02545cam a2200373 i 4500 19037063 20260422085151.0 160331s2016 nyu b 001 0 eng 2016010018 9781627793810 (hardcover) 19037063 DLC eng DLC rda AU pcc n-us--- Alfaisal Main Library JZ1480 .C477 2016 Chomsky, Noam, author. Who rules the world? / Noam Chomsky. First U.S. edition. New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, ©2016 307 pages 25 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "The world's leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the waning American Century, the nature of U.S. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rights In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky argues that the United States, through its military-first policies and its unstinting devotion to maintaining a world-spanning empire, is both risking catastrophe and wrecking the global commons. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from the expanding drone assassination program to the threat of nuclear warfare, as well as the flashpoints of Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Israel/Palestine, he offers unexpected and nuanced insights into the workings of imperial power on our increasingly chaotic planet. In the process, Chomsky provides a brilliant anatomy of just how U.S. elites have grown ever more insulated from any democratic constraints on their power. While the broader population is lulled into apathy--diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable--the corporations and the rich have increasingly been allowed to do as they please. Fierce, unsparing, and meticulously documented, Who Rules the World? delivers the indispensable understanding of the central conflicts and dangers of our time that we have come to expect from Chomsky"-- World politics 21st century. Power (Social sciences) POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General. bisacsh HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century. bisacsh United States Foreign relations 21st century. Print books. local 4 lcc BOOKS 608504 608504 0 0 lcc 0 0 AU AU GEN 2026-04-22 0 JZ1480 .C477 2016 AU00000000021442 2026-04-22 08:53:04 215.00 2026-04-22 BOOKS