TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pollack,Norman
TI  - Capitalism, Hegemony and Violence in the Age of Drones
SN  - 9783319878959
AV  - JZ1312 .P771 2018
U1  - 327.1 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cham, Switzerland
PB  - Palgrave macmillan, Springer
KW  - International relations
KW  - Political philosophy
KW  - Political science
KW  - Political theory
KW  - Foreign Policy
KW  - Governance and Government
KW  - International Relations Theory
KW  - Political Philosophy
KW  - Political Theory
KW  - US Politics
KW  - United States
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - 1. Introduction: Moral-Political Philosophy, A Spectrum Shift Rightward  -- 2. Advancing Monopoly Capitalism: A Totalitarian Mental Landscape  -- 3. Hierarchical Structuring of the Social Order: Ideological Implications  -- 4. Interpenetration: Business-Government Co-Partnership  -- 5. Comparative Probing of Fascism: Japan and America  -- 6. Liberal Dimensions of Structural Uniformity: Capitalism and National Power  -- 7. Framework of Corporatism: Contrasts in Leadership (FDR vs. Obama)  -- 8. Political Reflections: Education of a (Sometime) Radical  -- 9. Master of Counterrevolution: Obama-Character and Policies  -- 10. Butchers of the Beltway: Anatomy of "Legitimated Violence"  -- 11. American/Israeli War Crimes: National Policies Engendering Fear  -- 12. Contempt for the Law: Presidential Subterfuge  -- 13. Nadir of Public Morality: The Age of the Drone  -- 14. The Drone and Aberrant Government: Normalization of the Unthinkable  -- 15. On Distance and Disconnection: Entering a Moral Black Hole  -- 16. "Greater Leverage": Military-Speak for Imperialism  -- 17. A Moment in American Policy: The Death of Anwar al-Awlaki  -- 18. Transgressions of Moral Law: Enlarged Scope of Legal Authority  -- 19. Stirrings Toward Usurpation: Defying the Rule of Law  -- 20. Echoes of the Cold War: A Strategy of Pre-Emptive Strikes  -- 21. Epilogue:  Threads Left Unexplored: Objectification and Bureaucratization
N2  - This book offers a critical analysis of the rise of the US to global hegemony against a background of increased erosion of democracy and rule of law, and a rising linear pattern of near-absolute capitalist development. The author argues that the significant shrinkage of the ideological spectrum globally, as a result of worrisome levels of business and government interpenetration, has created a dangerous 'prefascist configuration' whereby unthinkable levels of violence have been normalized through the use of technologies such as drones, increasingly condoned even by 'liberal' groups and the so-called political left. Using the example of the Obama administration and its increased reliance on drone assassinations, the volume makes a case for the dangers that lie in today's unique convergence of lack of transparency in government, business-government interpenetration, informal social regimentation, and militarization of capitalism
ER  -