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The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
Metropolitan Books
April 2006
320 pages
ISBN: 0805079122
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
The world's foremost critic of U.S. foreign policy exposes
the hollow promises of democracy in American actions
abroad--and at home The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to
intervene against "failed states" around the globe. In this
much anticipated sequel to his international bestseller
Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky turns the tables,
charging the United States with being a "failed state," and
thus a danger to its own people and the world. "Failed states" Chomsky writes, are those "that do not
protect their citizens from violence and perhaps even
destruction, that regard themselves as beyond the reach of
domestic or international law, and that suffer from a
‘democratic deficit,' having democratic forms but with
limited substance." Exploring recent U.S. foreign and
domestic policies, Chomsky assesses Washington's escalation
of the nuclear risk; the dangerous consequences of the
occupation of Iraq; and America's self-exemption from
international law. He also examines an American electoral
system that frustrates genuine political alternatives, thus
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, and
its policies and practices have recklessly placed the world
on the brink of disaster. Systematically dismantling
America's claim to being the world's arbiter of democracy,
Failed States is Chomsky's most focused--and
urgent--critique to date.
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