TY - GEN AU - Klein, Naomi TI - Shock doctrine : the rise of disaster capitalism SN - 9781846140280 U1 - 909.825 PY - 2007/// CY - New Delhi PB - Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd. N1 - CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Blank Is Beautiful: Three Decades of Erasing and Remaking the World 3 PART l : Two Doctor Shocks: Research and Development 23 1. The Torture Lab: Ewen Cameron, the CIA and the Maniacal Quest to Erase and Remake the Human Mind 25 2. The Other Doctor Shock: Milton Friedman and the Search for a Laissez-Faire Laboratory 49 PART 2 : The First Test: Birth Pangs 73 3. States of Shock: The Bloody Birth of the Counterrevolution 75 4. Cleaning the Slate: Terror Does Its Work 98 5. "Entirely Unrelated": How an Ideology Was Cleansed of Its Crimes 116 PART 3 : Surviving Democracy: Bombs Made of Laws 129 6. Saved by a War: Thatcherism and Its Useful Enemies 131 7. The New Doctor Shock: Economic Warfare Replaces Dictatorship 142 8. Crisis Works: The Packaging of Shock Therapy 155 PART 4 : Lost in Transition: While We Wept, While We Trembled, While We Danced 169 9. Slamming the Door on History: A Crisis in Poland, a Massacre in China 171 10. Democracy Born in Chains: South Africa's Constricted Freedom 194 11. Bonfire of a Young Democracy: Russia Chooses "The Pinochet Option" 218 12. The Capitalist Id: Russia and the New Era of the Boor Market 246 13. Let It Burn: The Looting of Asia and "The Fall of a Second Berlin Wall" 263 PART 5 : Shocking Times: The Rise of the Disaster Capitalism Complex 281 14. Shock Therapy in the U.S.A. : The Homeland Security Bubble 283 15. A Corporatist State: Removing the Revolving Door, Putting in an Archway 308 PART 6 : Iraq, Full Circle: Overshock 323 16. Erasing Iraq: In Search of a "Model" for the Middle East 325 17. Ideological Blowback: A Very Capitalist Disaster 341 18. Full Circle: From Blank Slate to Scorched Earth 360 PART 7 : The Movable Green Zone: Buffer Zones and Blast Walls 383 19. Blanking the Beach: "The Second Tsunami" 385 20. Disaster Apartheid: A World of Green Zones and Red Zones 406 21. Losing the Peace Incentive: Israel as Warning 423 CONCLUSION Shock Wears Off: The Rise of People's Reconstruction 443 Notes 467 Acknowledgments 527 Index 535 ER -