Strategic Impasse: Social Origins of Geopolitical Disarray

by Juan E. Corradi

Overview

"Damned if you do; damned if you don't" voices the strategic impasse the USA finds itself in today. Liberal interventionism and globalization-the two pillars of the international system-seem not to work. Explaining the inability of Western powers to enact wise initiatives, Corradi explores the de-coupling of political systems: we are connected with each other but disconnected from policy makers. The paradox of increased connectivity and collective disengagement sets a perverse dynamic between publics and elites, with a serious impact on world affairs. Corradi analyzes the social bases of present dilemmas and how incipient decline can be managed, and paralysis overcome.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138212565
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/03/2018
Pages:	162
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Juan E. Corradi is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at New York University and the author of the book, South of the Crisis: Latin American Perspectives on the Late Capitalist World (Anthem Press, 2010). As a native Latin American teaching in the USA, his work in cultural sociology has informed his scholarship on world affairs for four decades.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 We Have a Problem. Chapter 2 Running Amok, or the End of Capitalism as We Know It. Chapter 3 The Failure of Alternatives. Chapter 4 The New Ancien Régime. Chapter 5 The Mindless Mind, or the New Wiles of Propaganda. Chapter 6 Another Rubicon? Reflections on Defeasance in the West. Chapter 7 Behemoth Lite: National-Populist Democracy and Its Impact on Strategy. Chapter 8 When Nobody Minds the Shop. Chapter 9 Geostrategic Rivalries in a Period of Potential Deglobalization. Epilogue. Postscript: After Pax Americana: Ten Theses on Geopolitical Disarray.