Synopses & Reviews
This ?warped? travel book remixes three main themes: globalization, energy wars and the Pentagon's Long War, originally packaged as the ?war on terror.? You?re going to revisit the asymmetrical wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. You?re going to crisscross the Islamic world. You?re going to follow a lot of pipelines. You?ll be acquainted with the Iran the next war will probably hit. You?ll see how national resistance wars have nothing to do with ?terrorism.? You?ll be confronted over and over again with ?strategic competitor? Asia?where the future of the 21st Century is being played out. You?re going to revisit how, where and who profits from economic globalization and especially war corporatism. You?ll see how and where possible New Orders are emerging, and Old Orders disintegrating. And you will finish the pilgrimage back in the middle of a?predictable?global war of the privileged few against the excluded many.
Synopsis
Globalistan weaves three parallel and intersecting themes: globalization, energy wars and the Long War. It shows how globalization is not proceeding according to the myth of "everyone profits": instead, it is fragmenting the world into even more explosive inequality, into "stans" - some stans configured as fortresses, some stans at war with others. Energy wars, and the multiple intersections of globalization and war, only increase the polarization. Globalistan argues that the world is being dissolved into Liquid War - a natural consequence of "liquid modernity," a concept formulated by Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. The book is 80% based on reportage - from China to Central Asia and Russia; before, during and after the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; in Iran and in the Middle East; in Western Europe, Western Africa and South America. It is also an Atlas - with maps - of the world in conflict.