Contents:
Introduction: Back to the Future
Mission Implausible: Two War Strategy as "Globocop"
New Military Mega-Companies: Corporate Interests or National Interests
Pushing Weapons at Home:
The Star Wars Lobby
The Star Warriors: Who's Benefiting from National Missile Defense?
Fighting Back:
Promoting a Preventive Strategy
Main Components of a Preventive Strategy
Notes
Appendix: The Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex
Author: William D. Hartung
Editors: Tom Barry (IRC) and Martha Honey (IPS)
Research: Meena Bhandari (IPS)
Production: Grant Moser (IRC)
This report is based on an essay by William D. Hartung that will be published in a forthcoming book edited by Tom Barry and Martha Honey, codirectors of the Foreign Policy In Focus project, which is a joint effort of the Interhemispheric Resource Center and the Institute for Policy Studies. The new book, Global Affairs 2000: A New Foreign Policy Agenda, will be released in mid-1999. For more information about the Foreign Policy In Focus project's publications, see the back pages of this report or visit our website: http://www.fpif.org/
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Published by the Interhemispheric Resource Center and the Institute for Policy Studies.
ISBN 0-911213-66-X
Copyright © November 1998 by the Interhemispheric Resource Center and the Institute for Policy Studies
William Hartung is an analyst for Foreign Policy In Focus and the World Policy Institute.
