Hegemony or Survival
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Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (ISBN 0-8050-7400-7), published November 2003, is a book by Noam Chomsky, a macroscopic view of United States foreign policy from World War II to the post-Iraq War reconstruction. The central focus of the book (as with many of Chomsky's political works), is the examination of the United States' political, military and economic motives, in comparison —often in sharp contrast— to its outward rhetorical support for democracy, the Middle-East peace process, free trade, and human rights. There is an examination of the differences between positions taken by the US government and the people of the world regarding a proposed invasion of Iraq. It also examines the doctrinal thinking of the Establishment in the United Kingdom and the US, such as in regard to propaganda use, centralised decision making and imperialism of Western powers from recent American invasions to the European empires.[1]
The book was recommended by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in a speech before the UN General Assembly in September 2006. Sales of the book surged, its rank on Amazon.com rising to #1 on paperback and #6 hardcover in only a few days.[2][3] [4]
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- ^ Piyush Mathur's review of the book
- ^ U.S. Best Seller, Thanks to Rave by Latin Leftist. New York Times, September 23, 2006
- ^ Prensa Latina article Chavez Gives Chomsky Book A Big Boost says rising from 160,772th to seventh place
- ^ Hugo Chavez's Speech to the UN on September 20, 2006
[edit] Further reading
| Noam Chomsky |
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| Bibliography (incomplete) |
| Linguistics: Syntactic Structures (1957) • Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1965) • The Sound Pattern of English (1968) • The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory (1975) • Lectures on Government and Binding (1981) • The Minimalist Program (1995) |
| Politics: The Responsibility of Intellectuals (1967) • American Power and the New Mandarins • Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship • The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians (1983) • Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (with Edward Herman, 1988) • Necessary Illusions (1989) • Deterring Democracy (1992) • Class Warfare (1996) • Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (2003) • Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (2006) |
| Filmography |
| Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992) • Last Party 2000 (2001) • Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times (2002) • Distorted Morality — America's War On Terror? (2003) • Noam Chomsky: Rebel Without a Pause (TV, 2003) • The Corporation (2003) • Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land (2004) |
