The myth of American idealism : how US foreign policy endangers the world
Chomsky, Noam2024
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From one of the world's most prominent thinkers comes an urgent warning of the threat that US power poses to humanity's future The land of the free. The home of the brave. But what has America achieved in the aim of 'spreading democracy' -- except wreak havoc across the globe and establish a reckless foreign policy that serves the interest of few and has endangered all too many? In this timely book, Noam Chomsky writing with Nathan J. Robinson, vividly traces America's pursuit of global domination, offering an incisive critique of the self-serving myths that dominant elites in the United States continue to push. Offering penetrating accounts of Washington's role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, they examine how interventions such as these have been justified with noble stories about humanitarian missions and benevolent intentions but are now driving us closer to wars with Russia and China. At once thorough and devastating, urgent and provocative, The Myth of American Idealism offers a highly readable entry to the conclusions Noam Chomsky has come to after a lifetime of thought and activism.
Main title:
The myth of American idealism : how US foreign policy endangers the world / Noam Chomsky and Nathan J. Robinson.
Author:
Chomsky, Noam, authorRobinson, Nathan J., author
Imprint:
London : Hamish Hamilton, 2024.©2024
Collation:
xiii, 400 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Confronting "successful defiance" : disciplining the Global SouthThe war on Southeast Asia : Vietnam/Laos/Cambodia9/11 and the wrecking of AfghanistanIraq : the crime of the centuryThe myth of American idealismThe U.S., Israel, and PalestineThe great China threatNATO and Russia after the Cold WarA world in peril : the threats of nuclear war and climate catastropheThe domestic roots of foreign policy : serving the "national interest"Our "rules-based" order : the application of international lawHow mythologies are manufactured : propaganda and the public mindConclusion : hegemony or survival?
ISBN:
97802417008849780241700884
Dewey class:
327.73
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
565985
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumaris Library | Adult Non Fiction - Society and Beliefs | 327.73 CHO | Available |