Perilous Power:The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy: Dialogues on Terror, Democracy, War, and Justice - Hardcover

Achcar, Gilbert; Chomsky, Noam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241143683 ISBN 13: 9780241143681

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, 2007

Synopsis

The volatile Middle East is a region of vast resources, frequent crises and long-standing conflicts, as well as a major source of international tensions and a key site of direct US intervention.

Noam Chomsky, the preeminent critic on US foreign policy, and Gilbert Achcar, a leading Middle East specialist, bring a keen understanding of the Middle East and the role of the US, covering such key topics as terrorism, fundamentalism, oil and democracy, as well as the war in Afghanistan, the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the origins of US foreign policy.

About this title

Review:

Chomsky is not only brilliant but heroic (Arundhati Roy)

[Chomsky is] an exploder of received truths (The New York Times)

About the Author:

Noam Chomsky is the bestselling author of over 100 influential political books, including Hegemony or Survival, Imperial Ambitions, Failed States, Interventions, What We Say Goes, Hopes and Prospects, Making the Future, On Anarchism, Masters of Mankind and Who Rules the World. He has also been the subject of numerous books of biography and interviews and has collaborated with journalists on books such as Perilous Power, Gaza in Crisis, and On Palestine.

Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor (emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0241143683
• ISBN 13: 9780241143681
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Shalom Stephen R.