After the end : making U.S. foreign policy in the post-Cold War world / by JSTOR

Table of Contents: “…White House, Congress, and the paralysis of the U.S. State Department after the Cold War /…”
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Globalization between the Cold War and neo-imperialism / by PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…-- The Spirit of Power Politics -- The State Unbound -- Power Disenchanted -- Enchantment Reborn -- A Unipolar World -- Denial and Celebration of Empire -- The Unilateral Mentality -- Pax Americana -- What the people give, They can take away -- Alienation, Empire, and Consent100 -- Authority in Question -- Conceptual Roots of Empire -- Sovereignty and Alienation -- Not Two Swords, A Double-Edged Sword -- Alienation as the Free Act of the People -- The Prince Unbound -- In the Beginning was the Sword -- The Good Cannot Be Good -- The Outsized Executive -- Machiavelli in the White House -- Herrschaft und Knechtschaft -- Master of All He Surveys -- The Machiavellian Temptation -- The Will to Power -- Recognition Denied -- Notes -- Corporate Warriors: The State and Changing forms of Private Armed Force in America* -- Building the Local State: Capitalist Flexibility and Irregular Armed Force -- Independent Militias: Early Industrialists as Corporate Warriors -- Private Industrial Police: Mobilizing Corporate Warriors through the Market -- Building a Massive Warfare State -- The New Corporate Warrior in the Private Military Industry -- Private Military Firms and Global Security -- Nation States and the Use of Force -- The U.S. in the Global Military Services Industry -- Theorizing the rise of the New Corporate Warrior -- The Silverstein Thesis -- The Singer Thesis -- The Weakness of the U.S. State as a Weakness in Singer's Argument -- Conclusions and Implications -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Books and Journal Articles -- Press and Web Sources -- From Exceptionalism to Imperialism: Culture, Character, and America.…”
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