The Global Gamble: Washington's Faustian Bid for World Dominance

The collapse of the Soviet Bloc presented policy makers in Washington with a temptation reminiscent of Faust’s, opening up vistas of hitherto unimaginable global power; but the cold breath of Mephistopheles is already blowing across devastated communities from southeast Asia to the Balkan peninsula in the wake of America’s bid for world power.

In this major analysis of the new era of American domination, Peter Gowan strips away the language of humanitarian ideals that have cloaked US interve...