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Chomsky's Challenge to American Power : A Guide for the Critical Reader /

""Assesses Noam Chomsky as a political analyst and dissenting public intellectual. Examines most of Chomsky's major writings since the Vietnam War, on topics including America's other interventions in the Third World, the structure of power in American politics, the role of the m...

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Autor principal: Greco, Anthony F., 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Vietnam
  • America's War in Vietnam: A Synopsis
  • The Vietnam War According to Chomsky
  • Conclusions
  • Indochina Afterword: Chomsky and Cambodia
  • 2. Cold War Empire
  • American Foreign Policy during the Cold War: A Chomskian Overview
  • America's Third World Empire: How Evil? How American?
  • The American Empire: Some Observations
  • 3. Domestic Power and Global Purpose
  • The US Power Structure
  • Explaining America's Cold War
  • 4. Ideology, Illusion, and the Media
  • The Propaganda Model: The FrameworkCase Studies
  • The Propaganda Model in Perspective
  • The Role of Intellectuals
  • 5. America in the Post-Cold War World
  • Empire Redux
  • Interventions: Assets Turned Rogue
  • Interventions: Humanitarianism and Kosovo
  • Varieties of Terrorism
  • Hegemony and Its Discontents
  • Summary and Conclusions
  • How Chomsky Has Been Right
  • The Problems with Chomsky
  • The Chomsky Conundrum
  • Notes
  • Index