James Garrison

PFC Bell, a newly-minted U.S. Army MP, quickly discovers that there's more than a war going on along QL 4, the main road from Saigon into the Mekong Delta. It's old-fashioned crime and corruption. He doesn't want to get involved, just serve out his time and go home, but life for an American MP in Vietnam in 1970 doesn't work that way. QL 4 leads Bell deep into a swamp of deception, mayhem, and death that insinuates its way both into towns the MPs patrol each day and into the old French villa where they live.

Ql 4

Murat Ates

Georg Stenger

Franz Martin Wimmer

Denken geschieht an einem Ort. Zugleich gilt es zu bedenken, was einen Ort zum ›Ort‹ werden lässt. Offenbar setzt also das Denken, wie auch jedes Sprechen und Handeln, einen Standort bzw. einen Standpunkt voraus, die selbst wiederum zum Thema philosophischer Betrachtung werden bzw. gemacht werden müssen. Dabei kann freilich "Ort" ein Mehrfaches bedeuten, etwa den Körper, die politische Schicht, den sozialen Status, das sozialisierte Geschlecht, die Sprache, kulturelle Geflechte, Lebenswelten und nicht zuletzt geographische Landschaften sowie geschichtliche Zeiträume. All dies sind – je nach Konstellation – Orte, die das Denken bedingen. Andererseits haben verschiedene Denkweisen in der Geschichte und Gegenwart immer wieder den Anspruch erhoben, universal zu agieren, d. h. in Unabhängigkeit von allen Milieus, Räumen, Zeiten, Sprachen, Geschlechtern usw. diese überschreiten zu können. Von dieser vielschichtigen Fragestellung ausgehend setzt der vorliegende Band diesseits inter- wie trans"kultureller" Selbstverständigungen an. Anstatt jedoch von einer antagonistischen Gegenüberstellung auszugehen, wonach man sich einer der beiden Diskurslandschaften – wie etwa Universalismus hier, Relativismus/Partikularismus dort – anzuschließen hätte, wird hier vielmehr die Abhängigkeit und Reziprozität beider betont. In diesem Sinne, und dies wäre der Leitfaden dieses Buches, bedeutet "Ort/e des Denkens" zugleich "Denken des Ortes wie der Orte".

Orte des Denkens / Places of Thinking

In America as Empire, Jim Garrison urges us to face up to the complexities and responsibilities inherent in the indisputable fact that America is now the world's single preeminent power. "America", Garrison writes, "has become what it was founded not to be: established as a haven for those fleeing the abuse of power, it has attained and now wields near absolute power. It has become an empire." Garrison traces the roots of the American empire to the very beginnings of the republic, in particular to the historic willingness of United States' to use military might in the defense of two consistent --- if sometimes contradictory --- foreign policy objectives: protection of American commercial interests and promotion of democracy. How long can the American empire last? Garrison looks at American history within the context of the rise and fall of empires and argues that the U. S. can gain important insights into durability from the Romans. He details the interplay between military power, political institutions, and legal structures that enabled the Roman empire at it's apogee to last for longer than America has as a country. But the real question is, what kind of empire can and should America be? As the sole superpower, America must lead in shaping a new global order, just as after World War II Roosevelt and Truman took the lead in shaping a new international order. That international order is now crumbling under the pressures of globalization, persistent poverty, terrorism and fundamentalism. Garrison outlines the kinds of cooperative global structures America must promote if its empire is to leave a lasting legacy of greatness. Garrison calls for Americans to consciously see themselves as a transitional empire, one whose task is not to dominate but to catalyze the next generation of global governance mechanisms that would make obsolete the need for empire. If this is done, America could be the final empire.

Global Leader or Rogue Power?

America As Empire

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.

Dryden and the Tradition of Panegyric

In this timely and telling book, Garrison argues that the preoccupation with military expansion is a fatal mistake, citing both FDR and Harry Truman as models for combining military power with institution building.

America as Empire: Global Leader Or Rogue Power? (Large Print 16pt)

2020 American Fiction Awards finalist for best Legal Thriller A new lawyer. A safecracker client. A gang of well-heeled enemies out to silence them. “Award-winning author, Jim Garrison delivers a smart, multi-layered plot in the legal thriller, The Safecracker.” —JOHNNIE BERNHARD, AUTHOR OF A GOOD GIRL, HOW WE CAME TO BE, AND SISTERS OF THE UNDERTOW Idealistic young lawyer Patricia Egan has a housemate she doesn’t like and a client she doesn’t want—a professional safecracker who seems far removed from the well-heeled civil clients her firm has been representing. But the safecracker and her former clients are closely linked in their respective criminal enterprises, something they want no one to discover, certainly not Patricia or her fellow lawyer and housemate, Jack Alexander. There’s a string of dead and maimed to prove it.

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