Deterring Democracy
“A volatile, serious contribution to the debate over American's role as the globe's sole remaining superpower.” —San Francisco Chronicle

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 preeminent military power, but American economic might has declined 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 give the orders) has arrived.

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Deterring Democracy
“A volatile, serious contribution to the debate over American's role as the globe's sole remaining superpower.” —San Francisco Chronicle

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 preeminent military power, but American economic might has declined 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 give the orders) has arrived.

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Deterring Democracy

Deterring Democracy

by Noam Chomsky
Deterring Democracy

Deterring Democracy

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“A volatile, serious contribution to the debate over American's role as the globe's sole remaining superpower.” —San Francisco Chronicle

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 preeminent military power, but American economic might has declined 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 give the orders) has arrived.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781466801530
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date: 04/06/1992
Sold by: Macmillan
Format: eBook
Pages: 424
File size: 591 KB

About the Author

About The Author
Noam Chomsky is the author of numerous bestselling political works, including Hegemony or Survival and Failed States. A laureate professor at the University of Arizona and professor emeritus of linguistics and philosophy at MIT, he is widely credited with having revolutionized modern linguistics. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Table of Contents

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

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