The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism

Présentation de l'éditeur This book is a political economy study of U.S. militarism. In examining the tendency to war and militarism, the author looks past George W. Bush and the neoconservatives in this administration, focusing on the institutional and politico-economic interest Biographie de l'auteur ISMAEL HOSSEIN-ZADEH is Professor of Economics at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. He has previously published one book, Soviet Non-Capitalist Development: The Case of Nasser's Egypt (1989), and a number of papers on significant topics. Those topics include long waves of economic expansion and decline, economic crises and restructuring policies, currency-trade relations, NAFTA and labor, Third World debt, determinants of presidential economic policies, the political economy of war and military spending, and the roots of conflict between the Muslim world and the West.