Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire

Title: Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
Author: Johnson, Chalmers
ISBN: 9780805075595
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Published: 2004
Binding: Quality
Language: English
Condition: Used: Very Good
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Now with a new and up-to-date Introduction by the author, the bestselling account of the effect of American global policies, hailed as brilliant and iconoclastic (Los Angeles Times)

The term blowback, invented by the CIA, refers to the unintended results of American actions abroad. In this incisive and controversial book, Chalmers Johnson lays out in vivid detail the dangers faced by our overextended empire, which insists on projecting its military power to every corner of the earth and using American capital and markets to force global economic integration on its own terms. From a case of rape by U.S. servicemen in Okinawa to our role in Asia's financial crisis, from our early support for Saddam Hussein to our conduct in the Balkans, Johnson reveals the ways in which our misguided policies are planting the seeds of future disaster.

In a new edition that addresses international events from September 11 to the war in Iraq, this now-classic book remains as prescient and powerful as ever.