Deterring Democracy

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From World War II undl the 1980s, the United States reigned supreme as both the economic and the miHtary leader of the world. The major shifts in global politics that came about with the dismantling of the Eastern bloc have left the United States unchallenged as the preeminent military power, but American economic might has decHned drastically in the face of competition, first from Germany and Japan and more recently from newly prosperous countries elsewhere. In Deterring Democracy, the impassioned dissident intellectual Noam Chomsky points to the potentially catastrophic consequences of this new imbalance. Chomsky reveals a world in which the United States exploits its advantage ruthlessly to enforce its national interests—and in the process destroys weaker nations. The new world order (in which the New World gives the orders) has arrived.
"A volatile, serious contribution to the debate over America's role as the globe's sole remaining superpower." —San Francisco Chronicle... Tovább

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From World War II undl the 1980s, the United States reigned supreme as both the economic and the miHtary leader of the world. The major shifts in global politics that came about with the dismantling of the Eastern bloc have left the United States unchallenged as the preeminent military power, but American economic might has decHned drastically in the face of competition, first from Germany and Japan and more recently from newly prosperous countries elsewhere. In Deterring Democracy, the impassioned dissident intellectual Noam Chomsky points to the potentially catastrophic consequences of this new imbalance. Chomsky reveals a world in which the United States exploits its advantage ruthlessly to enforce its national interests—and in the process destroys weaker nations. The new world order (in which the New World gives the orders) has arrived.
"A volatile, serious contribution to the debate over America's role as the globe's sole remaining superpower." —San Francisco Chronicle
"Chomsky is the Left's answer to William F. Buckley. Deterring Democracy can sparkle with inspiration." —Los Angeles Times
"[Offers] a deepened understanding of the dynamics of global politics before, during, and after the Cold War A compendious and thought-provoking work." —The New Statesman
"Noam Chomsky is a major scholarly resource. Not to have read [him] is to court genuine ignorance." —The Nation
noam chomsky, the Ferrai P. Ward Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the author of many books on both language and politics, including most recently Rethinking Camelot: John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture-, Language and Thought, and World Orders, Old and New. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts. Vissza