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Failed states
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- Book Synopsis
- An erudite yet accessible examination of how democracy has failed in the US, from America's best-known voice of geopolitics, Noam Chomsky. The United States asserts the right to use military force against 'failed states' around the globe. But as Noam Chomsky argues in this devastating analysis, America shares features with many of the regimes it insists are failing and constitute a danger to their neighbours. Offering a comprehensive and radical examination of America past and present, Chomsky shows how this lone superpower - which topples foreign governments, invades states that threaten its interests and imposes sanctions on regimes it opposes - has stretched its own democratic institutions to breaking point. And how an America in crisis places the world ever closer to the brink of nuclear and environmental disaster. 'The mighty Chomsky lands some crunching punches. His analysis of U.S. double standards is spot-on' Observer
- About The Author
- Noam Chomsky is institute professor emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and lau-reate professor in the Agnes Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona. His work is widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics, and he is equally renowned for his incisive writings on global affairs and U.S. foreign policy. The single most cited and published living author, winner of numer-ous international awards, Chomsky has written over one hundred books, including the bestselling political works Hegemony or Survival, Failed States, and Who Rules the World?.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780141023038
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, (29 March 2007)
- Number of Pages
- 311
- Weight
- 223 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 196 x 129 x 20 mm
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