Wars of Neoliberalism

The Political Economy of the War on Terror
A revealing analysis of the political economy of the US occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. The book sheds fresh light on the lucrative private contracts for reconstruction projects, largely unregulated and unsupervised, that contributed to the further degradation and immiseration of the occupied territories.
Initiated in response to the 9/11 attacks, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan formed part of the Bush Administrations War on Terror but they were also a strategic response to the United States’ long hegemonic decline. In its chaotic withdrawal some 20 years later, the US had accelerated the disorganization and chaos in the very societies it sought to pacify and rebuild.Whereas much has been written about the military campaigns, this book focuses on the occupations of Iraq (200311) and Afghanistan (200121) as part of the processes of global political economy. Private contracts for reconstruct