World Orders, Old and New - Second Edition

by NoamChomsky (Author)

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  Paperback
  1997

  $4.18

  In this widely acclaimed study of global politics, Chomsky offers a devastating critique of conventional definitions of the `new world order'. It is, he argues, nothing more than an ingenious piece of `historical engineering', whereby the pretexts for the Cold War - nuclear threat, Eastern Bloc menace - have been deftly replaced by a new set of convenient justifications for a Western agenda that remains largely unchanged.
  
  Now with a new and extensive epilogue on the Middle East, World Orders Old And New is as relevant now as when it was first published.

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  Hardcover
  1994

  $3.18

  In this study of global politics, the author challenges conventional definitions of the New World Order , examining the acts of imperialism and economic manipulation which have produced the unbalanced world order of the 1990s. Based on three lectures given at the University of Cairo in 1993 - each considerably expanded and updated - the author begins with a reconsideration of the Cold War, revealing how it became a pretext for the USA to expand politically, economically and militarily under the guise of self-defence. The book also offers a new commentary on the Gulf War and the relationship between America and Britain and the enemy before, during and after hostilities. In a detailed analysis of the strategic manoeuvres between the West and the Third World, Chomsky concludes that George Bush's New World Order has become a domestic and international propaganda tool in the hands of the powerful. Containing a new epilogue for 1997, this work offers an assault on the legitimacy of the status quo, old and new.