In the drive to accumulate ever more global power for the US state and its allies, both political and corporate, the quest for totalization confronts the challenge of "overreach". To operate using smaller efforts to carry larger loads, Us strategists have devised what they call "force multipliers". Force multiplication is about "leverage": using partners and proxies in an expanding network. Forces are conceptualized in multi-dimensional terms. Anything in the world of cultural systems, social relationships, and material production can become force multipliers for imperialism, Chapters in this volume present diverse examples of force multiplication, ranging from Plan Colombia to Bulgarian membership in NATO and the Us-Israeli relationship, from the New Alliance for Food Security to charitable aid and the control of migration, to the management of secrecy.
Author(s): Maximilian C. Forte; John Talbot; Mandela Coupal Dalgleish; Robert Majewski; Lea Marinova; Chloë Blaszkewycz; Iléana Gutnick
Series: The New Imperialism 5
Publisher: Alert Press
Year: 2015
Language: English
City: Montreal
Tags: 1. Imperialism. 2. United States--Foreign relations. 3. United States--Military policy. 4. World politics--1989-. 5. International relations. 6. Instrumentalism (Philosophy).
Cover
Front
Copyright
Table of Contents
Figures
Preface
Introduction: FORCE MULTIPLIERS: IMPERIAL INSTRUMENTALISM IN
THEORY AND PRACTICE
Figure I.1: General Petraeus and His Force Multipliers
Figure I.2: The US State Department’s Connected Coca-Cola Capitalists
from the Middle East and North Africa
Ch. 1: PROTÉGÉ OF AN EMPIRE: INFLUENCE AND EXCHANGE BETWEEN US AND ISRAELI IMPERIALISM
Figure 1.1: John Kerry Meets with AIPAC
Figure 1.2: A US-Israeli Air Force
Figure 1.3: US Patriots in Israel
Figure 1.4: US-directed “Interoperability” with Israel
Figure 1.5: Defending Israel
Figure 1.6: Big Brother Visits His Israeli Protégé
Ch. 2: THE NEW ALLIANCE:
GAINING GROUND IN AFRICA
Figure 2.1: Genealogy of the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition
Ch. 3: COCAINE BLUES: THE COST OF DEMOCRATIZATION UNDER
PLAN COLOMBIA
Figure 3.1: Colin Powell Supporting Plan Colombia
Ch. 4: BULGARIAN MEMBERSHIP IN NATO AND THE PRICE OF DEMOCRACY
Figure 4.1: NATO Training Bulgaria for “Interoperability”
Figure 4.2: The US Inspects Bulgaria’s “Modernization”
Ch. 5: FORCED MIGRATIONS: AN ECHO OF THE STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE OF THE NEW IMPERIALISM
Figure 5.1: A Mobile US Border
Figure 5.2: A History of Militarizing the US-Mexican Border, 1916
Figure 5.3: Militarizing the US-Mexican Border, 2015
Figure 5.4: An Imperial Border
Figure 5.5: The US Army: Walling Off Mexico
Ch. 6: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF VS. HUMANITARIAN BELIEF
Ch. 7: ON SECRECY, POWER, AND THE IMPERIAL STATE: PERSPECTIVES FROM WIKILEAKS AND
ANTHROPOLOGY
Contributors
Index
