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World in Crisis
World in Crisis is a new book from one of the world's leading scholars. Gabriel Kolko provides a panoramic overview of the problems facing the US and the world today. Each chapter covers a key topic, spanning a range of international issues including the current financial crisis, the limits of US foreign policy, the politicisation of intelligence, and why a war with Iran would be likely to culminate in disaster for the US. Kolko also outlines why changes in military technology make all wars, no matter who fights them, increasingly futile. At the heart of the book is the idea that the international system is in the grip of a great transition. Kolko shows how America is losing its dominance, and examines the profound changes we are experiencing as it is forced to accept the limits of its military power.
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Vietnam: Anatomy of a Peace
Vietnam has experienced huge political and economic development since the war. In Anatomy of a Peace, Gabriel Kolko looks at the main economic phases the Communist Party has embarked upon since 1986 and outlines the transition to nascent capitalism. He also explores Vietnam's relations to its neighbours and the US in the light of social and psychological national features. Based on extensive research and over 30 years first hand experience, Anatomy of a Peace is a timely examination of recent history and developing economies in Asia. Gabriel Kolko argues that neither an intentional socialist or market strategy have determined recent Vietnamese history and, in fact, the Communist Party has little control over development during peace time.
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Vietnam y el futuro de la política exterior de los Estados Unidos
Es aún demasiado pronto para los Estados Unidos evaluar definitivamente el significado histórico de la Guerra del Vietnam para la distribución mundial del poder, porque la guerra no ha terminado todavía, y porque realmente puede continuar por muchos años más en diversas formas. Las consecuencias morales y humanas de la guerra para la población indochina misma, son ya bastante claras: después de las inmensas penalidades sufridas, la curación empieza lentamente; la Guerra de Indochina opaca la leyenda de David y Goliath, y se convierte en la guerra más cuidadosamente estudiada de la época moderna, .un evento que dotará de reputación heroica y de autoridad moral a los vietnamitas en el mundo por venir, dones no igualados por lo menos en nuestra generación.
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Vietnam: anatomy of a peace : Vietnam's transition to the market
Vietnam has experienced huge political and economic development since the war. In Anatomy of a Peace, Gabriel Kolko looks at the main economic phases the Communist Party has embarked upon since 1986 and outlines the transition to nascent capitalism. He also explores Vietnam's relations to its neighbours and the US in the light of social and psychological national features.Based on extensive research and over 30 years first hand experience, Anatomy of a Peaceis a timely examination of recent history and developing economies in Asia. Gabriel Kolko argues that neither an intentional socialist or market strategy have determined recent Vietnamese history and, in fact, the Communist Party has little control over development during peace time.
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Vietnam
The author argues in this text, that victory in 1975 caught the Communists wholly unprepared to cope with the reconstruction of the war-torn nation. The text looks at the economic programme the Communist Party has embarked upon since 1986 and describes the decline of its socialist ideology and transition to nascent capitalism. Based on research and first-hand experience, the text offers a portrait of the profound dilemmas the nation confronts today. Market reforms are producing serious social and economic difficulties in Vietnam; inequality is creating a class society and industrial workers are amongst the most exploited in the world. In the light of these problems, the author outlines how Communists are failing to cope with the contradictions between daily realities and their original idealistic aims. He argues that neither a socialist nor a market strategy has determined recent Vietnamese history and that in fact, the confused Communist Party has had little control over economic developments since their victory.
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Vietnam
Vietnam has experienced large political and economic development since the war. This book argues that victory in 1975 caught the Communists wholly unprepared to cope with the reconstruction of the nation. Much is explored in this book.
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The Limits of Intelligence
I have always been interested in the limits of intelligence, limits that reappear in numerous cases wherever American foreign policy is pursued. The following essay, slightly revised, explores a crucial example, but one can study the Korean War or those in Central and South America and come to the same conclusion: US foreign policy has always suffered from a fatal disjunction between policy and reality. And it has suffered countless defeats – which have increased in frequency – because of these illusions. In an essay I wrote for Science & Society in the summer of 1980 I argued that it was also
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Israel
In late 1949 I worked on a boat taking Jews from Marseilles to Haifa, Israel. Jews from Arab nations were in the front of the boat, Europeans in the rear. I was regarded by many of the Europeans as some sort of freak because I had a United States passport and so could stay in the land of milk and honey. One man wanted me to marry his daughter – which meant he too could live in that land of plenty. My Hebrew became quite respectable but the experience was radicalizing or, I should say, kept me radical, and I have
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The Contours of Recent American Foreign Policy
War, from preparation for it through to its aftermath, has defined both the essential nature of the major capitalist nations and their relative power since at least 1914. War became the major catalyst of change for revolutionary movements in Russia, China, and Vietnam. While wars also created reactionary and fascistic parties, particularly in the case of Italy and Germany, in the longer run they brought about domestic social changes of far-reaching magnitude. The Bolshevik Revolution was the preeminent example of this ironic symbiosis of war and revolution.
Wars not only created social disorder within nations, producing revolutions on the Right
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