Failed States by Noam Chomsky
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
Noam Chomsky is a political theorist, activist and linguist. Chomsky is internationally recognised as one of the most critically engaged public intellectuals alive today. He is the author of numerous bestselling political works, which have been translated into scores of languages worldwide. Among the books are Optimism Over Despair, On Palestine, The Precipice, Chronicles of Dissent, On Anarchism and Hegemony or Survival.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780141023038 |
| ISBN 10 | 0141023031 |
| Title | Failed States |
| Author | Noam Chomsky |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2007-03-29 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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