Abstract

This essay reviews three recent books on the global economy against the backdrop of the Bush Administration's adoption of a militarized and unilateralist foreign policy that led to the US war against Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq. The argument is that the shift in US foreign policy is a response to both domestic and global challenges. However, there is little reason to believe that this new direction represents a realistic response to the considerable fragilities of the current global economy. On the contrary, the new US foreign policy might better be understood as a symptom of a deepening global crisis.

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