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Alfred McCoy

Alfred W. McCoy, a TomDispatch regular, is the Harrington professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power. His newest book is To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change (Dispatch Books).

The Pentagon’s New Wonder Weapons for World Dominion

Or Buck Rogers in the 21st Century

By Alfred McCoy On September 10, 2017On May 15, 2021

Exploring the Shadows of America’s Security State

Or How I Learned Not to Love Big Brother

By Alfred McCoy On August 24, 2017On August 24, 2017

The Demolition of U.S. Global Power

Donald Trump’s Road to Debacle in the Greater Middle East

By Alfred McCoy On July 16, 2017On May 15, 2021

The Bloodstained Rise of Global Populism

A Political Movement’s Violent Pursuit of “Enemies”

By Alfred McCoy On April 2, 2017On May 15, 2021

How a Pink Flower Defeated the World’s Sole Superpower

America’s Opium War in Afghanistan

By Alfred McCoy On February 21, 2016On May 15, 2021

Grandmaster of the Great Game

Obama’s Geopolitical Strategy for Containing China

By Alfred McCoy On September 15, 2015On May 15, 2021

The Geopolitics of American Global Decline

Washington Versus China in the Twenty-First Century

By Alfred McCoy On June 7, 2015On June 7, 2015

Surveillance and Scandal

Time-Tested Weapons for U.S. Global Power

By Alfred McCoy On January 19, 2014On May 15, 2021

Beyond Bayonets and Battleships

Space Warfare and the Future of U.S. Global Power

By Alfred McCoy On November 8, 2012On November 8, 2012

Impunity at Home, Rendition Abroad

How Two Administrations and Both Parties Made Illegality the American Way of Life 

By Alfred McCoy On August 14, 2012On May 15, 2021

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

By Alfred McCoy On December 5, 2010On May 15, 2021

Alfred McCoy, Our Man in Kabul

By Alfred McCoy On April 15, 2010On November 3, 2020

Alfred McCoy, Afghanistan as a Drug War

By Alfred McCoy On March 30, 2010On February 17, 2021

Alfred McCoy, Surveillance State, U.S.A.

By Alfred McCoy On November 12, 2009On May 15, 2021

Alfred McCoy, Back to the Future in Torture Policy

By Alfred McCoy On June 7, 2009On February 17, 2021

Alfred McCoy on the CIA’s road to Abu Ghraib

By Alfred McCoy On September 9, 2004On November 17, 2010

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