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Blowback, Second Edition: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire

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by Chalmers Johnson


  and Russia

  and Tibet

  and world politics in 21st century

  Bolivia, Okinawa farmers in

  Bosnia

  Brazil

  Bretton Woods system

  Britain

  American military bases in

  arms sales

  Brown, Harold

  Brunei

  Brzezinski, Zbigniew

  “bubble economy”

  Japanese

  U.S. as

  Bulgaria

  Bundy, McGeorge

  Bungei Shunju magazine

  Burma

  Burmese National League for Democracy

  Bums, Nicholas

  Bush, George,

  Business Week

  C-130s

  Calleo, David

  Cambodia

  Campbell, Kurt

  Canada

  capital flows

  and crisis of 1997

  need for controls

  capitalism, American model (free-market)

  campaign to force world into

  and Chinese economic reforms

  in East Asia

  and economic crisis of 1997

  and imperialism

  and IMF

  capitalism, Asian model

  Japanese

  as state-guided capitalism

  U.S. opposes,

  see also “developmental state”

  “capitalism”, crony

  capitalism, finance

  and floating exchange rates

  capital markets

  Caribbean nations

  Carlos (terrorist)

  Carlson, Evans

  Carlyle Group

  Carollo, Russell

  cartelization

  of news media

  Carter, Jimmy

  Casey, William

  Castro, Fidel

  Central America,

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

  and Afghanistan

  and arms sales

  covert actions

  Directorate of Operations

  disruption policy

  and Guatemala

  and Indonesia

  Japan

  and North Korea

  Okinawa

  South Korea

  and Tibet

  and Turkey

  and UN inspectors

  chaebol (Korean conglomerates)

  Chairawan, Colonel

  Chase Bank

  Chatan, Okinawa

  Cheju massacre

  Cheng Ho

  Chernenko, Konstantin

  Cherokee group

  Chiang Ching-kuo

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Chibana, Shoichi

  Chile

  China

  banking system

  Communist revolution

  containment of

  Cultural Revolution

  currency

  economic reforms

  embassy bombing

  and “extraterritoriality”

  and free trade

  future of

  and Hong Kong

  and human rights

  and IMF

  and imperial overstretch

  and Indonesia

  irredentist claims of

  and Japan

  Japanese invasion of–xxviii

  and Korean War

  militarization

  military spending

  military threat of

  nationalism

  Nixon’s opening to

  and North Korea

  and nuclear weapons

  and South China Sea islands

  and South Korea

  and Taiwan

  and Tibet

  soft totalitarianism of

  threat of

  three groups in

  Chinese, overseas

  Chinese Communist Party–xxvii

  15th Congress (1997)

  Chinese People’s Liberation Army

  Chinese People’s Volunteers

  Chinese State Statistical Bureau

  Choi Kyu-hah

  Chosen Soren

  Christopher, Warren

  Chun Doo-hwan, General

  Citibank

  Clark, Donald

  Clark, Gen. Mark W.

  Clarke, Richard

  Clausewitz, Karl von

  Clinton, Bill

  impeachment

  Clinton, Hillary Rodham

  CNN

  Cobra Gold exercise

  Cohen, William

  Cold War

  and arms sales

  and China policy

  cost of

  and East Asia

  and economic colonialism

  end of

  and Japanese economy

  and military spending

  North Korea as end game of

  and Soviet and American empires

  structural characteristics of

  and Turkey

  Colombia

  Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty (1996)

  Congo

  Conry, Barbara

  “constructive engagement”

  “containment”

  Contemplacion, Flor

  corporations

  American

  East Asian

  Costa Rica

  Council on Foreign Relations

  Cox, Christopher

  Croatia

  cruise missiles

  attacks

  CS First Boston

  CS tear gas

  Cuba

  currency

  controls, in China

  and economic crisis of 1997

  Indonesian

  Taiwanese

  transfers, effect of

  see also exchange rates

  Czechoslovakia

  Czech Republic

  Daewoo

  Daiichi Kangyo bank

  Dalai Lama

  Dayton Daily News

  Death by Government (Rummel)

  death squads

  defense budget, U.S.

  Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) ,

  Defense Science Board

  Delta Force

  Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)

  democracy

  and arms sales

  and China

  vs. development

  and Japan

  and South Korea

  Deng Xiaoping

  Department of Defense, U.S.

  East Asia Strategy Report (1998)

  and JCET program

  and “privatization,”

  Department of the Interior, U.S.

  deregulation

  Derien, Pat

  “deterrence by example”

  “developmental state”

  “soft authoritarian”

  and trade

  see also capitalism, Asian model

  Diamond, John

  diplomacy

  “disruption” policy

  Djilas, Milovan

  Doctrine for Special Forces Operations (Department of Defense)

  “domino theory”

  Doubleday, Michael

  Dower, John

  drug trade

  Dulles, John Foster

  Eagleburger, Lawrence

  Eastern Europe, Soviet Empire in

  East Timor

  Ebihara, Daisuke

  economic colonialism

  economic crisis of 1997

  and American military bases

  as blowback

  causes of

  and China,

  and Indonesia,

  and Japan

  U.S. exploitation of

  economic inequality

  economic models. See capitalism,

  American model

  capitalism, Asian

  model

  Marxism

  “Economic Vision Statement” (APEC, 1993)

  Ecuador

  Egypt

  Eisenhower, Dwight D.

  El Salvador
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br />   “end of history”

  Equatorial Guinea

  Europe

  colonialism

  and oil

  European Union

  “excess capital”

  exchange rates

  fixed, vs. floating

  fixed, need for

  and Indonesia

  Japanese-U.S., manipulation of

  export-led growth

  “extrajudicial killings”

  “extraterritoriality”

  F–15 fighters

  F–16 fighters

  F–18 fighters

  F–22 fighters

  Fairbank, John

  Farah, Douglas

  Far Eastern Economic Review

  FBI

  financial systems, and crisis of 1997

  Ford, Gerald

  Ford Foundation

  Foreign Affairs

  “foreign internal defense” (FID)

  foreign investment

  in Asia

  in China

  in Russia

  foreign policy

  and arms sales

  and military

  Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963 (State Department)

  Foreign Service Journal

  Fourth U.N. Forum on Women (1995, Beijing)

  France

  arms sales

  Francis, Carolyn

  free-market capitalism. See capitalism, American model of

  Freedom of Information Act

  and private contractors

  freedom of speech and press

  FSX fighter

  Fuji bank

  Fujimori, Alberto

  Fukuyama, Francis

  Futenma Marine Corps air station

  Galbraith, Peter W.

  General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)

  genocide

  German Democratic Republic (East Germany)

  Germany

  American military bases in

  arms sales

  unified

  Gero, Erno

  Gibney, Frank

  Gigot, Paul

  Gill, Marcus

  Gilman, Benjamin

  Gingrich, Newt

  glasnost

  Gleysteen, William J.

  “globalization”

  and China policy

  and economic crisis of 1997

  and financial capitalism

  forced

  harm caused by

  and Japanese economy

  and labor

  and poverty

  Gorbachev, Mikhail

  Gore, Al

  Gottwald, Klement

  Great Depression

  Great Leap Forward

  Greece

  Green Berets

  Greenspan, Alan

  Gregg, Donald

  Greider, William

  Grenada

  Guangdong province

  Guatemala

  civil war of 1980s and 1990s

  coup of 1954

  and human rights

  Guidelines on U.S.–Japan Defense Cooperation (1997)

  H–2 rocket

  Haass, Richard N.

  Habibie, B. J.

  Hainan island

  Haiti

  Hale, David

  Hamilton, Alexander

  Harbury, Jennifer

  Harp, Rodrico

  Hashimoto, Ryutaro

  Hatano, Ken’ichi

  hedge funds

  Helms, Jesse

  Heryanto, Ariel

  Hicks, George

  Hinzpeter, Jurgen

  Hirohito, Emperor

  Hitler, Adolf

  Hobson, John

  Hodge, John

  Holbrooke, Richard

  Honduras

  Honecker, Erich

  Hong Kong

  export-led growth

  “honorable watch-dog” (gobanken-sama)

  Horowitz, Irving Louis

  Hosokawa, Morihiro

  “host-nation support”

  “hot money” or “gypsy capital”

  Hughes, Patrick

  human rights

  and arms sales

  and China

  and special forces

  Hungarian State Security Police (AVH)

  Hungarian Workers Party

  Hungary

  uprising of 1956

  Hussein, Saddam

  Hutus

  Iceland

  ideological rigidity

  ideology

  American free-market

  and capitalism vs. socialism

  and Third World

  imperialism

  defined

  and economic crises

  and finance capitalism

  see also American empire

  “imperial overstretch”

  defined

  and fall of Soviet Union

  U.S.

  incomes

  India

  Indonesia

  army and “red berets”

  capital flows

  dissidents

  and East Timor

  and economic crisis of 1997

  and export-led growth

  and JCET training

  revolt against Dutch

  revolution of 1965

  rioting of 1998

  U.S. exploitation of crisis in

  wages

  Indonesian banks

 

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