Alfred Street (University of Auckland Store)
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The Management Of Savagery : How America's National Securitystate Fueled The Rise Of Al Qaeda Isis And Donald Trump
Paperback Edition: 1
The Management of Savagery tells the story of the parallel rise of international jihadism and Western ultra-nationalism. Since Washington's secret funding of the Mujahideen following the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in the 1970s, America has supported extremists with money and hardware, including enemies such as Bin Laden. The Pentagon's willingness to make alliances abroad have seen the war coming home with inevitable consequences: by funding, training, and arming jihadist elements in Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya since the Cold War and waging wars of regime change and interventions that gave birth to the Islamic State. Meanwhile, Trump's dealings In the Middle East are likely only to exacerbate the situation further.
Blumenthal excavates the real story behind America's dealing with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America's imperial designs of a national security state. And shows how this has ended with the rise of the Trump presidency.
Pages : 304
Publisher : Verso Books
Publication date : 2019-06-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, Politics, Conservatism & Right-of-centre Democratic Ideologies, Nationalism, Political Ideologies, Pressure Groups & Lobbying, Terrorism, Armed Struggle