The infrastructural power of the military: The geoeconomic role of the US Army Corps of Engineers in the Arabian Peninsula/

LALEH Khalili

The infrastructural power of the military: The geoeconomic role of the US Army Corps of Engineers in the Arabian Peninsula/ Laleh Khalili - 2018

In analysing the role of the US in the global expansion of capitalist relations, most critical accounts see the US military's invasion and conquest of various states as paving the way for the arrival of US businesses and capitalist relations. However, beyond this somewhat simplified image, and even in peacetime, the US military has been a major geoeconomic actor that has wielded its infrastructural power via its US Army Corps of Engineers' overseas activities.


MIDDLE EAST --US ARMY
CAPITALISATION