Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 311
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0195650514
Description
In this remarkable study of global politics, Noam Chomsky offers a devastating critique of conventional definitions of the New World Order, so enthusiastically proclaimed by the United States.
It is, he posits, nothing more than an ingenious piece of 'historical engineering' whereby earlier pretexts for the Cold War have been deftly replaced by a new set of justifications for a largely unchanged Western agenda.
This work is an incisive assault on the legitimacy of the status quo in world politics. This book will interest students of political science, international studies and history.
COMMENT:
A refreshingly instructive book . . Chomsky is up-to-date in his understanding of what has been happening around the world. Hardly anyone can match his range of knowledge of current affairs.
- - The Hindu
Contents
Preface
MARCHING IN PLACE
The Cold War and Population Control
New World Orders
A Test Case: Iraq and the West
The Cold War Reconsidered
North-South/East-West
THE POLITICAL-ECONOMIC ORDER
Securing the Home Front
Some Lessons of History
The Government of the World
The Balance Sheet
Looking Ahead
The Contours of the New World Order
HISTORY’S GREATEST PRIZE
Updating the Monroe Doctrine
Containing the Internal Enemy
The Structure of Power
The Regional Actors
Seeking Peace: Stage One
Seeking Peace: The Interests of the Actors
Seeking Peace: The Recent Phase
Conquering History
The Berlin wall Falls Again
After the Agreement
Notes to Chapter 1
Notes to Chapter 2
Notes to Chapter 3
Index