Noam Chomsky

Deterring Democracy (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

From World War II until the 1980s, the United States reigned supreme as both the economic and the military 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 pre-eminent military power, but American economic might has declined drastically in the face of competition, first from Germany and Japan and more recently from the newly prosperous countries elsewhere.

In this book, Noam Chomsky points to the potentially catastrophic consequences of this imbalance. He reveals a world in which the United States exploits its advantage ruthlessly to enforce its national interests - and in the process destroys weaker nations.

Deterring Democracy offers a devastating analysis of American Imperialism, drawing alarming connections between its repression of information inside the US and its aggressive empire-building abroad.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781446475690
• Artikelnr.: 39224093

Autorenporträt

Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. A member of the American Academy of Science, he has published widely in both linguistics and current affairs. His previous books include At War with Asia, American Power and the New Mandarins, For Reasons of State, Peace in the Middle East?, Towards a New Cold War, Fateful Triangle: The U.S., Israel and the Palestinians, Pirates and Emperors, The Culture of Terrorism, Manufacturing Consent (with E. S. Herman), and Necessary Illusions.

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