Incoherent Empire

Less than Half Price! The “new American imperialism” is actually a new militarism. Dissecting the economic, political, military and ideological  resources available to the U.S., Mann concludes that they are so uneven as to generate only an 'incoherent empire' and increasing world disorder.

The U.S. is a military giant, though it is better at devastating than pacifying countries. It is a political schizophrenic, its personality split between multilateralism, unilateralism and an actual inability to rule over foreign lands or to control its own supposed client states. It is only a backseat driver of the global economy. It cannot steer it, but it prods poorer countries toward an unproductive and unpopular neo-liberalism.