title: Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (The American Empire Project)
author:  Noam Chomsky 
description: Noam Chomsky is considered the father of modern linguistics. In this richly detailed criticism of American foreign policy, he seeks to redefine many of the terms commonly used in the ongoing American war on terrorism. Surveying U.S. actions in Cuba, Nicaragua, Turkey, the Far East and elsewhere over the past half a century along with the modern American war in Iraq, Chomsky indicates that America is just as much a terrorist state as any other government or rogue organization. George W. Bush's 2003 invasion of Iraq drew worldwide criticism, in part because it seemed to present a new philosophy of pre-emptive war and an appearance of global empire building. But according to Chomsky, such has been the operating philosophy of American foreign policy for decades. Opponents of the Bush administration's tactics consistently point out how the American government supported Saddam Hussein for many years prior to the 1990 invasion of Kuwait (pictures of Donald Rumsfeld shaking Saddam's hand are easy to come by) as a means of pointing out how the United States is happy to fund despots when it's in American interests. But Chomsky, armed with extensive historical notation, takes this notion further, arguing how the repression of other nations' citizenry is, in fact, the very reason Americans support certain foreign leaders. The charges made throughout the book are severe, as are the dire consequences he posits if current trends are not reversed, and Chomsky is no more likely to make friends or gain supporters from the mainstream now than he's ever been. But <i>Hegemony or Survival</i> is relatively dispassionate. Instead of relying on camp or shock value or personal attacks as some of his contemporaries have done, Chomsky drives his well-supported points steadily forward in an earnest and highly readable style. <i>--John Moe</i>
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  Columbia University Press 
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  Copyright © 1994 by Noam Chomsky 
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  A note from the publisher: 
  This thought-provoking work is based upon a series of three lectures 
  given by Professor Chomsky as Charles Hedlund Distinguished Visiting 
  Professor at the American University in Cairo. It is published by arrange­
  ment with the American University in Cairo Press. 
  The publishing costs have been borne in part by a gift from Cortis� 
  Lamont, friend of the Columbia University Press. 
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 
  Chomsky, Noam. 
  World orders old and new I Noam Chomsky. 
  p. cm. 
  Based on three lectures (considerably expanded and updated) given at the 
  American University in Cairo, May 1993. 
  Includes bibliographical references and index. 
  ISBN 0-231-101 56-2 
  I. World politics-1 989-
  . 
  2. World politics-1945-
  3. Palestine­
  Politics and government