Alfred McCoy
Alfred W. McCoy, a TomDispatch regular, is the Harrington professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author most recently of In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power (Dispatch Books). His latest book (to be published in November by Dispatch Books) is To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change.
America’s Drug Wars
Fifty Years of Reinforcing Racism
The True Meaning of the Afghan “Withdrawal”
Will the Nightmare of Saigon’s Fall Return in Kabul?
Washington’s Delusion of Endless World Dominion
China and the U.S. Struggle over Eurasia, the Epicenter of World Power
While America Was Sleeping
Waking from a Four-Year Fever Dream to Find Global Power Gone
In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power
In a completely original analysis, prize-winning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America’s rise as a world power—from the 1890s through the Cold War—and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century through a fusion of cyberwar, space warfare, trade pacts, and military alliances. McCoy then analyzes the marquee instruments of US hegemony—covert… Read more