AMERICA'S QUEST FOR SUPREMACY AND THE THIRD WORLD A GRAMSCIAN ANALYSISPDF电子书下载

Introduction 1

Notes 9

PART I: IDEOLOGY 11

1 Gramsci’s understanding of ideology 13

Gramsci’s critique 13

Ideology as worldview and political force 16

Liberalism as ideology 25

Toward applying Gramsci’s concepts 29

Notes 30

2 Elements of common sense in America 35

Denominational religion: American destiny, isolationism, evangelism, and crusaderism 37

Liberalism: competitive individualism, property, and the market 44

Faith in science 48

Elements of contradictory consciousnesss in America 51

Notes 52

3 Ideology and American foreign policy 58

American destiny and the legitimation of American foreign policy 58

The United States as a minor power 60

The United States as a great power 66

The troubled superpower 70

Notes 72

4 The case of foreign assistance 75

Philosophical perspectives on American aid policy 75

The changing mix of motivations for American aid 80

Conflicting ideologies as constraints on American aid policy 92

Notes 94

5 Reagan and American common sense 97

Understanding Reagan’s ascendancy 98

Reagan as an intellectual 99

Reagan and old-fashioned liberalism 102

Reagan and the religious 103

Reagan’s faith in science 105

Was there an alternative? 106

Ideology: summary and conclusion 111

Notes 113

PART II: SUPREMACY 115

6 Gramsci’s understanding of supremacy 117

Gramsci on hegemony 117

Gramsci on supremacy 126

Toward applying Gramsci’s concepts 134

Notes 134

7 The Third World and the challenge to American supremacy 138

America’s historical bloc 139

The significance of the economic growth of Europe and Japan 141

The Third World and the new US demands on its allies 142

America’s inability to shield allies from the oil shocks 145

America’s failure to respond to the New International Economic Order 145

The failure to quiet the Third World with economic development or force 147

The failure of the alternative bloc’s leadership 149

Notes 151

8 Force and consensus in the world economy 154

Reagan’s domestic economic policy mix 156

Force in the world economy 160

Hegemony and domination in the world economy 171

Notes 175

9 Force and consensus in international civil society 179

The rhetorical value of the military 180

Force in international civil society 182

International civil society and attempts to extend hegemony to the Third World 189

Supremacy: summary and conclusion 197

Beyond American common sense 199

Notes 200

Index 203