Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Foreword Peter Phillips xiii
Chapter 1 Empire, Hegemony, and the State 1
The Question 1
Bringing the Tripartite State In 5
Hegemony vs. Empire 12
Scholarship on Foreign Policy: Alternative Explanations and Approaches 15
Chapter 2 History and the Issue of the Exception 23
Diplomatic History 23
The State, Exceptionism, and Political Science 31
A Note on Exceptionism 34
Original Contribution 37
On Methodology 41
Chapter 3 Academia and the State 44
Dual State or Double Government? 44
Double Government vs. Political Science 61
Foreign Policy Analysis 67
Chapter 4 The American Power Elite 75
C. Wright Mills: Power and History 75
Mass Society, Failed Liberalism, and the Higher Immorality 82
The Tripartite State: A Critical Theory 89
Structure and Agency 94
Chapter 5 The Deep State, Dark Power, and the Exception 97
Defining the Deep State 97
Dark Power 102
Exceptionism and the State 107
Legitimacy, Lawlessness, and Liberal Myths 110
Chapter 6 An Imperial Colossus Is Born 116
Planning for an "American Century" 116
NSC-68 and the Rise of the Military Industrial Complex 119
Eisenhower and the Growing Deep State 132
The Kennedy Administration: A Brief Departure from the Imperial Consensus 137
LBJ: The Empire Returns to Form 139
Chapter 7 Empire Strikes Back, Harder 143
The Rise and Fall of Tricky Dick 143
Dallas and Watergate: Strange Parallels 147
Monetary Esoterica: The Balance of Dollars 150
War by Other Means: Oil and Finance 155
American Glasnost: Collateral Damage from Watergate 159
Chapter 8 Triumph of the Deep State 166
Ford and Carter: Disposable Stewards 166
The Last Investigation 167
Set Up to Fail: The Overmatched Jimmy Carter 174
The Deep State Untethered: A Natural Experiment 181
Consolidating the Deep State: Reagan's "Revolution" 185
Chapter 9 The Watergate Mystery Wrapped in a Riddle Inside an Enigma 191
Beneath the Myth 191
Nixon and the CIA's "Bay of Pigs" Files 195
A Fractured Establishment Turns to Leak Warfare 197
Nixon Ensnared 198
Of Felled Trees and Scorched Deserts 201
A Media-Driven Scandal 203
A Structural Deep Event or an Establishment Civil War? 206
Wheels Within Wheels: Sex Rings and Surveillance 207
Chapter 10 Watergate, QU'EST-CE QUE C'EST? 214
"A Third-Rate Burglary" 214
Revolt of the Bureaucrats 215
A Combustible Mix 221
Watergate: Richard Nixon's Deep State Nemesis 223
Chapter 11 The Constitution of the Deep State 230
Supranationality 231
The Underworld and the Deep State 232
Deep State Banking and Finance 238
Netherworlds of Dark Money 243
Every Day is Doomsday! COG and the Deep State 249
Deep Sovereignty in the Imperium 254
An Unconstitutional Constitution 263
Chapter 12 Let Us Bring Light to the Dark Side 265
The Utility of Tripartite State Theory 265
Surveying Our Situation 270
How Might the Truth Help Revive Hopes for a Better World? 282
Glossary 291
Endnotes 294
Index 345
