{"product_id":"9780986073113","title":"The Politics of Empire: The US, Israel and the Middle East","description":"This book provides a unique conception of US empire     building, linking overseas expansion with:      1) the growth of a police state and declining living     standards;     2) advanced technologically driven global spying on     adversaries and allies with declining economic     competitiveness and military defeats;     3) large scale, long term commitments of economic and     military resources to wars in the Middle East to the     detriment of major corporate interests, but for the benefit     of a pariah state, Israel; and     4) the power of a foreign state (Israel) over US policy via     its domestic pro-Zionist power configuration.             The interplay of these four specific features of US empire     building has no past or present precedent among imperial     states.  Because of Israeli-Zionist influence on US imperial     policy, the main targets and objectives of imperial wars are     located in the Middle East.  The objectives of Israeli and Zionist-     influenced US policy in the Middle East is to enhance Israeli     regional power and the dispossession of the Palestinian     people.  The trillion dollar cost of US wars for Israel, however,     has alienated the vast majority of US society and driven a wedge     between the political elite backing new wars for Israel, and the     public prioritizing of domestic economic welfare.  This study     highlights how the domestic foundations of empire building     have deteriorated and forced the imperial presidency to modify     its approach, seeking diplomatic negotiations over new military     interventions, specifically in the cases of Syria and Iran.             Imperial politics is viewed as a multi-sided power struggle     between military and economic elites, Israel and the Zionist     power configuration, overseas resistance movements and     nationalist regimes, and the US public.  The resolution of this     power struggle is more than an academic question;  it will     determine whether the US will become a full blown police state,     ruled by the pawns of a racist-colonial state engaged in endless     wars or return to its roots as an independent democratic     republic “free of foreign entanglements”.","brand":"Clarity Press, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47132815556848,"sku":"9780986073113","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780986073113_p0.jpg?v=1763881117","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780986073113","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}