Noam Chomsky

Deterring Democracy

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Produktbeschreibung

In Deterring Democracy, the impassioned dissident intellectual Noam Chomsky describes a world in which the United States exploits its advantage ruthlessly to enforce its national interests-and in the process tramples democratic movements.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 140mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9798888901427
• Artikelnr.: 69680873

Autorenporträt

Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor (emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona. His work is widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics. Chomsky is the author of numerous best-selling political works, which have been translated into scores of languages. Recent books include What Kind of Creatures Are We?, as well as Optimism Over Despair, and Internationalism of Extinction.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Cold War: Fact and Fancy
2. The Home Front
3. The Global System
4. Problems of Population Control
5. The Post-Cold War Era
6. Nefarious Aggression
7. The Victors
8. The Agenda of the Doves: 1988
9. The Mortal Sin of Self-Defense
10. The Decline of the Democratic Ideal
11. Democracy in the Industrial Societies
12. Force and Opinion

Rezensionen

Offers a revelatory portrait of the US empire of the 1980s and '90s, an ugly side of America largely kept hidden from the public by a complacent media Publishers Weekly