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FAILED STATES - NOAM CHOMSKY KARTONIERT (TB)

It's hard to imagine any American reading this book and not seeing his country in a new  and
deeply troubling  light.-The New York Times Book Review The United States has repeatedly
asserted its right to intervene militarily against failed states around the globe. In this
much-anticipated follow-up to his international bestseller Hegemony or Survival  Noam Chomsky
turns the tables  showing how the United States itself shares features with other failed
states-suffering from a severe democratic deficit  eschewing domestic and international law 
and adopting policies that increasingly endanger its own citizens and the world. Exploring the
latest developments in U.S. foreign and domestic policy  Chomsky reveals Washington's plans to
further militarize the planet  greatly increasing the risks of nuclear war. He also assesses
the dangerous consequences of the occupation of Iraq  documents Washington's self-exemption
from international norms  including the Geneva conventions and the Kyoto Protocol  and examines
how the U.S. electoral system is designed to eliminate genuine political alternatives  impeding
any meaningful democracy. Forceful  lucid  and meticulously documented  Failed States offers a
comprehensive analysis of a global superpower that has long claimed the right to reshape other
nations while its own democratic institutions are in severe crisis. Systematically dismantling
the United States' pretense of being the world's arbiter of democracy  Failed States is
Chomsky's most focused-and urgent-critique to date.

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