Deterring Democracy (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Deterring Democracy Sunday, August 16 2009.

• From World War II until the 1980s, the United States reigned supreme as both the economic and the military leader of the world. The major shifts in global politics that came about with the dismantling of the Eastern bloc have left the United States unchallenged as the preeminent military power, but American economic might has declined drastically in the face of competition, first from Germany and Japan ad more recently from newly prosperous countries elsewhere. In Deterring Democracy , the impassioned dissident intellectual Noam Chomsky points to the potentially catastrophic consequences of this new imbalance. Chomsky reveals a world in which the United States exploits its advantage ruthlessly to enforce its national interests--and in the process destroys weaker nations. The new world order (in which the New World give the orders) has arrived.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Deterring Democracy Saturday, July 25 2009.

• Added a contributor: Noam Chomsky: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Deterring Democracy Thursday, July 16 2009.

• THE great event of the current era is commonly taken to be the end of the Cold War, and the great question before us therefore is: What comes next?