INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

International Politics

International Politics

Alex Callinicos offers a concise analysis of the Bush administration's strategy and conduct since 9/11. The chapter one does a useful job of reversing key concepts in the rhetoric surrounding the 'war on terrorism': terrorism, rogue states, weapons of mass destruction and democracy are all turned on their heads in an effort to bring an alternative view to the analysis of the Bush strategy.

The main arguments come in the next three chapters, depicting the Bush administration's key players, through their past and present connections, as having a long-term economic and geopolitical project of maintaining American hegemony by ...