Author: Noam Chomsky
Translator: Young-joon Jang
Publisher: Dureh
372 pages | 223*152mm
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About This Book
The Rule of Force in World Affairs
World-famous MIT linguist Chomsky has long kept up a second career as a cogent
voice of the hard left, excoriating American imperialism, critiquing blinkered
journalists and attacking global economic injustice. Chomsky's new work, a
collection of linked essays, comes in the wake of the Kosovo bombings and the
recent riots in East Timor. Its sardonic title recalls the argument that America
ought to defend the world against "rogue states" like Iraq and Libya. Chomsky
contends that the U.S. (and, sometimes, its allies) has itself behaved as the
biggest rogue state, ignoring international law and norms and acting only in the
richest Americans' interests. Chapters cover the former Yugoslavia, East Timor,
Cuba, and (a particularly powerful one) Third World debt. Chomsky includes
accounts of havoc that , he charges, the U.S. has wreaked (or helped wreak) in
poor countries, from overturned elections to mass slaughterAfrom Guatemala in
the 1950s to Sudan, Cuba, Mexico and Laos today. "Contempt for the rule of law,"
Chomsky contends, "is deeply rooted in U.S. practice and intellectual culture."
Chomsky's research can bring home disturbing issues that the mainstream media
miss (for example, that the Pentagon refuses to give up data that would make it
easier to clear dangerous landmines from old wars around the world). In other
places, Chomsky can seem shrill, quick to judge or obsessed with irrelevant
details: he spends a paragraph attacking Clinton's secretary of defense for
quoting Theodore Roosevelt ("this famous racist fanatic and raving jingoist").
Though not all his points hold equal power, Chomsky has delivered another
impressive argument that the U.S. flouts international law when it finds it
convenient to do so.
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