From World War II until the 1980s, the United States reigned\nsupreme as both the economic and the military leader of the world.\nThe major shifts in global politics that came about with the\ndismantling of the Eastern bloc have left the United States\nunchallenged as the preeminent military power, but American\neconomic might has declined drastically in the face of competition,\nfirst from Germany and Japan ad more recently from newly prosperous\ncountries elsewhere. In_Deterring Democracy_, the impassioned\ndissident intellectual Noam Chomsky points to the potentially\ncatastrophic consequences of this new imbalance. Chomsky reveals a\nworld in which the United States exploits its advantage ruthlessly\nto enforce its national interests–and in the process destroys\nweaker nations. The new world order (in which the New World give\nthe orders) has arrived.

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