{"product_id":"incoherent-empire-9781844675289","title":"Incoherent Empire","description":"In this book, noted sociologist Michael Mann argues that the \"new American imperialism\" is actually a new militarism. Dissecting the economic, political, military and ideological resources available to the US, Mann concludes that they are so uneven as to generate only an 'incoherent empire' and increasing world disorder. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe US 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Mann\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His major works include the prizewinning series \u003ci\u003eThe Sources of Social Power, Volume I: A History of Power from the Beginning to 1760 AD, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVolume II: The Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1760-1914.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50433268121874,"sku":"9781844675289","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d2de1426-0f02-44a9-a610-1e1328359abf.jpg?v=1729565329","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/incoherent-empire-9781844675289","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}