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MILITARISM and GLOBALIZATION

Alternative to the Neoliberal System of Globalization and Militarism
Amin, Samir. (2003).


Globalizing Militaries
In Rethinking Globalism
Ferguson, Kathy and Phyllis Turnbull. 2004.
ed. Manfred B. Steger, 79-91.
An interesting article by political scientists that shows how overseas military bases, battle fleets, and small “lily pad” bases supplied directly by sea or air all stretch the concept of US national sovereignty.   


Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire.
Johnson, Chalmers. 2000.
Chalmers Johnson, retired professor of East Asian politics and history, uses the CIA term "blowback" to describe the unintended consequences of US foreign policy based on domination and force, which he argues will have serious future repercussions for the United States.


The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic.
Johnson, Chalmers.  2005.
Johnson explores US militarism's deep roots and maps the expanding empire of military bases and services that support them. He argues that militarism is bankrupting the United States, and creating the conditions for virulent blowback.


Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic
Johnson, Chalmers.  2007.
This is the final volume of Johnson’s “Blowback Trilogy.”,


Neoliberalism, Militarism and Armed Conflict
Kirk, Gwyn and Margo Okazawa-Rey (Eds.). 2000,
Special issue of Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict and World Order, 27(4). See www.socialjusticejournal.org


Permanent War Economy: American capitalism in decline
Melman, Seymour. 1974.


In the Grip of a Permanent War Economy
Melman, Seymour, 2003
Counterpunch,  March 15, http://www.counterpunch.org/melman03152003.html

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