1. The Empire Strikes a Match in a World Full of Oil (Xlibris Press, 2 nd ed 2011) Rediscovering the Rule of Law between Nations

2. A new book on International Affairs by Joel Clarke Gibbons Ph.D. Energy Economist: Ph.D. U. of Chicago Mathematician: Ph.D. Northwestern Physics: B.S with Honors Georgetown Finance Practitioner: Logistic Research & Trading Co, Chicago

3. Contents Introduction p. 13 Part 1Part 1: Thoughts on Empire p. 16 Chapter 1A New Empire for a New Century p. 18 Chapter 2 On the Absurdity of Spreading Democracy by the Sword p. 28 Chapter 3Thoughts on the New World Order p. 36 Chapter 4Case in Point: the British Empire p. 50 Chapter 5 Earlier Empires: The Sobering Example of Athenian Empire p. 70 Chapter 6Summation: Lessons from Empire p. 91 Part 2Part 2: Beginnings of Empire p. 97 Chapter 7Foundations of American Empire: Early History p. 99 Chapter 8The New Deal Revolution: Tax, Spend, and Elect p. 117 Chapter 91945: A New World Dawns p. 132 Chapter 10The Growth of American Military Hegemony p. 150

4. Part 3Part 3: The New World Order Revealed p. 192 Chapter 11The Imperial Age p. 167 Chapter 12Taking the Offensive: 1995 to 2001 p. 194 Chapter 13Where the Debris from the World Trade Towers Landed p. 205 Chapter 14The Home Front: Developments in America p. 228 Chapter 15Worldwide Recession p. 249 Part 4Part 4: Two Futures p. 262 Chapter 16Worldwide Conflict: Bringing the Match p. 264 Chapter 17Is Worldwide War Winnable? p. 292 Chapter 18 Law for Peace: a Common Law Basis for International Law p. 325 Chapter 19International Law and Natural Law p. 340 Appendix p. 358 Bibliography p. 366

5. On the Absurdity of Spreading Democracy by the Sword “Since for a small or developing nation democracy is so easily manipulated from outside, democracy is itself a ticking time bomb of external manipulation. Thus for the United States to announce a program to democratize everyone else, democracy itself becomes a fatal weakness for any nation that values its independence.”

6. On the Absurdity of Spreading Democracy by the Sword For America or Russia or any power to choose your leaders is not democracy, it is foreign control. The men and women they choose will be selected to promote American or Russian interests. The less they please the people, the more loyal the must be to us. We like that.

7. The New Deal Revolution: Tax, Spend, and Elect New Deal Innovations Unlimited Taxation 92% top rate from 1942 to 1962 Unlimited Borrowing It speaks for itself Unlimited Laws Procedural vs Substantive Due Process

8. The New Deal Revolution: Tax, Spend, and Elect The result is government that buys its legitimacy, and claims almost divine prerogatives that follow from seemingly divine capacity.

9. Worldwide Conflict: Bringing the Match Target Russia The recent statement of Russian Security Strategy Until 2020 adds ominously the following: [T]he main threat to Russia’s national security is the policy pursued by certain leading states, which is aimed at attaining military superiority over Russia, in the first place in strategic nuclear forces.

10. Worldwide Conflict: Bringing the Match Professor Theodore Postol of MIT, who is among other things a consultant to the Pentagon on missile technology. The title of a recent article of his on the subject of the missiles in Poland tells enough of the story. It is entitled “The Target Is Russia.” In this and other essays he explains how ineffective antimissiles really are. Published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Theodore Postol, “The Target is Russia,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, March 1, 2000.

11. Worldwide Conflict: Bringing the Match Target China Now that China has for the first time a naval dimension, control of Taiwan is essential. As long as Taiwan is in hostile hands, China’s coast is divided north and south, and whoever has access to Taiwan can launch an attack on the coast from very short range. China has no navy of consequence unless they control Taiwan, and instead they have a deep vulnerability from the sea at that point. Not having command of Taiwan, it would perhaps be more accurate to say that China does not have a navy; she has two half navies.

12. Law for Peace: a Common Law Basis for International Law Is there another way? The Answer: a rule of law The Problem: whose law? An Answer: the Common Law

13. Law for Peace: a Common Law Basis for International Law Essentials of a legal system: » Courts » Judges » Sheriffs and » Code of Law