Strategic impasse- Front Cover; Strategic impasse; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Notes; Chapter 1: We Have a Problem; Climate Change: The Difficult Path toward Planetary Sovereignty; What Is to Be Done?; On Strategy and Predictability; Notes; References; Chapter 2: Running Amok, or the End of Capitalism as We Know It; Toward a Good Society?; Notes; References; Chapter 3: The Failure of Alternatives; Notes; References; Chapter 4: The New Ancien Régime; Notes; References; Chapter 5: The Mindless Mind, or the New Wiles of Propaganda; Power Redefined.
NotesReferences; Chapter 6: Another Rubicon?; The Hour of the Accabadors. Nationalism, Fragmentation, and Strategic Distraction in Europe; Notes; References; Chapter 7: Behemoth Lite; Notes; References; Chapter 8: When Nobody Minds the Shop; The Swamp: A Middle Eastern Version of Strategic Depth; Notes; References; Chapter 9: Geostrategic Rivalries in a Period of Potential Deglobalization; The State of the Unions: A Strange Lesson from Europe for the United States; Notes; References; Epilogue; Notes; Postscript; Thesis 1; Thesis 2; Thesis 3; Thesis 4; Thesis 5; Thesis 6; Thesis 7; Thesis 8.
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"Liberal interventionism and globalization-the two pillars of the international system--seem not to work. Explaining the inability of Western powers to enact wise initiatives, Corradi explores the de-coupling of political systems: we are connected with each other but disconnected from policy makers. The paradox of increased connectivity and collective disengagement sets a perverse dynamic between publics and elites, with a serious impact on world affairs. Corradi analyzes the social bases of present dilemmas and how incipient decline can be managed, and paralysis overcome"--
Strategic Impasse : Social Origins of Geopolitical Disarray.