Obama Does Globalistan

by Pepe Escobar

This essay is a companion to my own Globalistan, published in early 2007, which I defined as a warped geopolitical travel book. I argued then that in a context of re-medievalization - the world fragmented into "stans" - we are now living an intestinal war, an undeclared global civil war. Borrowing from Zygmunt Bauman's concept of liquid modernity, I called it Liquid War - and not only because of the global scramble for "black gold" oil and "blue gold"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934840831
• ISBN13: 9781934840832
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Nimble Books
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 10.1"