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A Socio-Historical Analysis of U.S. State Terrorism from 1948 to 2008

Malone, Chad Allen
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3480-2701
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1216592463

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2008, Master of Arts, University of Toledo, Sociology.
This thesis is a critical examination of U.S. foreign intervention from 1948 to 2008. Using a comparative/historical analysis of seven cases – Iran, Guatemala, Indonesia, Chile, Nicaragua, Panama, and Iraq – this study finds patterns of U.S. state/state-sponsored terror and intervention. Using world-system theory and G. William Domhoff’s class-domination theory of power, this study explains how and why the U.S. government, the U.S. military, the CIA, and U.S. corporations participate in economically motivated terrorist acts to support the capitalist mode of production, U.S. investments, and access to markets and natural resources. Finally, this study reveals patterns (in addition to the use of terror) that the U.S. government follows while intervening in the affairs of foreign nations.
Elias Nigem (Committee Chair)
Dwight Haase (Committee Member)
Marietta Morrissey (Committee Member)
225 p.
American History; Economics; European History; History; International Law; International Relations; Labor Economics; Latin American History; Middle Eastern History; Military History; Petroleum Production; Political Science; Social Research; Social Structure; Sociology
terrorism; U.S. state terrorism; elite theory; world-system theory; state-sponsored terrorism; CIA; U.S. military; U.S. foreign policy; assassinations; Arbenz; Mossadeq; Sukarno; Allende; Noriega; Hussein; U.S. intervention; 9/11; WTC; political terrorism

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  • Malone, C. A. (2008). A Socio-Historical Analysis of U.S. State Terrorism from 1948 to 2008 [Master's thesis, University of Toledo]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1216592463

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Malone, Chad. A Socio-Historical Analysis of U.S. State Terrorism from 1948 to 2008. 2008. University of Toledo, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1216592463.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Malone, Chad. "A Socio-Historical Analysis of U.S. State Terrorism from 1948 to 2008." Master's thesis, University of Toledo, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1216592463

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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