Eye opening account of US law-fare and mercantilism

In one way or another the US, like most other historical empires, has been pursuing mercantile policies for a most of its existence. Tariffs, technical barriers to trade and the impartial application of the power of international institutions like the IMF, World Bank, and others (mostly set-up by the US) serve as crude tools for the implementation of mercantile policies that were developed by empires, notably the British empire, long before the US took on the mantel of global leadership. The innovation that the US brought to this historical toolkit is the application the reserve currency status of the dollar to extend its jurisdiction & control whilst building legitimacy for its application of legal mechanisms by cloaking its actions in the promotion of an ostensibly superior moral world view of “democracy”, “justice”, “freedom” - all commonly summarized in the nebulous notion of a just “rules based world order”.
Combined with the selective use of military and covert operations, the awesome intelligence capabilities provided by modern technology, an aggressive legal system spearheading arbitrary international enforcement, and an executive branch applying sanctions on competitors, the entire power of the US state is being employed to further the economic interests of its elite whilst crushing its geopolitical and geoeconomic competitors.
The concept is not new but the methods are. Frederic Pierucci is an unfortunate victim of this new and updated system of coercion and he has done a grand job in bringing his experience to the world in this book. To get a further understanding of these processes I can recommend “Confessions of an Economic Hitman” for an understanding of the role played by international organizations as well as Philip Bobbit’s “Achilles Shield” for a theoretical grounding of our mercantile future of international relations.

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