Chomsky and Dershowitz - On Endless War and the End of Civil Liberties

Informationen zum Autor Howard Friel is author of The Lomborg Deception: Setting the Record Straight about Global Warming. Klappentext ?Through the lens of a careful assessment of the political views of MITs Noam Chomsky and Harvards Alan Dershowitzthe two protagonists of a Cambridge-based feud over the past forty yearsauthor Howard Friel chronicles an American intellectual history from the U.S. war in Vietnam in the 1960s to the contemporary debate about the Israel-Palestine conflict. Major findings reveal the consistency of Chomskys principled support of international law, human rights, and civil liberties, and a reversal by Dershowitz from support in the 1960s to opposition of those legal standards today. Friels volume argues that a Chomskyan adherence by the United States to international law and human rights would reduce the threat of terrorism and preserve civil liberties, that the Dershowitz-backed war on terrorism increases the threat of terrorism and undermines civil liberties, and that the incremental but steady transition toward a preventive state threatens the permanent suspension of civil liberties in the United States.

Product details

• Authors: Howard Friel, Mr Howard Friel, Friel Howard
• Publisher: Interlink pub group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2013
• EAN: 9781566569743
• ISBN: 978-1-56656-974-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Political Ideologies, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, International Relations, Warfare & defence, Political science & theory, Terrorism, armed struggle, War Crimes, Warfare and defence, Political science and theory, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, Political ideologies and movements