Chapter Eight: The Politics Of Superpower: Managed Democracy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface To The First Paperback Edition ix
4. Preface xvii
5. Acknowledgments xxv
6. Introduction To The 2017 Edition xxvii
7. Preview 1
8. Chapter One: Myth In The Making 4
9. Chapter Two: Totalitarianism’S Inversion: Beginnings Of The Imaginary Of A Permanent Global War 15
10. Chapter Three: Totalitarianism’S Inversion, Democracy’S Perversion 41
11. Chapter Four: The New World Of Terror 69
12. Chapter Five: The Utopian Theory Of Superpower: The Official Version 82
13. Chapter Six: The Dynamics Of Transformation 95
14. Chapter Seven: The Dynamics Of The Archaic 114
15. Chapter Eight: The Politics Of Superpower: Managed Democracy 131
16. Chapter Nine: Intellectual Elites Against Democracy 159
17. Chapter Ten: Domestic Politics In The Era Of Superpower And Empire 184
18. Chapter Eleven: Inverted Totalitarianism: Antecedents And Precedents 211
19. Chapter Twelve: Demotic Moments 238
20. Chapter Thirteen: Democracy’S Prospects: Looking Backwards 259
21. Notes 293
22. Index 339