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Rogue States
The Rule of Force in World Affairs
Noam Chomsky
Pages: 254ISBN: 0-89608-611-9
Format: paper
Release Date: 2000-01-01
This book is also available in cloth
In Rogue States, Noam Chomsky holds the world’s superpowers to their own standards of the rule of law—and finds them appallingly lacking. Described in a 1998 profile in the New York Times as "an exploder of received truths," Noam Chomsky is the world’s most informed, controversial, and articulate opponent of political hypocrisy and abuse of power.
Rogue States is the latest result of his tireless efforts to measure the world’s superpowers by their own professed standards and to hold them responsible for the indefensible actions they commit in the name of democracy and human rights. The United States and its allies come in for particular scrutiny for their numerous recent violations of the very international laws they claim to uphold, making them the real "rogue states" in the world today.
In analyzing the recent war in the Balkans, Chomsky challenges the legal and humanitarian arguments in favor of NATO’s aggression, instead calling attention to the West’s failure to support democratic movements in the region. Chomsky also turns his penetrating gaze toward US involvement in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Central America, relying on both historical context and recently released government documents to trace the paths of self-interest and domination that fueled these violent regional conflicts.
Throughout, Chomsky reveals the United States’ increasingly open dismissal of the United Nations and international legal precedent in justifying its motives and actions. As his analysis of US statecraft reveals, the rule of law has been reduced to a mere nuisance. Characteristically incisive, provocative, and rousing, Chomsky leaves no bombshell unexploded in his evaluation of the West’s shameless reliance on the rule of force today.
Table of Contents
1 Rogues’
Gallery: Who Qualifies?
2 Rogue States
3 Crisis
in the Balkans
4 East Timor
Retrospective
5 "Plan
Colombia"
6 Cuba
and the US Government: David vs. Goliath
7 Putting
on the Pressure: Latin America
8 Jubilee
2000
9 "Recovering
Rights": A Crooked Path
10 The United
States and the "Challenge of Universality"
11 The Legacy
of War
12 Millennium
Greetings
13 Power in
the Domestic Arena
14 Socioeconomic
Sovereignty
Noam Chomsky
Click here to view Noam Chomsky's full Author PageNoam Chomsky is a world-renowned linguist, scholar, and political analyst. Born on December 7, 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Chomsky became politically conscious at a very young age, writing his first political article, on the fight against fascism in Spain, when he was only ten years old.
His 1957 work Syntactic Structures revolutionized the field of linguistics, fundamentally changing the current understanding of language and mind. Chomsky joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1955, and in 1976 was appointed Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.
Chomsky has written and lectured extensively on linguistics, philosophy, international affairs, U.S. foreign policy, and other contemporary political issues. His essays have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Z Magazine, CAQ, and numerous political and scholarly publications.
Chomsky's groundbreaking work on Palestine and the Middle East, East Timor, the Gulf War, and the mass media have gained international attention. As evidence of his broad appeal and importance, he was the subject of the award-winning 1993 film “Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media,” and excerpts from his speeches have appeared on the b-side of a single by the band Bad Religion.
Chomsky books with South End Press include Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs, Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and Palestine and Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies among others.