances. McCoy then analyzes the marquee instruments of US hegemony—covert intervention, client elites, psychological torture, and worldwide surveillance.Peeling back layers of secrecy, McCoy exposes a military and economic battle for global domination fought in the shadows, largely unknown to those outside the highest rungs of power. Can the United States extend the "American Century" or will China guide the globe for the next hundred years? McCoy devotes his final chapter to these questions, boldly laying out a series of scenarios that could lead to the end of Washington's world domination by 2030.

Author Biography

Alfred McCoy holds the Harrington Chair in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His 2009 book Policing America's Empire won the Kahin Prize from the Association for Asian Studies. In 2012, Yale University awarded him the Wilbur Cross Medal for work as "one of the world's leading historians of Southeast Asia and an expert on...international political surveillance."

Table of Contents

1.) Chapter 1: "U.S. Global Power and Me" PART I: Understanding the U.S. Empire 2.) Chapter 2: "America's Ascent to Global Dominion" 3.) Chapter 3: "America and the Dictators" 4.) Chapter 4: "Covert Operations and Global Control" 5.) Chapter 5: "America's Opium War in Afghanistan" PART II: U.S. Strategies for Survival 6.) Chapter 6: "Global Surveillance State" 7.) Chapter 7: "Torture and

Review

In the Shadows of the American Century persuasively argues for the inevitable decline of the American empire and the rise of China. Whether or not one is a believer in American power, the case that Alfred McCoy makes--that much of America's decline is due to its own contradictions and failures--is a sad one. He provides a glimmer of hope that America can ease into the role of a more generous, more collaborative, if less powerful, world player. Let's hope that Americans will listen to his powerful arguments." --Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Sympathizer "[A] brilliant and deeply informed must-read for anyone seriously interested in geopolitics, the history of Empire, and the shape of the future." --New York Journal of Books "What is the character of this American empire?" Alfred McCoy asks at the outset of this provocative study. His answer not only limns the contours of the American imperium as it evolved during the twentieth century, but explains why its days are quite likely numbered. This is history with profound relevance to events that are unfolding before our eyes. --Andrew J. Bacevich, author of America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History "Alfred McCoy offers a meticulous, eye-opening account of the rise, since 1945, and impending premature demise of the American Century of world domination. As the empire's political, economic, and military strategies unravel under cover of secrecy, America's neglected citizens would do well to read this book."--Ann Jones, author of They Were Soldiers "Sobering reading for geopolitics mavens and Risk aficionados alike..." --Kirkus "McCoy's detailed, panoramic analysis of the past, present, and future of the American empire covers all spheres of activity including not just land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace, but also the netherworld of covert operations--and seasons all of this with some fascinating personal vignettes. His new book, The Shadows of the American Century, joins the essential short list of scrupulous historical and comparative studies of the United States as an awesome, conflicted, technologically innovative, routinely atrocious, and ultimately hubristic imperial power."--John Dower, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Embracing Defeat, War Without Mercy, and The Violent American Century "One of our best and most underappreciated historians takes a hard look at the truth of our empire, both its covert activities and the reasons for its impending decline," --Oliver Stone "In the Shadows of the American Century is a valuable contribution to geopolitical discourse that drawsimportant lessons from history."--Foreword Reviews"McCoy's latest book, In the Shadow of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power, provides an autopsy on a dying empire, which has squandered its moral capital by promoting wide-scale torture and mass surveillance....The end of empire scenarios relayed by McCoy in dark terms could in turn provide positive opportunities for societal change as the necessity for constant war is removed." --The Progressive

Long Description

In a completely original analysis, prize-winning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America's rise as a world power--from the 1890s through the Cold War--and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century through a fusion of cyberwar, space warfare, trade pacts, and military alliances. McCoy then analyzes the marquee instruments of US hegemony--covert intervention, client elites, psychological torture, and worldwide surveillance. Peeling back layers of secrecy, McCoy exposes a military and economic battle for global domination fought in the shadows, largely unknown to those outside the highest rungs of power. Can the United States extend the "American Century" or will China guide the globe for the next hundred years? McCoy devotes his final chapter to these questions, boldly laying out a series of scenarios that could lead to the end of Washington's world domination by 2030.

Review Quote

"What is the character of this American empire?" Alfred McCoy asks at the outset of this provocative study. His answer not only limns the contours of the American imperium as it evolved during the twentieth century, but explains why its days are quite likely numbered. This is history with profound relevance to events that are unfolding before our eyes. --Andrew J. Bacevich, author of America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History "Alfred McCoy offers a meticulous, eye-opening account of the rise, since 1945, and impending premature demise of the American Century of world domination. As the empire's political, economic, and military strategies unravel under cover of secrecy, America's neglected citizens would do well to read this book."--Ann Jones, author of They Were Soldiers "Sobering reading for geopolitics mavens and Risk aficionados alike..." --Kirkus "McCoy's detailed, panoramic analysis of the past, present, and future of the American empire covers all spheres of activity including not just land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace, but also the netherworld of covert operations--and seasons all of this with some fascinating personal vignettes. His new book, The Shadows of the American Century, joins the essential short list of scrupulous historical and comparative studies of the United States as an awesome, conflicted, technologically innovative, routinely atrocious, and ultimately hubristic imperial power."--John Dower, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Embracing Defeat, War Without Mercy, and The Violent American Century

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Description for Sales People

There is increasing concern about the the size, scope ,and destructive capacity of the US military as the global war on terror continues to drag on and the US war machine sets its sites on new targets around the world. McCoy explores the violent past and present of US imperialism. After decades of silence during the Cold War, recent years have brought a number of books on aspects of U.S. empire. Few if any of these competing volumes offer the historical depth, topical range, and originality of geopolitical insight of this book. MCCoy's previous titles, Question of Torture sold 2900 copies and Politics of Heroin sold 6,000 copies.

Details ISBN1608467732 Publisher Haymarket Books Year 2017 ISBN-10 1608467732 ISBN-13 9781608467730 Format Paperback Imprint Haymarket Books Place of Publication Chicago Country of Publication United States Author Alfred McCoy Pages 280 Subtitle The Rise and Decline of US Global Power DEWEY 973 Media Book Short Title In the Shadows of the American Century Series Dispatch Bks. Language English AU Release Date 2017-10-19 NZ Release Date 2017-10-19 UK Release Date 2017-10-19 Audience General Publication Date 2017-09-12 US Release Date 2017-09-12 We've got this

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