Failed States - The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy

Informationen zum Autor Noam Chomsky is institute professor emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and lau­reate 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 numer­ous international awards, Chomsky has written over one hundred books, including the bestselling political works Hegemony or Survival , Failed States , and Who Rules the World? . Klappentext 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 thus 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. Zusammenfassung The United States asserts the right to use military force against 'failed states' around the globe. Offering an examination of America, this title argues that America shares features with many of the regimes it insists are failing and constitute a danger to their neighbours.

Product details

• Authors: Noam Chomsky
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.03.2007
• EAN: 9780141023038
• ISBN: 978-0-14-102303-8
• No. of pages: 311
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; USA, Human Rights, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, HISTORY / Military / Nuclear Warfare, Political corruption, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, United States of America, USA, Political science and theory, Nuclear weapons, Human rights, civil rights, Corruption in politics, government and society