Force Multipliers by Maximilian Forte
In the drive to accumulate ever more global power for the US state and its allies, both political and corporate, the quest for totalization confronts the challenge of overreach. To operate using smaller efforts to carry larger loads, US strategists have devised what they call force multipliers. Force multiplication is about leverage using partners and proxies in an expanding network. Forces are conceptualized in multi-dimensional terms. Anything in the world of cultural systems, social relationships, and material production can become force multipliers for imperialism, Chapters in this volume present diverse examples of force multiplication, ranging from Plan Colombia to Bulgarian membership in NATO and the US-Israeli relationship, from the New Alliance for Food Security to charitable aid and the control of migration, to the management of secrecy.Maximilian Forte is an anthropology associate professor at Concordia University in Montreal. Indigenous Cosmopolitans, Indigenous Revival in the Present, and Ruins of Absence, Presence of Caribs: (Post) Colonial Representations of Aboriginality in Trinidad and Tobago are among his works. He currently resides in Montreal.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780986802164 |
| ISBN 10 | 0986802166 |
| Title | Force Multipliers |
| Author | Maximilian Forte |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Alert Press |
| Year published | 2015-09-26 |
| Number of pages | 242 |
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