Hegemony or Survival

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$13.00 $18.95 / Canada '/ CURRENT EVENTS / : - . "It is possible that, if the United States goes the way of nineteenth-century Britain, Chomsky's interpretation will be the standard among históriám a hundred years from now." - THE NEW YORKER AN IMMEDIATE NATIONAL BESTSELLER, HEGEMONY OR SURVIVAL DEMONSTRATES HOW, for more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of staking out the globe. Our leaders have shown themselves willing-as in the Cuban missile crisis-to follow the dream of dominance no matter how high the risks. World-renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky here investigates how we came to this perilous moment and why our rulers are willing to jeopardize the future of our species. With the striking logic that is his trademark, Chomsky tracks the US government's aggressive pursuit of "full spectrum dominance" and vividly lays out how the most recent manifestations of the politics of global control-from unilateralism to the... Tovább

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$13.00 $18.95 / Canada '/ CURRENT EVENTS / : - . "It is possible that, if the United States goes the way of nineteenth-century Britain, Chomsky's interpretation will be the standard among históriám a hundred years from now." - THE NEW YORKER AN IMMEDIATE NATIONAL BESTSELLER, HEGEMONY OR SURVIVAL DEMONSTRATES HOW, for more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of staking out the globe. Our leaders have shown themselves willing-as in the Cuban missile crisis-to follow the dream of dominance no matter how high the risks. World-renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky here investigates how we came to this perilous moment and why our rulers are willing to jeopardize the future of our species. With the striking logic that is his trademark, Chomsky tracks the US government's aggressive pursuit of "full spectrum dominance" and vividly lays out how the most recent manifestations of the politics of global control-from unilateralism to the dismantling of international agreements to state terrorism-cohere in a drive for hegemony that ultimately threatens our existence. Lucidly written, thoroughly documented, and featuring a new afterword about the war in Iraq, Hegemony or Survival is a definitive statement from one of today's most influential thinkers. "With relentless logic, Chomsky bids us to listen closely to what our leaders teli us- and to discern what they are leaving out____Agree with him or not, we lose out by not listening." -Business Week "If, for reasons of chance, or circumstance, (or sloth), you have to pick just one book on the subject of the American Empire, pick this one. It's the Full Monty. It's Chomsky at his best. Hegemony or Survival is necessary reading." -Arundhati Roy NOAM CHOMSKY is the author of numerous bestselling poiitical works, from American Power and the New Mandarins to 9-1 professor of linguistics and philosophy at MIT, he is widely credited with having revolutionized modern linguistics. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts. Vissza